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Dead Humpback Whale Washes Up At Cupsogue Beach In Westhampton Sunday

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A 37-foot

A 37-foot

female

female

humpback whale washed up at Cupsogue County Park on Sunday. DANA SHAW

humpback whale washed up at Cupsogue County Park on Sunday. DANA SHAW

A 37-foot

A 37-foot

female

female

authorMichael Wright on May 5, 2019

UPDATE: 6:30 p.m. Sunday

The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society will conduct a necropsy on the dead whale on Monday and is currently coordinating with municipal officials to for heavy equipment to remove the whale from the beach.

ORIGINAL STORY:

A 37-foot humback whale washed ashore dead at Cupsogue Beach in West Hampton Dunes on Sunday morning.

Marine biologists from the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society have examined the whale and said it is a female and shows no exterior signs of serious injury.

Female humpback whales can grow to more than 50 feet in length and weigh more than 30 tons. Humpbacks are one of the most common whale species to roam the waters off Long Island and are easily identifiable by their long, black and white pectoral fins.

A spokesperson for the AMCS said that the whale is the first large whale to wash up in New York this year.

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