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Unknown creature found by soldiers(Russia)-Cryptozoology
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Posted on 08/28/2006 10:23:33 AM PDT by Marius3188

This creature was found by Russian soldiers on Sakhalin shoreline. Sakhalin area is situated near to Japan, it’s the most eastern part of Russia, almost 5000 miles to East from Moscow (Russia is huge). People don’t know who is it. According to the bones and teeth - it is not a fish. According to its skeleton - it’s not a crocodile or alligator. It has a skin with hair or fur. It has been said that it was taken by Russian special services for in-depth studies, and we are lucky that people who encountered it first made those photos before it was brought away.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Russia; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: animal; beluga; creature; crypto; cryptobiology; cryptozoology; fringe; hoax; itsadog; mystery; ohsomysteriouso; russia
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To: Mark Felton
Resemblance to a seal

61 posted on 08/28/2006 10:43:21 AM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: Marius3188


The teeth would seem to be of a grass/vegetable eater, rather than a meat eater (carnivor).




62 posted on 08/28/2006 10:43:27 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: 7thson
Aw man, you beat me to it!

Great minds!

63 posted on 08/28/2006 10:43:48 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Smedley

Looks like a Skexie to me too!!!


64 posted on 08/28/2006 10:43:59 AM PDT by KeepUSfree (WOSD = fascism pure and simple.)
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To: NavyCanDo
Never mind, I just looked at the photos. Just shot down my hopes on it being a Mermaid.

It's the mermaid that Muslim mermen get - 72 of 'em. Humans get Helen Thomas.

65 posted on 08/28/2006 10:43:59 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Freedom isn't free, but the men and women of the military will pay most of your share)
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To: Marius3188

http://www.skullsunlimited.com/beluga_whale_skull.html

The teeth are pointier in the linked pic, but the skull shape is very similar.

Are we lucky that when Algor invented the net, he chose to exclude scratch-n-sniff capabilities?


66 posted on 08/28/2006 10:44:05 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: Marius3188
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67 posted on 08/28/2006 10:44:28 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: elfman2

It's what I thought.


68 posted on 08/28/2006 10:45:18 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: DBrow

I was looking there too. My guess, killer whale, yet it looks like it has molars or old teeth.

http://www.skullsunlimited.com/Killer_Whale.html


69 posted on 08/28/2006 10:45:27 AM PDT by Marius3188 (Happy Resurrection Weekend)
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To: Publius

"We're both looking for the blowhole."

Looks like the skin was pushed off the top of the mandible, up onto the head. I think I can see eye sockets in one photo, about 2/3 of the way back.

This is an obvious air-breather, but the lack of nostrils would seem to indicate a blow hole of some kind. Gosh I wish I could go there and have a look at this thing in person.

With luck, it won't just disappear into some warehouse somewhere without being thoroughly examined. It does not have the look of a fake.


70 posted on 08/28/2006 10:45:28 AM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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To: Smedley

I agree - critter from Dark Crystal :)


71 posted on 08/28/2006 10:45:38 AM PDT by Chili Girl
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To: Marius3188
The animal is a juvenile toothed whale. It's hard to tell the exact species because of it's advanced decay, but there is little doubt in my mind that the photo is of the near-skeletal remains of a juvenile toothed whale, several species of which are natural to that area.

Many people aren't aware of this, but the heads of many toothed whale species are primarily muscle and fat. In an orca, for example, two thirds of the "head" is actually some sort of meat. Unless you do marine biology for a living, it's unlikely that anyone here would identify an orca skull as such. I really doubt that the skull in that photo is orca because the teeth are wrong, but there are a half dozen other possibilities in the world.

For comparison:

72 posted on 08/28/2006 10:45:52 AM PDT by Arthalion
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To: BigTex5

Ye Gads, it's my ex-wife!!!


73 posted on 08/28/2006 10:46:01 AM PDT by ImpBill ("America ... Where are you now?")
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To: Marius3188
"People don’t know who is it. "

hugh series and hugh.

74 posted on 08/28/2006 10:46:59 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Publius

How about those ventral ridges on the spine, clear to the end of the tail. That's typical of mososaurs and other similar fossils. It's very atypical of any modern animals I'm aware of.


75 posted on 08/28/2006 10:47:23 AM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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To: Lady Jag

However, the body lacks ambulocetus' legs. (Maybe they rotted away.) It looks like a descendant of ambulocetus that took a more streamlined shape, much like the earliest whales.


76 posted on 08/28/2006 10:47:41 AM PDT by Publius
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

It died from second hand smoke. LOL


77 posted on 08/28/2006 10:48:12 AM PDT by fish hawk (Terror : in a cave in Afghanistan. Treason: in a cave-in , in the Democratic Party)
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To: Arthalion

"in the world." should have read "in that part of the world."


78 posted on 08/28/2006 10:48:26 AM PDT by Arthalion
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To: Marius3188
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79 posted on 08/28/2006 10:49:37 AM PDT by MarkeyD (The tree of liberty must from time to time be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: Arthalion

It's certainly possible that it's a modern whale of some sort. The big problem is all that skin covering things up. Are there legs anywhere on this thing? I cannot tell.


80 posted on 08/28/2006 10:49:56 AM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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