The body of one of the giants of the seas has been cleared up on a Cornish beach.
The 56ft (16.9m) fin whale, the worlds second largest animal after the blue whale, came ashore at Porthtowan nearby St Ives after floating in shipping lanes for 3 days.
Sightseers were urged to stay afar from the rotting carcass, that weighs 100 tonnes and is twice as prolonged as a stand in decker bus.
It is not surprising for fin whales to be sighted off Cornwall but usually frequency are they cleared ashore.
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She added: We have taken samples but do not nonetheless have an viewable means of death. It is majority expected that it was struck by a ship.
It has probably been passed for about a week.
A orator for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency pronounced that since of the size, and the risk it acted to shipping, the whale had been tracked for 3 days and sailors had been warned of the position.
The body is as well large to move but the Coastguard pronounced it might still be cleared out to sea with the tide. The open was warned to keep a area since the whale might have been diseased.
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