Whales Wash Up On Revere Beach, Little Brewster

BOSTON — The 25-foot long whale that washed up on Revere Beach Thursday night, the latest of several dead whales to have washed ashore in Massachusetts in recent weeks, was the same whale that washed ashore in Cohasset on Sept. 9, according to aquarium officials. It was found just hours before a humpback whale washed ashore on Little Brewster Island Friday afternoon.

State police kept people away while specialists from New England Aquarium arrived Friday on Revere Beach.

"Sad to see. What a beautiful creature," police tweeted.

Aquarium officials were also on their way to collect samples on Brewster Island.

After the whale beached in Cohasset, it was towed back out to sea. The plan for today is to bury it in place once the tide recedes, State Police said.

The whale's death comes days after scores of dead clams washed ashore Revere Beach, leaving an awful smell.

Revere Beach is the oldest public beach in America.

In August, 'the Rob Gronkowski of whales' washed ashore on Duxbury Beach. The 55-foot fin whale had been dead for two or three days when it hit land. In June, a rarely seen pgymy sperm whale died shortly after reaching Steep Hill Beach in Ipswich.

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Photo courtesy State Police