https://phys.org/news/2018-08-red-tide-foot-whale-shark.html > FWC's Dr. Gregg Poulakis and Dr. Jose Castro of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration performed a necropsy on the whale shark, which is believed to be a male about 26-foot feet long, according to the FWC, which posted photos of the shark Wednesday. > "It was fairly fresh or newly deceased (not heavily decomposed)," the commission said.