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Fascinating finds Leon.
I have no ideas about what animal(s) the bones come from but dugong certainly sounds good for at least some of it. it did occur to me that some forms of fishing used chunks of animal in the pots as bait, so at least some bits of bone found on beaches could be from land animals. I once worked on a crayboat as a deckie and various unsavoury bits were put in the pots. The ranker the better.
Some are apparently not allowed as bait now , but of course it probably depends on how old the bones are, and of course how legal the fisherman is....
I hope you get good ID on all your finds.
EDIT: WAIT! That toothy jaw.... it's the missing body of Lord Lucan isn't it?
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