The carcass of an adult male minke whale is removed from Old Orchard Beach Monday morning. It was the second large marine animal to turn up on shore in southern Maine in the past week.

Baldwin inches closer to the decomposed carcass of a minke whale while on a walk on the beach his owner Jade Markcotte. The whale washed up on the shore just south of the pier on Old Orchard Beach over the weekend.

Todd Boster covers his nose with his shirt as he gets a closer look at the decomposed carcass of a minke whale that washed up on the shore of Old Orchard Beach over the weekend.

Beachgoers stop to look at the decomposed carcass of a minke whale that washed up on the shore of Old Orchard Beach over the weekend.

A whale washed up on the shore in Old Orchard Beach.

A whale carcass washed up on Old Orchard Beach on Sunday morning.