Dead humpback, 2 dolphins, porpoise wash up on north Ore. coast

A humpback whale, two dolphins and a harbor porpoise washed up on Seaside Beach along the Oregon coast over the weekend.

The manager of the Seaside Aquarium, Keith Chandler, told KOIN 6 News researchers from Portland State Marine Biology have one of the dolphins for a necropsy.

The Seaside Aquarium posted a video on Tuesday to its Facebook page of the investigation into the dead 24-foot humpback.

(Warning: some may find the video unsettling. Watch here or below.)

A necropsy is also underway on the whale.

Chandler said he doubts the events are related and added the humpback whale appears to have been dead for a while.

“We have a young humpback whale that washed in [Sunday],” Chandler said in the YouTube video. “It was late morning. We were kind of watching it wash in all night. Low tide moved it up to a higher point of the beach.”

Chandler said he doubts the humpback is more than a year old.

A storm surge is the likely reason the animals washed ashore, he said.

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