A 40-foot finback whale that washed up on Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts, has a very unusual anatomy: a gigantic swollen tongue!
What really stands out is the whale's swollen tongue, which looks like a giant balloon sticking out of its mouth.
C.T. Harry of the International Fund for Animal Welfare told the Cape Cod Times the tongue was swollen by gas created in the decomposition process.
Marine biologists may do a necropsy, but not so soon:
"You don't want an open carcass on the beach on a busy weekend," Harry told the paper.
(Photo: David G. Curran/SatelliteNewsService)
And just in case someone has missed it, here is the infamous exploding whale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_t44siFyb4
And Kalel, will check out the link.. :)
(For those outside my tiny Massachusetts orbit, Provincetown's primary population is supposedly gay. Now you can laugh.)
Great vid! Slight overkill on the dynamite, eh?
You know, how we're careless about chemicals?