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bones on beach

captain_boycott · 2010-10-10 17:00:53

Came across these bones along the beach today. Looks like fingers, freaky, could it be from dolphin or whale? - not seen anything on google that matches, particularly the flat end.

10-10-2010 5:00pm

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Came across these bones along the beach today.

Looks like fingers, freaky, could it be from dolphin or whale? - not seen anything on google that matches, particularly the flat end.

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#2 10-10-2010 5:10pm

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Very similar to the pectorial fin of a bottlenose dolphin, but looks a bit wrong for a bottlenose so maybe a small porpoise or another species of dolphin..

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#3 10-10-2010 7:43pm

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could it be that of a sea lion?

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#4 10-10-2010 10:23pm

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That looks a close match. Much closer than the route I was heading on.

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#5 11-10-2010 2:46pm

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looks like a seal fin to me.

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#6 12-10-2010 4:51pm

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I have found the same thing twice and just assumed it was a seal. One of them had 'flesh / skin' still on it.

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