Biologists at the New England Aquarium are studying what caused a rare deep-sea whale to wash up on Massachusetts beaches.
Aquarium biologists and Staff from the International Fund for Animal Conservation are performing autopsies on whales at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. They thought it was a Sorby's sword-kissed whale, but the aquarium hasn't found a sword-kissed whale since 2006.
Several species of saber-snout whales have been spotted 200 miles off the coastline of the North Atlantic.
This species of sword-nosed whale has a slender snout, lives in the cold deep sea, and mainly eats small fish. Sometimes, for-profit fishermen accidentally catch such whales.
These whale carcasses provide an opportunity for biologists to delve into them.
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