Mystery "monster" baffles experts

What bothers me is that the head shape doesn't look right for the posted whales. The whales have more rounded heads, while the monster's looks flat with a rounded snout. Well first of, the seal you keep posting pictures of is a leopard seal, you don't get them in the UK, only the 2 seals I posted pictures of an neither of them fit the criteria. I can see how it looks like a leopard seal though, but then even a leopard seal can't cause 2 humps like that, the 2 humps would make it far too long so it would have to be 2 of them. But as I said no leopard seals around the UK. So it being a leopard s... [More]

Hi, I'm new to the forum. I'm a teacher and I do research and make contributions to various authors's works. I just wanted to say how impressed I am with this site and it's members. So interesting!!!!! I don't ever remember a seal looking like that!!!

Hi, I'm new to the forum. I'm a teacher and I do research and make contributions to various authors's works. I just wanted to say how impressed I am with this site and it's members. So interesting!!!!! I don't ever remember a seal looking like that!!! Hi, welcome to the forum! This is a very good community on this site. It's good for getting different views from different types of people.

Well first of, the seal you keep posting pictures of is a leopard seal, you don't get them in the UK, only the 2 seals I posted pictures of an neither of them fit the criteria. I can see how it looks like a leopard seal though, but then even a leopard seal can't cause 2 humps like that, the 2 humps would make it far too long so it would have to be 2 of them. But as I said no leopard seals around the UK. So it being a leopard seal is ruled out. The head isn't as square as it appears, remember it's a blurry rubbish image and to be honest it's the usual "monster" picture. If this wasn't such a ba... [More]

The first picture doesn't look anything like a whale. Was the second taken by the guy as well, or is it just a whale pic tossed in to make people assume that's what this was?? In any case, that's NOT the mouth of a basking shark.

I thought the head did look more like a seal. Couldn't the body shot be two seals? People keep saying this is too big for a seal. What is the scale being generated from? The head pic, to me, looks like it is 10 to 20 degrees off from being a profile shot, so we are looking into the mouth actually. That would suggest that the lips on the mouth are rounded toward the lower jaw. And this is something I've seen in the local seal pics, but not the whales. I'll put a crude Paint pic to show what I mean. Also the seals seem to sometimes stick out their tongues when they call out, and the whales not a... [More]

Dolphin?

I still think its a Whale. Its tongue is too wide to be a Seal tongue, its head is too broad, and its skin refracts light in the same way a wet whale or dolphin does.

OMG! It's a lochness monster

Whale shark maybe?