Posted on 02/19/2003 10:55:59 AM PST by green team 1999
Skeletal remains of unknown creature found at Lumut beach
By Liza Mohd
What seems to be the skeletal remains of a big, unknown creature estimated to be 20 feet long was found washed ashore in Lumut beach yesterday. The stench resulting from the abandoned skeletal remains had caught the attention of a Brunei LNG Sdn Bhd security guard who was patrolling the area Sunday morning.
"We were patrolling the said area in our car when we were hit by the overwhelming odour of carcass. We discovered that it came from the skeletal remains of a huge unknown creature," one of the security officers said.
Some flesh could still be seen on the remains, which resembled the tail of the creature. There were still other small joint skeletal remains scattered about five feet away from each other but no one was able to make out what the creature was. Part of the bones was also buried under sand.
The skeletal remains of the unknown creature might have been washed ashore a few days back as a piece of the bone bore a signature, an indication that someone else had stumbled upon the remains and had left his mark.
The police have already been called to investigate the matter.
Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin
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Probably the first thing they will do is have someone familiar with baskers look at the backbone since several of these recent sea monster discoveries turned out to be baskers. Here is a recent example
Abstract
A decayed carcass accidentally netted by a Japanese trawler near New Zealand in 1977 has often been claimed by creationists and others to be a likely plesiosaur or prehistoric "sea-monster." Plesiosaurs were a group of long-necked, predatory marine reptiles with four paddle-like limbs, thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.
However, several lines of evidence, including lab results from tissue samples taken from the carcass before it was discarded, strongly point to the specimen being a shark, and most likely a basking shark. This should not be surprising, since basking sharks are known to decompose into "pseudoplesiosaur" forms, and their carcasses have been mistaken for "sea-monsters" many times in the past.
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