According to a tweet, chunks of a sperm whale washed up on NYC streets after a storm surge.
The East Coast was hit by a powerful winter storm on Friday, which caused a storm surge that washed New York City's streets with what appear to be pieces of a dead sperm whale.
Several images of what seemed to be sperm whale flesh in the street were shared on Twitter by a user in the area of Queens' Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 116th Street.
On December 13, a sperm whale washed up on Rockaway Beach, and an autopsy was planned for the next day. A necropsy is an autopsy performed on animals that can reveal the reason of death or the severity of the disease.
The Twitter user speculated that some of the dead whale found earlier this month was what New Yorkers were seeing in the streets after a storm surge from heavy rains and strong winds on Friday.
In one of those “Only in Rockaway” scenarios, it appears parts of the sperm whale that was necropsied last week, is now on Rockaway Beach Blvd and Beach 116th Street. Can’t make this up. pic.twitter.com/fDhTCM52Eg
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