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“I saw it early in the morning when I was walking back from the shore. “It looked really dead — the skin was dry and dark grey and patchy. It has a distinctive head, with an open mouth showing sharp teeth. “There was an opening further back on the head where one would suspect the ears, but it might have been the gills.”