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(04/04/05) SOUTHAMPTON - Residents on the East End got a real life lesson in marine sciences Sunday when a whale washed ashore on a Southampton beach.
Experts from the Riverhead Foundation say the adult female was dead before she washed up on shore east of the Shinnecock Inlet. Marine biologists say the 60-foot, 60-ton finback whale is in good shape so they will have to do an autopsy, called a necropsy, to figure out what killed it.
Marine biologists will have to perform the necropsy on the beach because the whale is too heavy too move. Before the whale’s body parts are buried on the beach, the Shinnecock Nation wants part of the whale for its cultural center. However, since federal law protects the whale, the Shinnecock Nation needs permission to keep part of it from state and federal wildlife agencies.
Originally posted by Croat56
Wow and I thought nothing interesting happend in here.
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Originally posted by MiTo
This kind of things didn't happen in the past?
Originally posted by Aelita
By the way, greetings to my fellow Lond Islanders on this board!
Originally posted by justme1640
It's on Montauk Highway - just east of Southampton College -- and a little before the Shinnecock Smoke Shop. I haven't been in the museum yet -- it just partially opened last fall I believe - but they have been building it for a few years. Have you been to the Pow Wow at all -- if so it is on one of the entrance roads to where the Pow Wow takes place. I would call if you were coming out -- to be sure it is open on the day you are coming.
Originally posted by Croat56
Originally posted by MiTo
This kind of things didn't happen in the past?
They probably did happen, but not sence Ive been here. Did you see the size of that whale! DAM!