Sea monster found on the beach of Aberdeen, UK

21.07.11.
20th July 2011

A couple were left shocked when they discovered the rotting body of a sea monster while walking along a beach.

Margaret and Nick Flippence made the incredible find as they exercised their dogs at Bridge of Don, Aberdeen.

Mr Flippence, 59, who lives nearby, said: 'We were stunned. I thought, "oh my God what is it?"

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Comment by Caryn D on February 9, 2012 at 1:45am: Wow - thanks Malou for the awesome link to the video of the super-chillin-not-quite-frozen-frill shark - Wikipedia enlightened me further, now here. That's something you don't see every day!!! Sea monsters, indeed!

Comment by Malou (Marie Louise) Geleff on February 5, 2012 at 10:18am: And here´s another one from Iceland of all places, spotted alive and well on February 2nd. this year :

http://www.ruv.is/frett/er-thetta-lagarfljotsormurinn

VIDEO AT LINK !!

Comment by Malou (Marie Louise) Geleff on July 22, 2011 at 9:41am: From the link to Frill Shark, which Howard provided below :

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Frill Shark: Loch Ness or Living Fossil?

By Jennifer Viegas

In 2007, a fisherman near Tokyo, Japan, told Awashiwa Marine Park officials that he’d just seen a very unusual eel-like creature with needle-sharp teeth. Staff at the park followed the fisherman, who directed them to the 5-foot-long oddity. They caught the creature, which was later identified as a frilled shark.

The frilled shark has been called everything from a “sea serpent” to a real-life “Loch Ness Monster” over the years in places where it lives, such as southeast Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, West Africa, Chileand the Caribbean. A more accurate nickname is “the living fossil,” since this shark belongs to a primitive species that has changed very little over millions of years.

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Comment by Malou (Marie Louise) Geleff on July 22, 2011 at 9:36am: Completely amazing !!! Yes, Howard´s an expert digger !! For sure !

I, too, would´ve never thought of a shark in that context, but seeing that picture, I can see why - and why I wouldn´t have thought so !

We´ve been getting stray whales up here in Danish waters and it´s a sensation every time... Nothing yet this year..

As we here can´t determine anything, we can still wonder how many more "missing links" might be "out there".

And thanks Kris H for your info on the Chinese Sea Monster : yes, it could´ve been a whale, I guess.. had a much more roundish shape than this one...

Comment by MegaMontana on July 21, 2011 at 9:54pm: Wow Howard, you're a master of investigation. That seems like a very likely match. If only those teeth were still intact, we'd know 100%, but it looks like the frill shark is a match. Either way, Zetas are right about sea creatures on the move North as the oceans heat from the bottom up.

Comment by Jeagle on July 21, 2011 at 8:12pm: The backbone of this creature looks much like the bones found on Andøya on the coast of northern Norway some years ago. I took care of some of the bones, and had them sent to a monsterhunting friend of mine in Sweden, who in turn had scientist take look at it. Their conclusion was that it was a baskin shark. However; I was not convinced, but we never had the bones or any other part DNA-tested.

The scull and the flesh was gone when I got there, taken by winter storm, local scavengers and souvenir hunters, but what was left had a striking resemblance to the findings in Scotland.

My belief is that this is an unknown species, and maybe a young Nessie, who I believe wanders the oceans like the eel, before it settles in it's native lake to breed..

Comment by BERNADINO on July 21, 2011 at 7:05pm: wow amazing would a shark look like that dead it looks like it has bone anyway must have been quite a animal either way

Comment by Howard on July 21, 2011 at 6:58pm: Possibly a large Frill Shark, usually found in waters off southeast Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, West Africa, Chile and the Caribbean.

Reiterating MegaMontana's comment:

"As has been noted in recent years, tropical creatures are migrating North along coastlines, and overland, due to the general warming of the crust." ZetaTalk