{"id":83127,"date":"2026-05-15T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/83127\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:52:20","slug":"dead-whale-discovered-off-coast-of-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/83127\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead whale discovered off coast of Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A dead whale has been discovered off the Danish island of Anholt, Danish news agency Ritzau reported late on Thursday, citing the country&#8217;s environmental agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The whale was found about 75 metres from the shore and is believed to have been dead for some time, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was not immediately clear whether it was the same whale, nicknamed Timmy in the German press, that first stranded off Germany&#8217;s Baltic Sea coast in late March before being moved by rescuers about a month later into the Skagerrak strait in the North Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A local nature warden told broadcaster TV 2 \u00d8stjylland the animal was likely a humpback whale measuring between 10-15 metres in length.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities currently have no plans to recover the whale, though that could change if the carcass drifts closer to shore, the report added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dead whale has been discovered off the Danish island of Anholt, Danish news agency Ritzau reported late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44277,44276,27,44272,26,44274,38783,44273,44275],"class_list":{"0":"post-83127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-baltic-sea-coast","9":"tag-coast-of-denmark","10":"tag-danmark","11":"tag-dead-whale","12":"tag-denmark","13":"tag-environmental-agency","14":"tag-humpback-whale","15":"tag-rescue-efforts","16":"tag-shallow-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116578218586562160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}