A dead humpback whale washed ashore on a beach in Half Moon Bay Sunday, drawing a crowd of onlookers angling to get a close-up view.
The Marine Mammal Center said Monday its scientists suspect blunt force trauma from a ship strike is the likely cause of the whale's death.
"This humpback whale had an extensive contusion over her right chest area, a fractured first cervical vertebra and its skull was dislocated from the spinal column," said the center's Director of Pathology Dr. Pádraig Duignan in a press statement.
Humpback whales frequent the California coast to feed during the summer and fall months before migrating south to their winter calving and mating grounds off the coast of Mexico. The mammal center said there have been 10 whale deaths in Bay Area waters in 2022; seven gray whales and 3 humpback whales. Four of them were attributed to ship strikes and four others were undetermined. One died of malnutrition and another died from a suspected orca attack.Thanks for reading CBS NEWS.Please enter valid email address to continue
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