FIRST ON 3 UPDATE: Dead whale washes back onto Bald Head Island

BALD HEAD ISLAND, NC (WWAY) — The Bald Head Island Conservancy says the beached whale that was pushed back into the ocean yesterday washed back on shore dead this morning.

The conservancy says a stranding team is taking the female pygmy sperm whale to UNCW’s Marine Sciences Lab for a necropsy.

Bald Head Island residents pushed the beached whale back into the water yesterday.

(Photo courtesy Bald Head Island Conservancy)