Crews cut up, bury whale
By KVAL.com StaffWARNING! GRAPHIC CONTENT: Do not click on the video icon above if you are sensitive to blood and guts or don't want to watch raw footage from the effort to bury the whale. Crews had to cut up the whale before pushing it into a hole in the sand to be buried. FLORENCE, Ore. -- A whale first spotted Friday fighting for its life in the surf north of Florence beached itself on Saturday near Heceta Head and the Sea Lion Caves. Marine biologists studied the whale Sunday for clues to why it died. After initial guesses Friday that the whale was a humpback, biologists suspected it was a rare sei whale. Biologists now believe it was a fin whale. If you saw the whale and took photos or videos, post them to KVAL.com. A YouNews reporter helped break the news Saturday that the whale had beached itself. On Monday, crews buried the whale in the sand. Highlights of KVAL.com coverage of the whale, in reverse chronological order:
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