{"id":118960,"date":"2025-09-06T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118960\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:40:07","slug":"second-largest-whale-species-found-on-camarthen-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118960\/","title":{"rendered":"Second largest whale species found on Camarthen beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The body of the world&#8217;s second largest type of whale has washed up on a beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beachgoers at Cefn Sidan, in Carmarthenshire, contacted Marine Environmental Monitoring on Monday, with reports of a very large stranding. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the fin whale was seen by the environmental team the following day they said &#8220;it had been dead for some time&#8221; and as a result was &#8220;in a bad state of decomposition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5y482xg3llo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 12-month-old long-finned pilot whale had died after becoming stranded on a beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marine Environmental Monitoring said there had only been four fin whales reported in the last 24 years around the Welsh coast, with the last one being in 2020, which turned up in the river Dee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of the world&#8217;s second largest type of whale has washed up on a beach. Beachgoers at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-118960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}