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02-09-2004, 10:52 PM
Japanese Says That Sea Creature Could Be Related to Shark SpeciesNew York Times July 26, 1977:
TOKYO, July 25 (AP)--A marine biologist says a 30-foot, two-ton sea creature netted by a Japanese trawler of New Zealand in April showed a biochemical makeup similar to that of a kind of shark.
A spokesman for Prof. Fujio Yasuda of Tokyo Fisheries University said today that a gas chromatography analysis of a whisker-like specimen from the creature showed it contained various amino acids seen in a species of shark, Prionace glauca [the blue shark], that usually grows to a maximum length of 18 feet.
"Yasuda stresed that the report is strictly tentative, and what it shows is only that the monster could have been a shark, not that it was nothing but a shark," the spokesman said. Prior to the chemical analysis, the professsor said the creature resembled an extinct sea reptile of 430 million years ago.
The trawler Zuiyo Maru fished up the dead creature and sent a specimen and photographs to Tokyo for analysis. The rotted carcass was thrown back because crewmen feared it would contaminate their catch.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.c om/day/dayimages/zuiyo_maru.jpg
In Apri 1977, thirty miled off the coast of Christchurch, New Zealand, the trawler's nets of a Japanese fishing boat, the Zuiyo-Maru, snared a huge animal carcass of an unknown origin. The crew hauled the monsterous body out of the ocean onto the deck, and Michihiko Yano, the ship's assistant production manager, measured the creature and took some now-famous photographs. The creature was thirty-three feet llong and weighed about four thousand pounds. it had a snakeike head at the end of a long neck, giving it an unwhae-like appearance. Some of the crew thought it was a rotten whale, but others were not so sure.
After great difficulty the stinking Zuiyo-Maru monster was thrown overboard. Media attention in Japan focused on the pllesiosaur-ike appearance of the creature. Interest in sea serpents rose. Toys were produced of the Zuiyo-Maru Monster. But Yano had taken samples of the horny fiber from one of the monster's fins. Tests determined that the Zuiyo-Maru monster was a decomposed basking shak.
Source: Crypto-Zoology A-Z
An alternative study by some revealed that the carcass had a possible shark connection but that the structure of the carcass was not consistent with a shark.
http://www.creationresearch .org/crsq/articles/38/38_1/images/Goertzen9.JPG
Obata and Tomoda (1978, pp. 46–48) said that the picture of the animal taken on the Zuiyo Maru deck, “shows the slender neck part connected to the high, strong built trunk [see Figure 9] and the thin, long tail bending forward. This aspect of the body is somewhat suggestive of the body structure of a tetrapod. ... The actual state of the carcass when it was being laid down is not to be disregarded in studying the character of this animal.” [see Figure 9.] Another observation was that “the putrefactive smell was not like that of teleostean fishes or sharks, but resembled that of marine mammals” (p. 49). Again, “the surface of the body was whitish and covered by dermal fibers which were intersecting each other like whales and other mammals but were not weak like fish.”
Yasuda and Taki state “... the animal has an extraordinarily long trunk. In no fish species attaining a large size is the trunk so elongate.” They are assuming the posterior flippers were on the cryptid, according to testimony.
So was this a great basking shark or was it a relic from the past, a dinosaur or some other imcredible creature that may still live in our oceans today, trawling the depths of the only last undiscovered country on the planet.
TOKYO, July 25 (AP)--A marine biologist says a 30-foot, two-ton sea creature netted by a Japanese trawler of New Zealand in April showed a biochemical makeup similar to that of a kind of shark.
A spokesman for Prof. Fujio Yasuda of Tokyo Fisheries University said today that a gas chromatography analysis of a whisker-like specimen from the creature showed it contained various amino acids seen in a species of shark, Prionace glauca [the blue shark], that usually grows to a maximum length of 18 feet.
"Yasuda stresed that the report is strictly tentative, and what it shows is only that the monster could have been a shark, not that it was nothing but a shark," the spokesman said. Prior to the chemical analysis, the professsor said the creature resembled an extinct sea reptile of 430 million years ago.
The trawler Zuiyo Maru fished up the dead creature and sent a specimen and photographs to Tokyo for analysis. The rotted carcass was thrown back because crewmen feared it would contaminate their catch.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.c om/day/dayimages/zuiyo_maru.jpg
In Apri 1977, thirty miled off the coast of Christchurch, New Zealand, the trawler's nets of a Japanese fishing boat, the Zuiyo-Maru, snared a huge animal carcass of an unknown origin. The crew hauled the monsterous body out of the ocean onto the deck, and Michihiko Yano, the ship's assistant production manager, measured the creature and took some now-famous photographs. The creature was thirty-three feet llong and weighed about four thousand pounds. it had a snakeike head at the end of a long neck, giving it an unwhae-like appearance. Some of the crew thought it was a rotten whale, but others were not so sure.
After great difficulty the stinking Zuiyo-Maru monster was thrown overboard. Media attention in Japan focused on the pllesiosaur-ike appearance of the creature. Interest in sea serpents rose. Toys were produced of the Zuiyo-Maru Monster. But Yano had taken samples of the horny fiber from one of the monster's fins. Tests determined that the Zuiyo-Maru monster was a decomposed basking shak.
Source: Crypto-Zoology A-Z
An alternative study by some revealed that the carcass had a possible shark connection but that the structure of the carcass was not consistent with a shark.
http://www.creationresearch .org/crsq/articles/38/38_1/images/Goertzen9.JPG
Obata and Tomoda (1978, pp. 46–48) said that the picture of the animal taken on the Zuiyo Maru deck, “shows the slender neck part connected to the high, strong built trunk [see Figure 9] and the thin, long tail bending forward. This aspect of the body is somewhat suggestive of the body structure of a tetrapod. ... The actual state of the carcass when it was being laid down is not to be disregarded in studying the character of this animal.” [see Figure 9.] Another observation was that “the putrefactive smell was not like that of teleostean fishes or sharks, but resembled that of marine mammals” (p. 49). Again, “the surface of the body was whitish and covered by dermal fibers which were intersecting each other like whales and other mammals but were not weak like fish.”
Yasuda and Taki state “... the animal has an extraordinarily long trunk. In no fish species attaining a large size is the trunk so elongate.” They are assuming the posterior flippers were on the cryptid, according to testimony.
So was this a great basking shark or was it a relic from the past, a dinosaur or some other imcredible creature that may still live in our oceans today, trawling the depths of the only last undiscovered country on the planet.