WARNING: Graphic scenes that some might find disturbing ⬇️ After a brief memorial ceremony for the dead sperm whale on the north shore, members of NOAA, MA Environmental Police, and MMAN began working to remove its lower jaw and prevent people from taking its valuable teeth.

They are preventing other people from taking its teeth by taking its teeth…

Once the creature dies why does th govt entity declare ownership. Fuck off?

they took its valuable teeth to prevent ppl from taking its valuable teeth?

NOAA law enforcement now has possession of the lower jaw and ivory teeth. “They keep it in custody. If stuff like that gets onto the black market it only creates more risk of poaching endangered animals,” said Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket Director Pam Murphy.

God forbid people should benefit off a dead whale who floats ashore.

That's for the crew of the Essex you son of a bitch!

Wait. So they cut the teeth out to prevent people from taking the teeth? We live in the strangest timeline.

Why not let people take them? The whale’s dead, it won’t care. Why to you assholes have to bogart all the interesting stuff on the planet?

This is how they dealt with a dead whale in Oregon in the '70s. Check out the video: ➡️ Funny stuff.

Did anyone consider just leaving it the fuck alone?

So instead they take the teeth so someone else can't? What kind of retarded sense is this.

They are stealing them before you can.

"We are removing the lower jaw to prevent people from taking its valuable teeth so that WE can take its valuable teeth."

Most of the people commenting simply do not understand whats going on here. They must remove the teeth to stop people from taking them and selling them because they’re very valuable. They have to prevent people from doing this because they want to do it themselves.

Why? Why are people not allowed to have its teeth?

I remember a whale was beached in Newport Beach around late 80s early 90s. They buried it next to the jetty, but my dad took me to dig amd saw off a rib bone lol. I remember finding a TMNT Splinter figure in the rocks that day.

Natural death? Predator death? Or from fucking up an ecosystem thanks to @MassGovernor & @MassDems?

Whale should’ve known that he can’t park there.

You don’t want Americans to have whale teeth? I think there’s something seriously wrong with these workers. End their funding!

I'm confused. The animal is dead. Why can't people take its teeth and legally sell them?

So this whale is no one’s property and it’s on public property. Why exactly would “authorities” have a right to the teeth more than citizens? I’m aware of the stupid reasons why, but I’m looking for a good one.

The value is in the ambergris in the whale's digestive tract..which is very expensive per gram, used for making perfumes... and the spermaceti inside the upper part of it's skull.

Just to be clear, the valuable teeth were divided equally between NOAA, the Environmental Police and MMAN before they left the beach

How can a person taking the teeth prevent people taking the teeth? The teeth are still taken - not that the whale needs them any more.

They prevent people from taking its valuable teeth....by taking its valuable teeth

After they are done removing the jaw, they should head out and remove the stupid useless wind turbines that in all likelihood put it on that beach.

*doesn't want people to take the teeth* *takes the teeth* What a load of bull shit.

Another dead whale. How many to date this year? 😠

whoever steals the teeth first gets the teeth

Rules for thee, but not for me!

There once was this man from Nantucket who sawed a sperm…

Who gave RFK Jr a chainsaw bruh