In April 1977 the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, pulled up a decomposing carcass about 10 meters long. The Zuiyo-maru carcass had "a 1.5-m-long neck, four large, reddish fins, and a tail about 2.0 m long," and its appearance "resulted in speculation that it might be the remains of a sea serpent or prehistoric plesiosaur." — Read the rest The post A 1977 trawler hauled up a carcass that Japan took for a se…
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