Dead whale washes ashore in Rhode Island

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A dead whale was found Sunday near Bold Point Park in East Providence, Rhode Island.

A spokesperson for the R.I. Department of Environmental Management (DEM) said they received a report about the whale around 8 a.m.

The DEM reached out to Mystic Aquarium about the whale.

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Rachael Levine, the aquarium’s marketing project manager, told NewsNation affiliate WPRI that the minke whale has been dead about four months and first washed ashore in mid-January…

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