# What did I find on the beach? Is it a fish or mammal Vertibrae? (pics)

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**Created:** [January 22, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-i-find-on-the-beach-is-it-a-fish-or-mammal-vertibrae-pics/388910 "2007-01-22T01:44:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-i-find-on-the-beach-is-it-a-fish-or-mammal-vertibrae-pics/388910/21 "2007-01-23T14:30:37Z")

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[QUOTE=Phlosphr]  
It’s a private beach, in Long Island Sound. We do get a lot of tankers and such going by…but they are at least 12 miles offshore. No butchers or other such things in the area. I’ll chaulk it up to happenstance I guess. Someway, somehow this vert. found it’s way to this beach…  
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Given the ship traffic through the sound, plus the population density around it, I wouldn’t be surprised to find almost anything washed up around it. And it could have been tossed off a pleasure boat rather than a tanker.

Bear in mind that when the bone first entered the water it could have still had some meat attached, and so could have floated some distance.

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