Lauren Wild, a whale biologist and assistant applied fisheries professor at University
of Alaska Southeast, met them at the dock, put the whale fetus into a white body bag,
and put it in the freezer at the local university campus.
“It’s sort of a very unusual thing for a beaked whale to wash up, because they live
offshore and they’re deep divers,” Wild said. “So for it to have somehow floated in,
the currents must be quite interesting there for it to have gotten into that cove.”
