When CNN spoke with van Helden, the team was just about to remove the whale’s head, which they would later put through a CT scan. With each slice and turn of the whale carcass, more clues emerge.

A young humpback whale washed ashore in Long Beach on Monday morning — with authorities now working to determine why it died, according to police. “Early this morning, a juvenile humpback ...

Marine life researchers hope samples taken from a young humpback whale whose body washed ashore at Rexhame Beach in Marshfield on Thursday will offer more information into her cause of death.

In entering the competition, he proposed placing a series of large, low, round tables - covered in these whale-accounting rivets - in a wide area that was formerly used to slice skin from the whales.