13-year-old finds rare £100 Lego octopus from 1997 cargo ship spill on Cornwall beach.

13-year-old Liutauras Cemolonskas discovered a rare Lego octopus worth £100 on a Cornwall beach, believed to have originated from a 1997 cargo ship spill that lost nearly 5 million Lego pieces. Only 4,200 octopuses were onboard. Beachcomber Tracey Williams, who runs the Lego Lost At Sea project, is documenting washed-up Lego pieces and aims to create a scientific paper on their drift patterns.

April 27, 2024
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