{"id":502748,"date":"2026-01-09T02:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/502748\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:36:09","slug":"dead-whale-spotted-off-bethany-beach-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/502748\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead whale spotted off Bethany Beach | Latest News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHANY BEACH, Del. &#8211; Chopper 16 was overhead the body of a dead whale floating off the coast of Bethany Beach on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The whale, which appears to be a humpback, was seen flipped on its back in the waters near Ocean Ridge on Jan. 8. The whale later washed onto the shore.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not yet released any details on the whale or a possible cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated as more information becomes available.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHANY BEACH, Del. &#8211; Chopper 16 was overhead the body of a dead whale floating off the coast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":502749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[76536,225476,169952,905,225477,58792,159,67,132,68,12793,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-502748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bethany","9":"tag-bethany-beach","10":"tag-dead-whale","11":"tag-delaware","12":"tag-drift-whale","13":"tag-humpback","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-whales","19":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115862816843913884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}