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submitted 1 week ago by GreyShuck@feddit.uk to c/nature@feddit.uk

A whale that washed up near a coastal resort has been formally identified as a Sowerby's beaked whale, which is rarely seen at sea.

The body of the juvenile male was found on Saturday near Smallmouth Beach in Weymouth, Dorset.

Experts from London Zoo confirmed the species, which is thought to inhabit deep ocean trenches in the North Atlantic.

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