SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A 55-foot-long whale carcass washed up on the beach in La Jolla Shores overnight Wednesday, according to the City of San Diego and NOAA.
An NOAA spokesperson told ABC 10News the whale’s remains were so decomposed that “it was impossible to determine” what species it was. The NOAA team did take tissue samples to determine the whale’s species via genetic testing.
The remains were too large to be that of a gray whale, per NOAA…