Malibu Tempers Fray As Fin Whale Carcass Rots On Beach

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Point Dume, California. Photo source: ©© Heal The Bay

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It washed into Malibu magnificent and macabre, a gleaming, lifeless fin whale. But after just five days on a beach favoured by Hollywood celebrities, it as is if a meat grinder had shredded Moby-Dick.

The smooth bluish-grey blubber which glistened on Monday, drawing crowds of awed onlookers to Little Dume beach, was by Friday a bleached carcass that had been ravaged by scientists, birds, insects, sun and surf…

Read Full Article, Guardian UK

Dead Whale on Malibu Beach, ABC News
Los Angeles County Officials say they are planning how to dispose of a decomposing whale at a Malibu, Calif., beach as soon as the low tide begins around Dec. 10.

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