A humpback whale ran aground and was found dead Wednesday on the beaches of Carnon, near Montpellier (Hérault).

The animal is not one of the species regularly observed in the Mediterranean, unlike the fin whale.

“As soon as we arrived, she was already dead,” explains Élodie Sene, animal care provider at the Seaquarium in Grau-du-Roi, and member of Gecem, the Cetacean Study Group in the Mediterranean.

Before she ran aground, she had not been spotted at all, which is quite unlikely.

I've never seen it, it's the first time I've seen it in the Mediterranean.

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🔴 A calf stranded on the beaches of La Grande-Motte this Wednesday, May 26, for a little over an hour.

About 7-8 meters.

Could it be the cetacean that has been dying for several weeks on the Mediterranean coasts?

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Seven meters long

The humpback whale, seven meters long, was evacuated by the city's technical services.

It will be stored in a technical area while waiting for an autopsy to be carried out on Thursday morning in order to understand the reasons for this stranding.

In recent weeks, attention has focused on a lost gray whale in the Mediterranean, whose chances of returning to its natural environment, the North Pacific, were very low.

Entering this closed sea at the level of Morocco, it cut from North Africa to Italy, went up the Italian and French coasts.

The Spanish press reported a few days ago its presence in Mallorca, very weakened.

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Did you see ?

The body of a scary fish living on the bottom of the ocean washed up on a beach

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