Near Ventura:
The carcass of a 70-foot blue whale rolled gently with the incoming waves off a beach about 10 miles north of Ventura this morning as scientists from as far as the San Francisco area rushed to the scene.
Blue whales, the largest animal on earth, have been migrating through the Santa Barbara Channel. How the one that drifted into the rocks off Hobson Beach died will not be known until scientists have extracted tissues and examined its vast body.
Beached less than 100 feet from the Old Pacific Coast Highway, the whale has drawn dozens of spectators ambling on the roadside, taking photos and giving their children a rare glimpse of a huge marine mammal.
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