Questions Remain In Whale Shark Death
January 17, 2007 @ 08:37 AM (EST)
Source: Cnn.com
Officials at the Georgia Aquarium said Tuesday that it could take weeks to figure out why Ralph the whale shark suddenly died last week.
Scientists from the aquarium, the University of Georgia and the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, conducted a necropsy, or animal autopsy, on the 22-foot fish Friday.
Tissue samples from the shark are still being analyzed, and some samples were frozen for future research, aquarium officials said in a news release.
After the necropsy, Ralph's one- ton remains were sent to a crematorium. The ashes will then go to an undisclosed animal cemetery, aquarium spokeswoman Ashley Manning said...
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