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Right whale found dead off Cape Cod

Mammal injured by blunt object

By Michael Levenson
Globe Correspondent / May 1, 2005

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A 20-ton, 48-foot North Atlantic right whale found moldering on South Monomoy Island off the coast of Chatham might have been killed when it was struck by a passing ship, scientists who performed a necropsy on the giant mammal said yesterday. (Full article: 501 words)

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