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A dead fin whale rests on the frozen mudflats near Anchorage, Alaska, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

A dead fin whale rests on the frozen mudflats near Anchorage, Alaska, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Skyla Walcott, with the NOAA Fisheries marine mammal lab, removes blubber from a fin whale carcass to gain access to organs and tissue during a necropsy on the frozen mudflats near Anchorage, Alaska, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Skyla Walcott, with the NOAA Fisheries marine mammal lab, removes blubber from a fin whale carcass to gain access to organs and tissue during a necropsy on the frozen mudflats near Anchorage, Alaska, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

People cross the mudflats to see the carcass of a fin whale that recently came to rest there, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, near Anchorage, Alaska, (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

People cross the mudflats to see the carcass of a fin whale that recently came to rest there, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, near Anchorage, Alaska, (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

A visitor touches the skin of a fin whale carcass on the coastal mudflats near Anchorage, Alaska, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

A visitor touches the skin of a fin whale carcass on the coastal mudflats near Anchorage, Alaska, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)