What is this creature?

Does anybody know what the hell this is?
If it has been posted before please point me in the right direction.



I think it was caught by a Japanese fishing boat.
I've had this picture for years and honestly just forgot about it until now. I don't remember where I found it on the web but at the time nobody seemed to know what it was. And now I can't find the site or the picture anymore.

that's an old old photo. it's one of several things, a whale carcass, some other sea animal's carcass, or a creature similar or related to a pleisiosaur (sp). been debated nonstop for at least 10 years that i can remember, and several times on this site.

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Yeah it looks like a Carcass

*brings up dinner*

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i bet they ate it lol they eat anything that comes out of the ocean

personally I doubt it is a whale carcass, the head is to small. IMO I believe it to be an undiscovered cryptid, maybe an offshoot of a plesiosaur of some type. This photo was taken on April 25th 1977, on the Japanese fishing trawler Zuiyo-Maru in New Zealand waters. To bad no one bothered to get DNA to store for further testing.

Also type up Plesiosaur on google image, and you will find it again.



And just to reply to pcrobotwolf, they did not eat any of it because it was rotted so bad, within a couple hours of trying to figure out what it was they dropped it back into the ocean, because of fear of getting sick, and contamination of their catch.

I know it just made me gag on my cheeseburger...

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Thanks for the info I thought it was a Japanese Boat.

2nd

Officially for me it's still unknown.

The popularly accepted answer is that it's the rotting carcass of a large basking or whale shark or some sort of Large Marine mammal with it's mouth and other parts missing from rotting off.



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Well some think it was a rotting Basking Shark carcass while others think it was a Plesiosaur. You decide.


Sea Monster or Shark

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i see it now that I looked at your photo's, the flippers are a giveaway.

Thanks, btw does Slayer stand for the music group? Reign in Blood is one of my favorite albums!

hmmm nom nom nom, dinners up!

Looks like it used to be a horse a long time ago to me. Now it is just a nasty carcass.

It had a spine, so it wasn't a shark.

They took samples yet I've never seen the results published anywhere.

Plesiosaur.

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Ed Milliband or Ed Balls....... not sure which yet

Regards

PDUK

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I'm pretty sure this carcass was proven to be that of a basking shark a while back.

Originally posted by CalgaryFlames
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I'm pretty sure this carcass was proven to be that of a basking shark a while back.

How can it be a basking shark if it has a spine made out of bone? Sharks don't have bones, only cartiledge.

My sources for it having a bone spine come from books over 20 years old, not from unreliable crap from the internet either.

Btw, I have heard of some kind of rare whale that has a long neck that apparently still exists today, but it's been years since I've seen articles on it and it was probably bogus information. Anybody on ATS know anything more about it?

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Google "basking shark carcass"... Who says the carcass in the picture doesn't have a spine?

Sharks actually do have spines, simply made of cartilage instead of bone.

I'm 99% confident that it's a rotting carcass of some known creature, probably a shark. The other 1% would come from seeing it.

Basking shark