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Scientists Finally Found the Truth Behind the ‘Corkscrew’ Killings of Hundreds of Gray Seal Pups

The answer is much more troubling than if a human had done the horrifying killings.

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Many decades ago, someone first noticed the grisly remains of a gray seal pup along the sands of Sable Island, a thin sliver of land along Canada’s East Coast, just over 100 miles southeast of Nova Scotia. It was initially written off as the aftermath of a shark attack or maybe some kind of boating accident.

Every breeding season, hundreds of gray seal pups would turn up dead, with the same grotesque spiral wounds that would “corkscrew” from their mouths to their chests. It wasn’t too long before people realized this was no accident. This seemed premeditated, like someone had been butchering these baby seal pups with power tools.

What was actually going on had remained a mystery for decades,........

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