Proposed mechanism of rapid self-burial (II).
Modern whales stranded and partially buried in the swash and intertidal zones of sandy beaches. All specimens sit in a scour depression developed around them as a result of erosion of the sediment surface by intense wave action. A) Specimen of Phocoena phocoena stranded in the Middelkerke beach (Bel...
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2021
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254395.g028 |