The team left the whale to decompose on the beach, which “provides a substantial source of food for small forage fish, birds, crustaceans, small land-based predators and nitrogen back into the ...

“There are little babies. Up one end, there’s a lot of big ones. It’s sad,” she added. In 2022, 230 pilot whales stranded further south on the west coast at Macquarie Harbor. The largest ...