The first seemed to greet us in a momentary salute; the second was a melancholy spectacle - vast, dead, stranded on the beach.
Blood samples from dead stranded cetaceans revealed infection in one in 70 harbour porpoises, in six of 21 common dolphins and in the only hump-backed whale tested.
In addition, about 18 percent of dead, stranded beluga whales in the St .Lawrence River estuary in Canada were found to have intestinal tumors or other cancers, which have been linked to industrial pollutants.
Whale specimens are also gathered by the Natural History Museum, which was given access to the carcasses of dead, stranded cetaceans for the purposes of scientific investigation under an agreement negotiated in 1913.
Konrad Gessner wrote the first scientific description of a killer whale in his "Fish book" of 1558, based on examination of a dead stranded animal in the Bay of Greifswald that had attracted a great deal of local interest.
Foam collected by boat and from shore and material from live and dead stranded birds was analyzed following standard protocols for identification of marine toxins, contaminants, and petroleum products.
Because this research was carried out on dead stranded sea turtles, no ethical approval was required.
Dead stranded seals were collected for necropsy during which species, sex, standard body length, and state of decomposition were determined.
A pregnant, dead, stranded, harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) was reported on February 22 , 2007 on western Whidbey Island, in Puget Sound, Washington State (48.2833°N, 122.7283°W).
The public and officials of various government agencies reported beluga whales found dead, stranded on the St . Lawrenceestuary shoreline.
