Always found this an odd case. The picture isn't that clear i know. This animal was washed up after a violent 3 day storm on Ataka Bay Egypt in 1950. Although it has characteristics of a Whale Marine Biologists and Zoologists could never identify what the creature was.

That's one ugly whale .

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Last I knew they had indentified the creature as a whale with its lower jaw rotted off so just the bones of the jaw were exposed making the creature appear to have tusks of some sort.

Thats sounds a sensible theory i guess. The front of it though looks strange to be a whale imo. I can't really find much links on the creature and the incident. Where did you read about the theory with lower jaw rotting off? Could you possibly provide a link at all? There abit of info on Shadowlands but nothing much more than a paragraph

I've actually been trying to find the website that I read that theory off of, but I havnet been able to find it yet. As soon as I do though, I'll be sure to provide the link.

Edit: Score! I found the link!

http://www.americanmonsters.com/monsters/c...le&idarticle=32

Yup, definately a whale..

Cheers for that picture mate, i have only ever seen one half of it and the full pic makes it much clearer

shouldn't DNA sample prove if it was a whale or not. I can not believe that the scientific community can not identify the the origin of the carcase, unless it has no record of similar DNA.

Myself, i think it`s an whale.

[attachmentid=23506]I think that will all the scientific research done by the slaughter of whales by Japanese scientific research ships around the world, we should have undeniable evidence on all good eating, I mean all documented sea going Mammals DNA. So why can't we identify it.

Looks to me like a rotting whale or shark carcass

It has been more or less concluded that this was a dead right whale, whose upper jaw had decayed, and the exposed jaw bones spread out like tusks. The Attaka carcass is lying on its back, so the upper jaw and exposed mouth parts are underneath, as is the blowhole and eyes.

Notice the flesh curled up around the 'tusks'....that's left over from the jaw.

Hummm.....I think it's a whale like swordfish thingy i can't see it well anyone got gooder picture of this thing???

Whale like swordfish? There is no such thing....Swordfish, Marlin, and Sailfish have no resemblance what-so-ever to a whale...believe me, I've caught all of them...

There's a better picture in the link I posted.

Looks like a blue whale. Compare mouth area to this photo

so mean... (slaughter of whales)

In response to the mark about *Sword Fish like Whales* there are Whales which are sword-fishy I guess you could say they are the large horned Narwal http://www.oceanquestcharters.com/gallery/...es/Narwal_6.jpg

There are many things in this world that defies rational explanation. This photo may be one of them. The fact is....we know far more about outer space than we know about our ocean's depths. Consider this.....3/4 of the world's surface is under water. 1/3 of that is depths that exceed 10,000 feet.

Think about our geography on land. You have plateaus, flats, canyons, valleys, mountains, caves, etc. This is also applicable to our oceans, seas, etc. Same type of landscape but much broader! We have ownly scratched the surface when it comes to discovering the animals that lie within its watery habitat.

Scientist will never discover ALL the animals that reside in our oceans. Even if they find something significant, sea monster or other anomolies don't expect them to come forth with their findings. Too many recreational dollars at stake!