The carcass was turning the water nearby red, as its skin disintegrated and it polluted the water nearby. Concerned locals contacted the government in order to help them remove the carcass. Locals felt that it was a carcass of a giant squid, however, Indonesia’s Marine and Coastal Resources Management said that it was the rotting flesh of a giant humpback whale and they didn’t knew how the thing died.
Deputy Head of the Forecasting department of the Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Nikolay Kim, said: “Judging by the appearance of the head, this is clearly some big dolphin. According to a characteristic of the skin, it is a rare species.
He continued,” I doubt that it lived in our waters. Most likely, the animal was brought by the warm current. We often get tropical and subtropical species here and, when they cool down, they stay here and then die."
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