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Impressive 1.5-meter "sea snake" found by beach clean-up crew was something else entirely

Allan Rose Hill
Oct 07, 2024
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image: Dan Shachar
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A group collecting trash on the Danish island of Bornholm stumbled on a fantastic "sea snake" specimen that washed up on the shore. See below. Recognizing that the 1.5-meter snake was quite unusual looking, they had it further analyzed. Conservation group NaturBornholm determined it wasn't a sea snake at all but rather a whale penis.

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