A whale has died after becoming stranded at a beach in Devon.
The British Divers Marine Life Rescue said it was called to the whale stranding at Babbacombe beach, Torquay. It was identified as a Sowerby's beaked whale, a deep-diving specialist species which "do not usually come anywhere close to the coast", the BDMLR said.BDMLR teams attended the beach on 12 September and said the whale appeared "painfully thin, with visible vertebra showing" as well as a broken beak.The whale was very thin when it was discoveredIt is the sixth to be reported in South West since the inception of the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme in 1990.
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