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This apparent Plesiosaur washed up on Moore's Beach (now Natural Bridges State Beach) in Monterey Bay, California in 1925. The neck was described as being about 20 feet long. Some scientists postulated that it was an extremely rare type of beaked whale, while others believed it to be a variety of plesiosaur. After thoroughly examining the carcass, the renowned naturalist E. L. Wallace concluded that the creature could not be a whale and might be a plesiosaur that had been preserved and subsequently melted out of glacial ice. The story is given in Randall Reinsted's 1975 book Shipwrecks and Sea Monsters. It is also prominently featured in Skin Diver magazine of November, 1989 which discusses the Monterey Submarine Canyon. This mysterious underwater trench extends many miles into the Pacific and is one of the least studied ocean chasms.
Originally posted by Ben81
Its a Dolphin
Originally posted by purplemer
Originally posted by Ben81
Its a Dolphin
It looks to big to be a dolphin to me.. Unless you get big dolphins ofc..
Originally posted by Gemwolf
As far as I know the animal is generally accepted to be a Baird's Beaked Whale (not a dolphin).
Be warned: When you go Googling for images of this whale: The Japanese kill these whales as well, so you're going to find some gruesome images.
Originally posted by OccamsRazor04
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Perhaps there is more information I am unaware of, but as I understand it all the evidence is gone so we may never know.edit on 22-5-2012 by OccamsRazor04 because: (no reason given)