An expert told Newsweek: 'The most significant findings were emaciation and abnormalities in the heart tissue. These were consistent with heart disease.'
was found early on Friday morning in Indialantic, Florida, on the seashore just in front of BLEU Beach Resort,While the exact cause of the whale's death has not yet been determined, researchers who have examined its body found that the mammal was very thin, with damage to its heart tissue.
Stock image of a dead sperm whale on a beach. A pygmy sperm whale that washed up in Florida on Friday is thought to have died because of a heart condition, although its cause of death is not yet confirmed.
"Cardiomyopathy has been documented to be the most common cause of stranding for this species and likely contributed to the mortality of this animal."According to The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration FisheriesUntil 1966, pygmy sperm whales were thought to be the same species as dwarf sperm whales, which are similar-looking and around the same size.
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