{"id":177766,"date":"2026-03-27T22:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177766\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:15:06","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-necropsy-performed-on-whale-that-washed-ashore-on-rockaway-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177766\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Necropsy performed on whale that washed ashore on Rockaway Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dead whale washed ashore Wednesday night. Neighbors reported the whale to the Atlantic Marine Conservation the next morning after the stench of the decaying mammal could be smelled nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists spent hours on the beach Friday performing a necropsy on the whale. They say it could take a couple of months before they are able to determine a cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second incident of a dead whale in the New York and New Jersey area for the year and the first one in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dead whale washed ashore Wednesday night. Neighbors reported the whale to the Atlantic Marine Conservation the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[71657,98,100,99,9,24,63,294,71655],"class_list":["post-177766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-beached-whale","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rockaway-beach","tag-whale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}