15 Creatures Discovered By Fisherman In New Zealand
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A WASHED-UP SEA MONSTER
Even though most of the things that wash up on New Zealand’s beaches are dead, that doesn’t make them any less terrifying. Even when those creatures turn out to be something we normally associate with wholesome family movies like Free Willy.
In 2013, a carcass washed ashore near Pukehina in the Bay Of Plenty that was so bizarre nobody could say what it was. It was clearly aquatic, given its location, but with only a set of deadly-looking chompers to go by it was hard to say what the creature could have been in life. Local residents guessed anything from a saltwater crocodile to a massive moray eel as an explanation for it’s long and toothy appearance.
Scientists eventually determined it was actually an orca that had decomposed in the sea and somehow been washed ashore, but for a while there people thought there was an actual new species of sea monster about to be discovered.
A WASHED-UP SEA MONSTER
Even though most of the things that wash up on New Zealand’s beaches are dead, that doesn’t make them any less terrifying. Even when those creatures turn out to be something we normally associate with wholesome family movies like Free Willy.
In 2013, a carcass washed ashore near Pukehina in the Bay Of Plenty that was so bizarre nobody could say what it was. It was clearly aquatic, given its location, but with only a set of deadly-looking chompers to go by it was hard to say what the creature could have been in life. Local residents guessed anything from a saltwater crocodile to a massive moray eel as an explanation for it’s long and toothy appearance.
Scientists eventually determined it was actually an orca that had decomposed in the sea and somehow been washed ashore, but for a while there people thought there was an actual new species of sea monster about to be discovered.
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15 February 2023
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