Does anyone have a clue what type of animal this is?? I've never seen any type of animal quite like this before. IMO it's definitely not a whale because of it's long slender neck. According to the article, a qualified scientist examined the corpse and declared it to be some type of plesiosaur.

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P.S I know this site is kind of biased but these are the best picks that I could find.

Does anyone else think the head looks like it doesn't have any eyes?

Try look the picture upside down. No, seriously! Go on!
Tell me what you think afterward...

I can't really comprehend what your getting at, when i flipped the image it looked kind of like it was two images spliced together.

looks like a giant eel

The interesting thing about these pictures are the fact that the animal is still in pretty good shape. Usually unidentified corpses are so decayed that no one has a clue what they really looked like. This thing looks really bizzare, looks as if it has a thin long neck and a gigantic head.

Maybe these are the creatures that ppl call Cadbourosaurs (sp).

looks like the remains of a Bottlenose whale to me... IMO

^That's right, I also suspect it's either a dolphin or a whale, maybe a pilot whale...

I don't understand how it could be a whale. This thing looks as if its got some sort of long neck. I don't know, maybe I'm blind.

No, you are not blind. The long neck is actually it's spine. Try look harder and don't set your mind with "it's a plesiosaur pic" at the first time...

yeah plus
a plesiosaur wouldnt have a head that large
and also you would see thin long teath juting out somewhat like a crocs teeth

^Right...the teeth! That's exactly a sea mammals' teeth...

it appears too large for a dolphin, and the snout is longer than a pilot whale... IMO

yeah, I agree about the size and shape of the skull, and it should be hard to miss jutting teeth, clearly not a plesiosaur... IMO

LINK-> Images for Chapter 14 ~ Marine Reptiles

Here's a better site with more info LINK

I found this part to be particularily interesting:

E.L. Wallace, a man who served twice as president of the Natural History Society of British Columbia. He had the following to say about the animal:


"My examination of the monster was quite thorough. I felt in its mouth and found it had no teeth. Its head is large and its neck fully twenty feet long. The body is weak and the tail is only three feet in length from the end of the backbone. These facts do away with the whale theory, as the backbone of a whale is far larger than any bone in this animal. Again, its tail is too weak for an animal of the deep and does away with that last version.

"With a bill like it possesses, it must have lived on herbage . . . I would call it a type of plesiosaurus."

IMO I don't think this animal is a plesiosaurus or a whale. I think it's some type of undiscovered species of sea animal.

LOL, your link claims it was identified long ago as a Baird's Beaked Whale, the author of that site just doesn't want to believe that explanation... IMO

LOL yea, I hadn't read the bottom of the article yet when I posted that link.

I duno, I still find it wierd how the first guy identified it.

EDIT: OK, after some more research I'm now 95% sure that it was a Biards beak whale. Notice the almost identical head shape Whale pic I guess the illusion of a long neck was caused by decay.

Damn whale !! you ruined my childhood fantasies!!

capo does have a good piont. Many other people have identifies this animal as some sort of whale. And the website greenclumps gave to prove the thoery of it being a plesiosaur sites the main reason for believing it's a plesiosaur is because the scientist thought that the animal was a herbaviour. The only problem with that is plesiosaurs were carnivorous. Ya, it's probably a whale. Not another one....

whale!

See, when I do that, it looks slightly like a pinniped... You're looking at a seal's bum, and the "jaws" are actually its flippers. I know it's not, like, but it looks a wee bit like that.