Friday, April 20, 2007

Deceased Oregon Coast Seal Quite a Specimen, Say Experts


Deceased Oregon Coast Seal Quite a Specimen, Say Experts: "Cannon Beach, Oregon) – An elephant seal corpse that washed up on the north Oregon coast was an unusual find, clocking in as the largest such creature in this area in nearly 15 years.

Wednesday morning, crews from the Seaside Aquarium responded to a call that an elephant seal had washed ashore about 100 yards from Cannon Beach’s big tourist landmark, Haystack Rock. The creature turned out to be the biggest crewmembers have ever seen, about 10 feet long."

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