Experts believe it is a female Sei whale that became stranded after being carried up the north bank of the Humber Estuary by an exceptionally high tide while looking for food. Making contact with the bottom it has rolled onto its side and covered its blow hole, resulting in suffocation. Read for instance The Telegraph
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Another theory