MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

“More than 50 New Zealand fur seals have washed up dead on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula and will be examined at Adelaide University to determine how they died.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources said the bodies of 51 juveniles and two young adults were found near Port Lincoln and at Wanna Beach in the Lincoln National Park.

Dr Lucy Woolford from Adelaide University says three seals have been collected for post-mortem examinations, which will be conducted on Tuesday morning.

‘These seals appear to have died a few days ago, so they’re in a state of decomposition so we’re trying to see how much information we can gain from those,’ she said.

‘[We have found] no immediate signs of injury from the seals we’ve looked at so far.’

The South Australian Museum’s mammal researcher, zoologist Dr Catherine Kemper, says she has never heard of so many deaths in one instance before.” Read more.