Zuiyo-maru carcass
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zuiyo-maru-carcass-180-10812609
title:
Zuiyo-maru carcass
text:
Zuiyo-maru carcass The Zuiyo-maru carcass 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. Although several scientists insisted it was "not a fish, whale, or any other mammal", analysis of amino acids in the corpse's muscle tissue later indicated it was most likely the carcass of a basking shark. Decomposing
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Basking shark corpse caught in 1977
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiyo-maru_carcass
date created:
2005-08-17T21:06:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T11:16:22Z
main entity:
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