according to the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/www-facebook-com-amseasorg-posts-124491130.jpg\")
A 40-foot-long Sei whale was found washed up on the shore of Rockaway Beach Thursday morning. NYSDEC<\/p>\n
The NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, and NOAA Fisheries New England\/Mid-Atlantic are working with the conservation society to secure and monitor the large marine mammal, authorities said. <\/p>\n
The team will coordinate plans to document the whale and conduct an autopsy on Friday. <\/p>\n
Wild photos captured the ginormous Sei whale sprawled out across the sand near the water\u2019s edge. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe best way to assist these animals, and keep them and yourself safe, is by calling trained responders and maintaining a 150-foot distance,\u201d the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society wrote in a statement. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is important to remember that whales in the surf are still dangerous, even when deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The marine mammal was first spotted floating offshore 15 miles south of Long Island on Wednesday. NYSDEC<\/p>\n
Sei whales are classified as endangered because their population was greatly reduced by commercial whaling in the 19th and 20th centuries, according to NOAA. <\/p>\n
They prefer temperate waters and can be found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.<\/p>\n
The New York Bight, the coastal area between the city, Long Island and the Jersey shore, had 10 whale fatalities last year, according to Gothamist. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive whale carcass about the size of a city bus washed up on a Queens beach Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":684730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,14079,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,33506,31417,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,12793],"class_list":["post-684729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-beaches","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-rockaway-beach","tag-rockaways","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-whales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116299259510260851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684729","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=684729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}