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Boat strike blamed for juvenile humpback whale’s death

Animal suffered broken jaw, hemorrhaging

By Brian Gilliland
Posted 1/14/26

BETHANY BEACH — According to a necropsy performed by the Marine Education, Rescue and Rehabilitation Institute, a male juvenile humpback whale that washed ashore on Jan. 8 was killed by a boat …

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