Dead whale washes ashore

From left, Rhema Neas, a intern for Cascadia Research, Jessie Huggins, stranding coordinator for Cascadia Research, and Eddie Kim, an intern for Washington Department of Fish And Wildlife in yellow, study a gray whale carcass that washed up near Ocean Shores recently. Researchers have reported an unusual number of whale deaths this spring as gray whales make their way to northern feeding grounds off Alaska.

(Photos by Dennis Schulte)                                From left, Rhema Neas, a intern for Cascadia Research, Jessie Huggins, stranding coordinator for Cascadia Research, and Eddie Kim, an intern for Washington Department of Fish And Wildlife in yellow, study the gray whale carcass.

(Photos by Dennis Schulte) From left, Rhema Neas, a intern for Cascadia Research, Jessie Huggins, stranding coordinator for Cascadia Research, and Eddie Kim, an intern for Washington Department of Fish And Wildlife in yellow, study the gray whale carcass.