A porpoise was found dead on a beach in Norfolk.
Joel Saggers was walking to work just south of the breakwater in Great Yarmouth this morning when he came across the stranded animal which was "lolling" in the waves.
He said: "It was beautiful, but regrettably dead.
"I couldn't see any visible wounds or obvious cause of death. There were also no signs of decomposition so it had only recently died."
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Mr Saggers said it was the second such porpoise he had found dead on the same stretch of beach in the past five years.
He added: "It's always tempting to assume they meet a sticky end with a boat propeller or having ingested plastic waste - but I expect it simply died of natural causes."
It has since been reported to the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme and Great Yarmouth Borough Council for removal.
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