{"id":396453,"date":"2026-01-09T03:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396453\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:14:09","slug":"dead-whale-spotted-off-bethany-beach-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396453\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead whale spotted off Bethany Beach | Latest News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHANY BEACH, Del. &#8211; Chopper 16 was overhead the body of a dead whale floating off the coast of Bethany Beach on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The whale, which appears to be a humpback, was seen flipped on its back in the waters near Ocean Ridge on Jan. 8. The whale later washed onto the shore.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not yet released any details on the whale or a possible cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated as more information becomes available.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHANY BEACH, Del. &#8211; Chopper 16 was overhead the body of a dead whale floating off the coast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[63773,191651,35571,2831,191652,27377,79,34688,201],"class_list":["post-396453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bethany","tag-bethany-beach","tag-dead-whale","tag-delaware","tag-drift-whale","tag-humpback","tag-science","tag-whales","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}