New Zealand Plesiosaur (1977).The Lost Carcass.

Basking sharks reported as "sea serpents" or as other "monsters"—

The remains of basking sharks have been reported as "sea serpents" on several occasions; nor is this astonishing. "As the carcass of the shark rots on the shore, or is buffeted against the rocks, the whole of the gristly skeleton of the jaws and gill arches . . . as well as the pectoral and pelvic fins, is soon washed away,"[65] leaving only the cranium and the long backbone, with larger or smaller amounts of muscle, so frayed out as to suggest a hairy or bristly mane. As a recent instance from the Gulf of Maine, we may cite the newspaper and radio publicity, that was given, as a supposed sea serpent, to a basking shark skeleton, about 25 feet long, that beached near Provincetown on the outer shore of Cape Cod, in January 1937, that we examined.[66]

A more spectacular instance of the fanciful interpretation that is likely to be placed on any large stranded carcass that has decayed partially, was the famous "Animal of Stronsa," that came ashore on the island of that name in the Orkneys, in September 1808. It was pictured by an eyewitness as having three pairs of limbs, but the published illustration of its cranium, vertebrae, and pelvic skeleton[67] show that it was only the remains of some very large shark, probably a basking shark. It has also been suggested repeatedly that some of the stories of sea monsters of one sort or another may have been based on the dorsal and caudal fins of two or more basking sharks, swimming one behind another as they often do (we dare not touch further on the controversial subject of the "sea serpent").

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[ashesoneeight]

Knowing the japanese they ate it and dont want to admit it

[setitoffboy89]

bull shit you find somthing like that you dont put back in

[awomerock]

Sushi!!!!

[nummydoughnuts]

Oh Pleis, your making me saur!

[pghs26]

that looks like a nazgul o_o

[fromtheheart1006]

@ashesoneeight DAAAAASSSS WAAAIIISSSSIIISSSS

[ulan4901]

@ulan4901 if they were Chinese, man that's a lot of dumpling. lol

[ulan4901]

@ashesoneeight hahahahaha

[MrMicklethal]

@setitoffboy89 It was a rotting carcass... if they kept in onboard it stood a huge chance of contaminating their entire catch.. remember this was a fishing trawler they stood to lose alot of money. Ever smell spoiled milk?? Multiply that by one hundred thousand and that's how bad the odor was. Besides they did remove small pieces for later testing.

[XxToxicSpikesxX]

They SAY it was thrown back, but is that really what happened? :o