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Underwater impact

People look at a dead, 35-foot humpback whale, in Lido Beach, New York, Jan. 31, 2023. A female whale was found on Rockaway Beach, in the Queens borough of New York, on Friday, Feb. 17, the 12th in the New York and New Jersey area and the 23rd found along the East Coast, according to the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society.
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People look at a dead, 35-foot humpback whale, in Lido Beach, New York, Jan. 31, 2023. A female whale was found on Rockaway Beach, in the Queens borough of New York, on Friday, Feb. 17, the 12th in the New York and New Jersey area and the 23rd found along the East Coast, according to the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society.

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