India, April 12 -- A dead 25-foot grey whale washed ashore near the Huntington Beach pier on Friday, April 11. The Orange County Register cited the CEO of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, Glenn Gray, to report that the Laguna Beach-based program responded to the situation early Saturday and a necropsy is underway.

Photos of the dead mammal, as long as a stretch version of SUVs like the Cadillac Escalade, surfaced on social media.

"Sad to see a large gray whale beached itself this morning in Huntington Beach..supposedly weighed 60,000 lbs which I understand is about average for an adult whale...now this is the extent of my expertise on gray whales," a local real estate broker, Lytle G. Warren, wrote on X, platform formerly known as Twit...