Scientists mystified by unusual strandings of large sea creatures on West Coast — TV: 'In 3 weeks, 5 dead whales have now beached along the Northern California coast' — 'It’s totally something new, something strange'… 'This is kind of eerie, what are the odds of two dead whales in same place?' (VIDEO)
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NBC Bay Area, May 5, 2015: The 32-ft humpback is only a 5 minute walk from the decomposing sperm whale… Witness: “This is totally something new, something 
strange.” The Marine Mammal Center calls the beached whales a coincidence [and that it's] an expected spot for marine life to wash up… But for a small crowd on the beach, the whale was anything but expected. Witness: “I’ve never seen this before in my whole life.”
KTVU, May 5, 2015: Anchor: Yet another dead whale was discovered today [at] almost the exact same spot where another huge whale washed ashore… Reporter: In 3 weeks, 5 dead whales have now beached along the Northern California coast.
KRON, May 6, 2015: Scientists conducted a necropsy on the 42-foot adult female humpback… if the whale had been struck by a ship, the scientists would have expected to see more broken ribs, so the exact cause of death remains unknown…
NBC Bay Area, May 5, 2015: John Valentini, 74 [said] “I have no idea what’s going on.” Sue Pemberton with the California Academy of Sciences [said] she doesn’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with the ocean, or that there is an epidemic of dead whales… Scientists still don’t know what killed the adult sperm whale [from April]… the Marine Mammal Center… has responded to 21 humpback whales and 17 sperm whales that washed up… in its 40-year history.
Press Democrat: Apr 20, 2015: A rare stranding of a 26-foot-long killer whale… the third cetacean to become stranded along the Northern California coast in less than a week… a common dolphin [was] found dying early last week… [It’s] just the sixth time in 40 years that the center has responded to a call about a stranded orca, [a Marine Mammal Center official] said.
San Jose Mercury News, Apr 22, 2015: Stranded killer whale mystifies scientists
CBS Bay Area, May 5, 2015: Fifth Dead Whale In 3 Weeks Washes Ashore NorCal Beach… two whale strandings occurred on the same beach… a killer whale also beached [in a] rare occurrence… April 24, two gray whale carcasses washed up on a Santa Cruz County beach.
KCRA, Mar 6, 2015: Massive Humpback whale washes ashore in Santa Cruz County
Dolf DeJong, vice president at Vancouver Aquarium, May 4, 2015: Grey Whale Washes Up On [Vancouver Island]… a dead marine mammal on shore is not a frequent occurrence… This was the first dead whale I had ever seen [and it] died far too early… we do not know the cause…
Xinhua, May 8, 2015: Workers bury a gray whale at the seashore [10 miles from San Diego]
Watch News Reports: NBC Bay Area | KTVU
Published: May 11th, 2015 at 2:40 pm ETBy ENENews |