These gnarled bones didn’t come from the open sea; they emerged from the ground below.
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“When storms happen like this, the sand shifts so much that whatever is buried underneath — logs and gray whales — can come unearthed from under the sand,” Moe Flannery, a senior collections manager of ornithology and mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences told SFGATE. Most of the bones spotted at San Francisco beaches probably came from stranded whales. If they decompose on land, chances are their remains will eventually resurface during powerful storm events.
, on the other hand, will likely stay at the bottom of the ocean forever. “It's not necessarily that they're washing in; it’s that the sand is washing out,” Flannery explained.The remains spotted at Ocean Beach in mid-January likely belong to thedeceased whale that washed ashore in June 2021, she said.
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