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Remove one whale from the list of total number of humpback whales around the world as a young member of the family has been found beached near Pescadero, California.

Humpback whale species is an endangered species whose one whale washed ashore at Pescadero's Bean Hollow State Beach. It was a 32-foot juvenile female humpback whose carcass was found on Monday at the beach.

Seagulls were also seen on Monday flying over the dead whale. Officials came to know about the beached animal when some Austrian tourists noticed something unusual on the beach. According to the tourists, they were en route to Monterey when they stopped to check what was wrong there. No one in the group was sure what it was. At first, they thought it could be a huge tent or something similar to it, said Verena Ebner, a witness.

While providing details on the whale carcass, Lisa Schiller, who saw the whale closely, said it was shredded completely, and it was very sad to see that. Another witness, Lesya Castillo, said, "Picnickers also stopped, but the stench quickly drove them away. The smell is incredible. We're going to go a little bit farther".

Dead whale
A team of scientists came to the scene on Monday morning to inspect the dead whale. As per the team from the Marine Mammal Center and the Academy of Sciences, it performed necropsy on the whale's carcass and found that skull fractures were behind its death. There were huge fractures to the skull, and there are possibilities that the animal had a collision with a vessel, said the team.

This is not the first time this year when a humpback carcass washed up on the beach. Earlier this month, a 30-foot humpback whale was found dead on the same beach.

A report published in Recorder Online revealed, "A young humpback whale that washed onto a Northern California beach had massive fractures to the skull, which experts say suggests the 32-foot animal was hit by a boat."

The San Francisco Chronicle reports Monday researchers with the Marine Mammal Center and California Academy of Sciences performed a necropsy on the female whale first spotted Sunday on Bean Hollow State Beach.

Scientists also found a cut on the front right flipper of the whale - evidence it had been entangled. Humpback whales are slowing moving north along California's coast, following the herring and anchovies they feed on.

According to a report in Kron4 by Yama Hazheer, "Six scientists from The Marine Mammal Center and California Academy of Sciences responded Monday afternoon to perform a necropsy on a whale carcass at the Bean Hollow State Beach in Pescadero."

Upon observation, the team saw massive fractures behind the whale's skill, blunt force trauma and a cut on the front right flipper. The team will analyze tissue samples to determine the whale's cause of death.