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The Zuiyo-maru carcass (ニューネッシー, Nyū Nesshii, literally "New Nessie") was a corpse, caught by the Japanese fishing trawler Zuiyō Maru (瑞洋丸) off the coast of New Zealand in 1977. The carcass's peculiar appearance resulted in speculation that it might be the remains of a sea serpent or prehistoric plesiosaur .
Sea serpent reported by Hans Egede, Bishop of Greenland, in 1734 A sea monster depicted in mid-Atlantic in Petrus Plancius' 1592 map of New France. Sea monster accounts are found in virtually all cultures that have contact with the sea.
Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most eye-catching stories from the past week. → Deep-sea creature — with yellowy tentacles and over 80 feet — is new species
A whale carcass, initially unidentified due to decomposition, was found washed ashore at Muriwai Beach, 42 kilometres from the centre of Auckland in New Zealand, in March 1965. At some point in time it was dubbed a " globster " , after the Tasmanian Globster , a whale carcass found in Australia a few years earlier.
The newly discovered seamount off the coast of Chile is 3,109 meters or 1.9 miles tall. ... squids and creatures known as flying spaghetti monsters, some of which hadn’t been well documented ...
The skull of a pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, was discovered on a beach in Dorset, England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.
Linguists have reconstructed the word taniwha to Proto-Oceanic *tanifa, with the meaning "shark species".In Tongan and Niuean, tenifa refers to a large dangerous shark, as does the Samoan tanifa; the Tokelauan tanifa is a sea-monster that eats people.
Deep underwater off the coast of Japan, a sea creature with hundreds of tentacles swayed in the current. Unbeknownst to the rust-colored animal, it was about to be discovered as a new species.