Dead Whale Found in River, Scientists Puzzled

Scientists are mystified by the carcass of a young beluga whale found in a river in central Alaska, nearly 1,000 miles from its natural ocean habitat. The first guess is the 8-foot-long whale, which often feed on fish in estuaries and the mouths of rivers, swam away from the ocean in search of food. "What are the alternatives?" asked Link Olson, a curator at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. It was highly unlikely that someone was perpetrating a hoax along a remote section of river with a whale carcass, he said.--CNN