People watch a dead gray whale on Sunday, April 20, 2025 that washed ashore on the Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda, Calif. The whale is believed to be an adult female gray whale that was sighted on Thursday at a different location along the shore near the USS Hornet Museum. The Marine Mammal Center plans to tow the whale to Angel Island and perform a necropsy. (Stephanie Penn via Bay City News)

A dead gray whale that washed ashore in Alameda over the weekend will be towed to Angel Island to be examined by scientists, officials with The Marine Mammal Center said.

The whale is believed to be an adult female gray whale that was previously sighted on Thursday at a different location along the Alameda’s shoreline, near the USS Hornet Museum. Scientists took a sample from the whale at that time and determined it was an adult female.

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