HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Authorities and marine mammal care experts were on the shore in Huntington Beach Saturday, where a dead gray whale washed up Friday evening.

The female whale washed up near the Huntington Beach Pier, according to multiple media reports.

Personnel from the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach responded early Saturday to perform a necropsy, the OC Register reported. It was not immediately clear how the body would be removed.

Earlier this month, a smaller, minke whale was spotted in the shallow waters of Long Beach's Rainbow Harbor and was later found dead.

Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were working to determine that animal's cause of death.