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Beachgoers in South Carolina recently stumbled upon an eerie, skeleton-like dolphin sprawled across the sand, where it may have been slowly drying out for months. One expert suggests that the animal may have accidentally become stranded after deliberately beaching itself. On Jan. 14, the Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network (LMMN) received a call about a "mummified dolphin" near Hilton Head Island, the organization's representatives wrote in a Facebook post . LMMN volunteer Amber Kuehn, a marine biologist and coordinator of the Hilton Head Island Sea Turtle Patrol , visited the site to measure and collect skin and teeth samples from the body, before burying the remains on the beach.  The dolphin was most likely a common bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus ) and was around 8 feet (2.4 meters) long, Kuehn told Live Science in an email. It was unclear how old or what sex the dolphin was, she added.   "It wasn't actually mummified," Kuehn said. "It wa...

A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four months in prison after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books deemed to be “seditious publications.” HONG KONG -- A Hong Kong man was sentenced to four months in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to importing children ’s books that were deemed to be “seditious publications.” Kurt Leung, a 38-year-old clerk, was sentenced after he admitted to importing 18 children’s books featuring wolves and sheep. He was arrested in March after he signed for a delivery from the U.K. containing the books. The books feature sheep that lived in a village and had to defend themselves against wolves. In the series of books , the sheep take action such as going on strike or escaping by boat, which are said to allude to incidents such as the 2019 anti-government protests and the detention of the 12 Hong Kongers who attempted to escape by sea. Authorities say that the books are an attempt at inciting hatred in young children and stirring up conte...