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Cuttlefish bone

These bones are light and look like surfboards. These are sometimes washed ashore. The bone of each species is so distinctive that experts can tell just from the bone what species of cuttlefish it belongs to! For ordinary people like us, we can at least estimate how large the animal was.

 

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