This bizarre-looking 9m-long corpse washed ashore last week in New Zealand, fuelling speculation that it is the remains of a prehistoric sea monster washed up ashore from the deep.
This latest “monster” carcass is the latest in a long line of discoveries of bizarre, rotting corpses mistakenly identified as sea monsters or dinosaurs, or even just mysterious “blobsters”.
Marine mammal expert Anton Van Heldon examined the latest ‘monster’ carcass in New Zealand and believes it is a killer whale, based on the fin structure. Killer whales, or orcas, are sometimes spotted in the Bay of Plenty.
The teeth of killer whales (Orcinus orca) and those from the false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) look very similiar without further analysis so this was probably the reason why he used the fin for identification. The flippers of P. crassidens are "narrow, short and pointed" while those of O. orca are rounded. This is the case in one of the pictures of this carcass.
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