A crowd helped carry the whale, estimated to weigh 600 to 900 pounds off the beach and up a rocky hillside. But <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-government-agency-says-no-link-dead-whales-wind-farm-development" target="_blank">the whale died during transport</a>.

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<div class="m"><picture><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/06/343/192/ALL_CUSTOM_FS_LOCAL_NEWS_CA_GENERAL.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/06/686/384/ALL_CUSTOM_FS_LOCAL_NEWS_CA_GENERAL.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x"><source media="(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/06/672/378/ALL_CUSTOM_FS_LOCAL_NEWS_CA_GENERAL.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/06/1344/756/ALL_CUSTOM_FS_LOCAL_NEWS_CA_GENERAL.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x"><source media="(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/06/931/523/ALL_CUSTOM_FS_LOCAL_NEWS_CA_GENERAL.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/06/1862/1046/ALL_CUSTOM_FS_LOCAL_NEWS_CA_GENERAL.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x"><source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/06/720/405/ALL_CUSTOM_FS_LOCAL_NEWS_CA_GENERAL.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/06/1440/810/ALL_CUSTOM_FS_LOCAL_NEWS_CA_GENERAL.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x"> <img src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/06/640/320/ALL_CUSTOM_FS_LOCAL_NEWS_CA_GENERAL.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1" alt="A beached whale on a Southern California beach died despite rescue effort of nearly 100 people." width="100%" height="auto"></picture></div> <div class="info"><div class="caption"><p><span>A beached whale on a Southern California beach died despite rescue effort of nearly 100 people.</span> <span>(Fox News)</span></p></div></div>

"We’d like to thank the community, especially the many people (maybe up to 100 beachgoers) that supported the rescue team and helped carry and bring the animal to the transport unit," SeaWorld said in a statement reported by KGTV.

A necropsy was planned to try to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/leslie-jordan-cause-death-revealed" target="_blank">determine the cause of death</a>.

Nearly 100 California beachgoers helped carry a beached pygmy sperm whale to a rescue vehicle. The whale weighed an estimated 600 to 900 pounds and died during transport.

Nearly 100 people help carry California beached whale to rescue vehicle

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