Scientist: Trauma may have killed whale
Photo credit: Gordon M. Grant | Members of The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation perform a necropsy on a dead whale that washed up on the ocean beach in Amagansett. (Jan. 14, 2013)
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A 58-foot female finback whale that washed up dead along an East Hampton beach Sunday may have died from blunt force trauma caused by hitting a vessel, according to an examination conducted Monday by marine biologists.
"There is evidence that human interaction may have been a contributory factor to her death," said Robert DiGiovanni, executive director and senior scientist with The Riverhead...
