A young humpback whale washed up on Long Island on Monday, the latest in a series of troubling similar incidents in recent weeks.

In addition to the Marshfield whale, a dead whale washed up on Bayside Beach in Plymouth on Dec. 9. In Brewster, the carcass of another humpback whale washed ashore on the beach between Crosby Landing Beach and Linnell Landing Beach the weekend of Dec. 14.

A necropsy was scheduled to be performed Saturday on a young humpback whale that turned up dead on a beach in Kitty Hawk on the Outer Banks Friday morning, police said. “Please do not touch or disturb the whale,” police said on Facebook after the whale washed ashore near the Bennett Street Beach Access.

Witnesses found the 5-10-year-old juvenile humpback whale in Kitty Hawk, near the Bennett Street Beach Access and reported it around 8 a.m., according to Marina Doshkov, stranding coordinator with the OBX Marine Mammal Stranding Network.

Federal and state investigators are examining a juvenile humpback whale that washed ashore Monday morning in Long Beach. Long Beach police reported the whale was found on the beach near Roosevelt Boulevard.

Authorities are investigating after a deceased whale washed ashore on Long Island. The juvenile humpback whale was discovered in Long Beach, near Shore Road and Roosevelt Boulevard, early Monday morning,