The fin whale is the world’s second largest mammal.
The residents of Portstewart, Derry will probably have never expected to see a 43ft (13m) fin whale washed up on their shores but that’s exactly what happened in these extraordinary images.
The Department of the Environment, the coastguard and the National Trust have been busy clearing the remains of the poor mammal up off the shore, the whale was so big that it required three diggers.
Speaking with the BBC, a spokesperson for the DOE said that “we had reports of humpbacked whales off Rathlin and there was an unusual sighting of a Beluga whale off Dunseverick. We know things are happening within the sea.”
Take a look at the size of the mammal.
A 43ft whale has been removed from a beach in Portstewart, County Derry http://t.co/Jc0Z3Pn0yE pic.twitter.com/SY6e5KEa3N
— BBC Radio Foyle (@BBCRadioFoyle) October 6, 2015
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