Overview
- Danish officials collected a tissue sample on Friday from a dead whale about 75 meters off Anholt to determine if it is the animal known as Timmy.
- Inspectors reported no GPS transmitter on the carcass, and the device fitted before the May 2 release has yielded no independently verifiable signals.
- Identification remains unconfirmed, with several researchers calling a match highly likely while some groups cite fin markings that do not fit Timmy.
- The whale had stranded multiple times in Germany and was moved by a privately funded barge before being released near Skagen on May 2, a move many scientists said offered a weakened animal little chance.
- Denmark does not plan to remove the body unless it drifts to shore, reflecting a policy that often leaves large carcasses to nature, where a sinking whale can feed marine life for years as a whale fall.