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What's Killing Seals With A Corkscrew Wound?

Periodically, batches of seals start washing ashore with strange corkscrew wounds.  No one has ever conclusively proven what causes these wounds, or why, although there are many theories.

The first notable cases of this "corkscrew seal attack" happened at Sable Island, a tiny fingernail clipping of an island in the Atlantic Ocean, 180 miles east of Halifax, Nova Scotia.  The uninhabited island is a wildlife preserve protected by the Canadian government.

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