| Summary: | Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - UMA-4820 - female 16.8 m - Pelvic location - UMass Amherst. 55 foot (660 inches), female stranded alive at Sunken Meadow Beach, Eastham, Barnstable Co., MA. Euthanized and towed to Jeremy Point, Cape Cod National Seashore, Wellfleet. Anterior 2 feet of left mandible broken off, coronoid processes (where the masseter muscle attaches) broken on each mandible, tip of left maxilla broken off, crack across left maxilla & left scapula with recent granulation of healing bone at all of these sites. The extent of these injuries suggested ship strike. Skull, mandibles, both flippers including scapulas, both pelvic bones, sternum and right first rib salvaged on 8 August for the Univ. of MA, Amherst.
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