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Article #1217Re: Modern Pleisiosaur?
From: Jay R. Freeman
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 21:22
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 21:22
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In article <794@hutto.UUCP> henry@hutto.uucp (Henry Melton) writes:
>Can anyone tell me about a possible pleisosaur snagged near
>Christchurch, New Zealand on April 10, 1977? I have a multi-generation
>xerox of a photo of the beast being hauled out of the water with a
>crane and I have no idea where the photo and accompanying text came
>from.
I remember that photo. At the time, I asked a friend who was a
paleontologist. She said that the consensus among the knowledgeable
people she knew, who had seen the photo, was that it was a badly
decomposed and perhaps also badly mauled carcass of a large shark,
such as a whale shark.
-- Jay Freeman
<canonical disclaimer -- I speak only for myself>
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