PORT HUENEME, Calif. (KABC) -- A whale carcass washed ashore at the beach in Port Hueneme on Monday.
The National Marine Fisheries Service said the dead whale appeared at about 3 p.m.
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Officials with the Channel Islands Marine Institute were running samples of the whale.
The whale, which was believed to be a humpback whale, was dead for some time as pieces of it were floating in the water nearby, according to officials.
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The National Marine Fisheries Service said they confirmed the whale was not the same one that washed ashore Dockweiler State Beach and was towed back out to sea.
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The city of Port Hueneme was handling the investigation.
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A dead whale washed ashore in Port Hueneme in Ventura County on Monday, July 4, 2016.