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.
2006-08-31 16:56:12 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The link seems clean. I'm getting the standard ping attack on my firewall but no viruses or malware.
Anyway the skelton is quite obviously some sort of toothed whale. The teeth, the skull shape, the size are all perfectly consistent with that. Any zoologist would be able to spot that just from the photographs. My guess is that it is simply a beluga whale.
Take a look at the photos of beluga and porpoise skeletons I've included below for comparison.
As for the "hair", that is just collagen fibres in the skin. They become exposed as the skin decay. It is perfectly normal in corpses fished ofm the ocean. Nothing to do with hair.
I'm not a cetactean expert but there is nothing remarkable or even very interesting about it that I can see.
2006-08-31 17:10:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is not an alligator or crocodile. The teeth belong to a mammal. So, a long mammal that might wash up on the shore? Some kind of whale or dolphin. Maybe a baby Killer Whale. Maybe an old dolphin. The skeleton is very beat up, and it i hard to say with those poor pictures.
;-D Probably covered in seaweed not hair!
2006-08-31 17:32:51 · answer #2 · answered by China Jon 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well we do know, that a good percentage of the living things in the ocean are undiscovered. we are discovering new living things in the ocean (especially deep ocean) every day.
it looks like it could be a dinosaur, or a relative of one....
my personal opinion? nobodies going to want to hear this, but it might be a hoax. anybody can take apart a couple of different skeletons and make up one mis-matched body (and then cover it up conveniently with hair, or rotting flesh) the little flesh thats still left on the tail could have been from just about any reptile with a big tail. the important thing is, there isnt really any flesh left on the parts of the skeleton that look like they might have been joined together. if they did have flesh, that would debunk my entire theory.
2006-08-31 17:09:37 · answer #3 · answered by ASLotaku 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure..
In the mid to late 70's there was a huge partially decayed carcass caught in the nets of of - I want to say Japanese - fishermen.. off of some coast. Everyone thought it to be the remains of a water type dinosaur.. Someone caught wind of this and suddenly, the nets were cut.
It was written in the Milwaukee Journal - Milwaukee WI
2006-09-06 16:01:47 · answer #4 · answered by sassy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that, my friend, is the skeleton of a plaseosaurus or similar marine dinosaur - or in everyday terms, the loch ness monster. yes dinosaurs do exist, and yes, it's only a matter of time before one is captured alive.
laff if you will, and I'm sure the experts will either disclaim these photos as a hoax, or claim the carcass to be a basking shark or whatever - just as they did with the carcass they dragged onto the Japanese fishing vessel years ago.
what fun
2006-08-31 17:03:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Remember the Coelacanth and Homo Floresiensis discoveries ? I would be cautious and reserve judgement. I'd like to see more of the skeletal structure and, possibly, see some DNA test results checked against all known creatures of similar form.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis (ID questions remain)
2006-09-07 02:28:36 · answer #6 · answered by D A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks like a crocidile or an alligator, but it has like a long tail--like an oversized eel w/ a crocidile/alligator head and jaw very interesting
2006-08-31 17:02:18 · answer #7 · answered by Ev 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
that is amazing....it's nothing i have ever seen before....this has got to be a HUGE find! it's definitely not an alligator or crocodile or a fish of any kind.....this has to be an illusive "dinosaur"....
2006-08-31 17:07:55 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ Haylow ♥ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not sure sure look like alligator but without leg... moer like fish i think, is probably some fish species we haven;t found yet, u never maybe is a alligator fish evolution etc..
2006-08-31 17:02:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Looks like a saltwater croc to me. Or a hoax
2006-08-31 17:05:07 · answer #10 · answered by Skeff 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋