Whale Killed by Ship Fifth To Wash Up in San Francisco Waters in a Month
On 4/26/21 at 11:33 AM EDT
An endangered whale that washed up on a San Francisco shore last week probably died after being hit by a ship, researchers have concluded. It was the fifth whale death in the area in the past month.
The dead fin whale was first spotted at sea on Friday, April 23, by the U.S. Coast Guard. It landed near Fort Funston later that evening.
The cause of death was not immediately clear, but researchers from The Marine Mammal Center at the California Academy of Sciences and U.C. Santa Cruz said over the weekend the animal had suffered trauma to the neck, including bruising and bleeding to the muscle surrounding neck vertebrae, according to CBS Local.
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