WASHINGTON — Officials near a Nantucket beach have a whale-sized problem. That's not surprising considering the problem is literally a whale.

A dead sperm whale washed up on the shore of the Massachusetts island on Sunday, according to the Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket.

The nonprofit, which rescues and cares for marine animals, clocked the whale at 50 feet and 104,000 pounds.

Because of its immense size, the whale is still sitting on the beach nearly a week later, simply because there is no easy way to remove it.

The organization said in a statement on social media that the carcass had been anchored to shore so that it wouldn't wash out to sea while they prepared for a necropsy to determine how it died.

After a consultation with experts who have helped remove whale remains in the

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