Scientists are trying to figure out what killed a gray whale that beached itself in Malibu over the weekend.
The young male, about the size of a school bus, came ashore Saturday afternoon barely alive. It got wedged among some rocks in Point Dume, eventually died, and has been there ever since.
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KNX News' Emily Valdez reports that healthy whales don't beach themselves, so how did he end up on the rocks?
Experts were at the scene to take tissue samples of the whale to try and identify a cause of death.
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The California Wildlife Center says this is the third whale to beach itself in Southern California this year, and they believe that's a lot.
Wildlife officials hoped Mother Nature would take the whale back to sea, as it had been flowing back in and out with the tide, but have decided to tow the 13-18,000 pound carcass farther out into the water.
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