Comments on: Mystery Photos: Sea Serpent or Plesiosaur? Name That Carcass! More to Chew On!

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:36:46 +0000

attempted to upload drawings, failed. Redrawing and trying again. (good grief, you’d think I’d have more time on my hands.)

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 19:02:29 +0000

D’oh! Well now that I look at it closer, this just doesn’t look right for a pliosaur. It all points to either a mosasaur or primitive whale. The rear limb is, either way, vestigial. The roughly circular marks, based on a discussion here at the still small SCCZ, appear to be about a foot in diameter, and a lamprey would have to be freakishly large, (on the order of up to 12 feet), to do that, so we settled on a cookie-cutter shark, which is still unusually large, (up to twice its usual size, at 1+1/2 feet), but far more plausible.

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:21:28 +0000

Well, first I have to find my digital camera and upload it to my computer, but sure.

By: Kayaker

Kayaker — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:53:48 +0000

Cryptoinformant,

If you’ll email me your drawing, I’ll evaluate it and see if I’d like to add it to my site. ropes12@comcast.net.

Mike

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:25:12 +0000

I don’t know how to upload pictures yet, but should figure out soon.

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:38:20 +0000

Any guesses on what memo it missed, but T-Rex, Trilobites, and sea scorpions got?

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:07:59 +0000

I will e-mail in the drawing as soon as possible.

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:06:49 +0000

Based on all the photos, I have done a drawing that shows both sides of the creature, and it turns out that the side withe the appendage is the VENTRAL surface, or the belly of the beastie, and the appendage itself is definitely not whole, but a damaged flipper attached to a ball-and-socket hip joint.

If it is a whale, which is very possible, then it is primitive. If it is a pliosaur, then, like the ceolocanth, it seems to have missed an important memo.

By: Erwaco

Erwaco — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:09:54 +0000

Although i would love for this to be a extinct species i do think that it is a whale carcass that washed ashore.

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:00:58 +0000

No, no others tangle with the giant squid. Because of Mr. Cenedella’s comments about the nice, fresh, rot-free smell, I would say the creature actually hadn’t been dead very long. It could have died not too far off shore, and washed up overnight. The whale penis still doesn’t fit, because you can see the shape of muscles and bone. The curve in it fits the basic bite shape for a Great White Shark, which always attacks from below, suggesting that the shark was only testing for edibility, and slammed into the flipper, breaking it to where it rests nearly on the back and rips off a chunk with enough force to decapitate a seal.

Could be a primitive whale, a pliosaur, however, just appears more plausible except for the 65 million years of extinction. (Anyone say Coelacanth?)