Mase offered one explanation for the spike in ... However, the necropsy will reveal more about what caused the whale's death. “We’re going to have to wait for test results to come back before ...

Samples have been collected for histopathological analysis, which will help further investigate the potential cause of death.” Mase also indicated that the “whale skeleton was retained and ...

The team took tissue samples to try to determine whether that pooling happened before or after death. “They’re going to be focusing on that head area,” Mase said. The whale had decomposition ...