It was not your average day at the beach for gym teacher Tugrul Metin. The 29-year-old was
splashing in the waves in Izmir, on Turkey's west coast, when a
shocking sight washed up onto the sand in front of him.
Metin discovered
the body of a decease two-headed dolphin, which measured about a meter (3.28 feet) and was estimated to be about a year old.
Metin
told the Turkish Times, "I couldn't take it in at first — I thought my
eyes were playing tricks on me." He added that one of the heads' eyes
was not fully opened, nor was one of the blowholes.
Police
removed the body of the dolphin from the beach, and an associate
professor from Ak Deniz University will begin studying it. The
professor, Mehmet Gokoglu, told press that he looked forward to
analyzing the unique animal: "Such a dolphin is a very rare occurrence —
similar to the occurrence of conjoined human twins."
