Mysterious skull identified after washing up on New Jersey beach

Accu Weather ^ | Jun. 3, 2021 2:13 PM EDT | Adriana Navarro,

[deport]

Part of a massive animal skull washed up on a New Jersey beach on Memorial Day after a storm passed through the area, and authorities have finally solved the mystery as to what it is.

On Tuesday, the Island Beach State Park, in Berkeley Township, New Jersey, posted photos on Facebook of a massive skull with a beak shape some found to be reminiscent of a long-extinct dinosaur.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Island Beach State Park confirmed that it was the ventral, or lower, jaw and skull of a minke whale.

[Carriage Hill]

Looked like a bird to me.

[doorgunner69]

Those clowns go all tacticool to check out a washed up skull?

[miserare]

What beautiful creatures they are!

[Slyfox]

You beat me to it!

[Wilderness Conservative]

Little Pussy had quite the shznozolla.

[grey_whiskers]

First thing I thought of, you beat me to it!

[Covenantor]

Clouseau, "Ave you a license for that minkey?"

[Rennes Templar]

That minke appears to have a bimp on its head.

[jmacusa]

Island Beach is about half an hour south of me.

It’s a nice place, upscale, nice beaches. I didn’t think small whales like the Minke were off those waters.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Jauque Clousteau?

[Vaquero]

Yeah. Autocorrect