Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!emory!gatech!mcnc!decwrl!argosy!freeman From: freeman@argosy.UUCP (Jay R. Freeman) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Modern Pleisiosaur? Message-ID: <720@argosy.UUCP> Date: 16 Oct 90 21:22:19 GMT References: <794@hutto.UUCP> Sender: news@argosy.UUCP Reply-To: freeman@cleo.UUCP (Jay R. Freeman) Organization: MasPar Computer Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 16 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