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Gloria Oladipo in New York

Investigation under way as ninth dead whale washes up in New Jersey

A US Coast Guard officer walks past a dead male humpback whale that washed ashore in Long Island in January.
A US Coast Guard officer walks past a dead male humpback whale that washed ashore in Long Island in January. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

A ninth dead whale has washed up on the New Jersey coastline, as conservationists and local authorities investigate the causes of an unusual number of such deaths along the US east coast.

The humpback was found in Manasquan, New Jersey, on Monday.

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