{"id":446881,"date":"2026-05-13T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446881\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:23:07","slug":"investigation-launched-after-rare-whale-washes-up-in-north-clare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446881\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation Launched After Rare Whale Washes Up In North Clare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway after an extremely rare species of whale washed up in North Clare.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, a Gervais Beaked Whale, which was pregnant with a calf at the time was discovered at Kilmacreehy Beach in Liscannor.<\/p>\n<p>Although the deep water species is well known to the North Atlantic, it\u2019s usually sighted of the East Coast of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Strandings Officer with the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group Stephanie Levesque says they\u2019re working to confirm the cause of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after an extremely rare species of whale washed up in North Clare. On Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-446881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}