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From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Modern Pleisiosaur?
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Date: 17 Oct 90 18:34:43 GMT
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In <720@argosy.UUCP> freeman@argosy.UUCP (Jay R. Freeman) writes:
>decomposed and perhaps also badly mauled carcass of a large shark,
>such as a whale shark.

This was featured on an episode of "Arthur Clarke's Mysterious
World". Photos, and sketches by a marine biologist of the decay
of a whale shark made a pretty convincing case for this prosaic
explanation.