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Video: Lawrence High School Students Perform Seal Autopsy

Class led through unique experiment by BOCES and the Riverhead Foundation.

science class recently got an unusual opportunity: the chance to dissect a five-month-old grey seal, which had washed up dead on the shores of Long Island only days before.

Specialists from BOCES led the students through the detailed necropsy of the seal in an attempt to figure out what exactly led to the creature's demise.

WARNING: This video contains minor amounts graphic material.

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