Mediapixs | Drone Captures Beached Whale at Newbiggin by the Sea, Northumberland @mediapixs4172 | Uploaded October 2019 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
The sad remains of a 30 Ton Sperm Whale where washed up near Sandy Bay near Newbiggin by the Sea, Northumberland. It is very rare to see a Sperm Whale in British waters. Biologist removed the whales jaw bone and teeth and have given it to The Great North Hancock Museum.
The 30-tonne animal died of suffocation after becoming stranded, but experts say it will now be hard to tell if illness or other conditions brought it there, as much of its organs have already decomposed.
Unfortunately this part of the North Sea acts as quite a good trap for them, because they are a deep water species and when they end up in shallow waters their sonar doesn't work properly, they can't navigate and unless they get away very quickly they get stranded.
The sad remains of a 30 Ton Sperm Whale where washed up near Sandy Bay near Newbiggin by the Sea, Northumberland. It is very rare to see a Sperm Whale in British waters. Biologist removed the whales jaw bone and teeth and have given it to The Great North Hancock Museum.
The 30-tonne animal died of suffocation after becoming stranded, but experts say it will now be hard to tell if illness or other conditions brought it there, as much of its organs have already decomposed.
Unfortunately this part of the North Sea acts as quite a good trap for them, because they are a deep water species and when they end up in shallow waters their sonar doesn't work properly, they can't navigate and unless they get away very quickly they get stranded.
