Va. Aquarium’s stranding team helps marine animals

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — The mystery began with a telephone call on an otherwise normal Wednesday to the Mid-Atlantic Marine Conservation Center, a plain building on a dead-end street near the Virginia Beach oceanfront.

A whale 30 feet in length was on a sandy shoal in the Chesapeake Bay near the state line that separates Maryland and Virginia, several hours away.

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