{"id":7957,"date":"2011-07-22T07:37:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T01:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=7957"},"modified":"2012-11-16T13:29:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:29:40","slug":"mystery-monster-washes-up-on-british-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2011\/07\/mystery-monster-washes-up-on-british-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"MYSTERY MONSTER WASHES UP ON BRITISH BEACH!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/curious-carcasses\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-842\" title=\"curious-carcasses\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/curious-carcasses.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2016781\/Lock-Ness-Monsters-little-brother-Couple-discover-30ft-sea-creature-carcass.html\" target=\"_\">Daily Mail<\/a> has reported that a couple walking their dogs discover 30-foot carcass of a strange sea creature rotting on beach.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Margaret and Nick Flippence were shocked to find the rotting body of a <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/sea-monsters\/\" target=\"_\">SEA MONSTER<\/a> while walking and exercising their dogs along a beach at Bridge of Don in\u00a0 Aberdeen, England. Nick had this to say about the discovery:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We were stunned. I thought, oh my God what is it? It&#8217;s like nothing we have ever seen, it almost looks pre-historic.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The couple found the <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/curious-carcasses\/\" target=\"_\">CURIOUS CARCASS<\/a> curled up by the foot of sand dunes. Apparently the remains of this <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/unclassified\/\" target=\"_\">UNCLASSIFIED<\/a> creature still had a head, tail and discernible teeth. Experts are now examining the pictures with one suggesting it could be the body of\u00a0 a whale. A spokesman for the Natural History Museum claimed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have spoken to one of our mammals curators, and they have confirmed the animal is probably a long-finned pilot whale &#8212; Globicephala melas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Aberdeen_monster.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7962\" title=\"Aberdeen_monster\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Aberdeen_monster-253x300.jpg?resize=253%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Whatever this carcass turns out to be&#8230; it&#8217;s a sight these folks will likely never forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Mail has reported that a couple walking their dogs discover 30-foot carcass of a strange sea creature rotting on beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[85,264,1121,95],"class_list":{"0":"post-7957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-curious-carcass","9":"tag-new","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sea-monster"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Aberdeen_monster21.jpg?fit=634%2C359&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10098,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions\/10098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}