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Mangled whale carcass found in the Hudson River off New Jersey

A dead whale was found floating in the Hudson River off New Jersey.
NBC New York
A dead whale was found floating in the Hudson River off New Jersey.
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A dead whale surfaced in the Hudson River off New Jersey on Wednesday.

The badly mangled creature, possibly a fin whale, was photographed Wednesday night by NBC 4 New York’s news chopper.

The carcass was first seen in Newark Bay at 5 p.m. Monday, after it detached from the Cuckoo Hunter, a nearly 40,000-ton container ship it got stuck on, said Coast Guard operations specialist Michelle Krupa. The Army Corps of Engineers planned to remove the whale.