Two whales wash up on East Hampton beaches
Photo credit: Gordon M. Grant | A large 50-to-60-foot whale, believed to be a humpback, washed up along the ocean beach in Amagansett Sunday morning, just east of the Windward Shores condominium complex on the Napeague Stretch. The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation is responding to assess the whale. (Jan. 13, 2013)
Live dolphin washes ashore at W. Gilgo Beach
Beached whale in East Hampton photos
Two whales -- one dead and one later euthanized -- washed up on separate stretches of East Hampton beaches Sunday, just hours apart from one another.
Scientists with the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation are trying to determine the cause of death for a 59-foot-long female finback whale discovered in Napeague, and a 5-foot-long juvenile pygmy sperm whale found in Amagansett,...
