Scientists study cause of endangered whale calf's death

National Park Service says scientists are trying to discover cause of death of a whale calf belonging to “one of rarest marine mammals” on earth after it was found stranded on a beach on rth Carolina’s Outer Banks.

Biologists performed a necropsy on rth Atlantic right whale calf and took DNA samples Saturday. National Park Service at Cape Lookout National Seashore posted news of whale's death on its Facebook p .

Right whales are critically endangered. park service says only about 360 of animals are still alive and about five or six calves are born each year.

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