SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A dead whale washed up at Ocean Beach in San Francisco Monday.
The mammal was found floating in the surf.
Experts conducted a necropsy Monday afternoon to determine the whale's cause of death.
RELATED: Dead humpback whale washes ashore at San Francisco's Baker Beach
This is the 17th whale to wash ashore in the San Francisco Bay this year.
In April, four whales were found dead on Bay Area shores in just over a week.
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