A massive sperm whale – weighing as much as a fully loaded tractor-trailer – washed ashore on Nantucket this week, the island’s first stranding of the species in more than two decades.
The 50-feet-long whale, who appeared Sunday, is “far too big, awkward and heavy to remove from the beach,” the Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket wrote in a news release. The whale’s cause of death is not clear.
