15 foot-long decomposed body of blue whale found at Maharashtra beach

A 15 feet-long, approximately 10-tonne decomposed body of a whale washed up at Alibaug beach on Thursday morning, less than two months after a live blue whale had stranded on another beach along Maharashtra coast. (Source: Photo by Express Photo)

Forest officials from the Alibaug division buried the carcass around 3.30 pm. (Source: Photo by Express Photo)

Around 2 pm, wildlife photographer Kunal Salunkhe captured the animal and took three tissue samples- skin on the ventral part. (Source: Photo by Express Photo)

The carcass was found just 1.5km from the Alibaug forest office on Thursday. (Source: Photo by Express Photo)

Around 12.30 pm, the JCB dragged the carcass around 25 metres away to the grave. (Source: Photo by Express Photo)

On June 25, in the first case of live stranding on Maharashtra coast, a blue whale washed up ashore on Revdanda beach. (Source: Photo by Express Photo)

The ‘surprise’ sightings and their frequency so close to the shore has got forest department officials excited, as the last reported sighting of a blue whale, one that washed up on the shore, off Maharashtra coast was in 1914. (Source: Photo by Express Photo)