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From: horvath@granite.cr.bull.com (John Horvath)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Modern Pleisiosaur?
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.142847.2248@granite.cr.bull.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 14:28:47 GMT
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If the pictures is the same one I've seen in another book, the story 
was that the remains of a creature were picked up by a Japanese
fishing boat. The remains appeared to be more like an ancient reptile
than a fish. The people on board took a picture of it, that's been
reprinted so many times. Then because the creature smelt so bad, they
tossed it back into the ocean.

Sounds like just the kind of incident to build wild stories on.
In similar incidents, these mysterious dinosaur remains turn out
to be creatively eaten remains of whales.