Mysterious Dragon-like creature washes ashore in Spain!

[Skeeterdeee]

I thought this was really neat! A strange dead fish of some sort washed up on a beach in Spain! It looks like it’s got big horns on it’s head!

Dragon corpse washes ashore in Spain

[Chloe]

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. I wish there were more photos….

[Skigod377]

Oh that is frickin flippy O.O

[Zelda]

Looks like a big rotting fish corpse to me! Seagulls probably picked off the skin and scales, taking all of the yummy fat with it. The pharyngeal arches look like they’ve flipped up and out of position to form the ‘horns’ on the head, likely a result of this critter drying out in the hot sun.

Bet it smells lovely, hah!

BTW there was another ‘floating sea monster corpse’ story that cropped up recently. That one was a dead whale.

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[Sirithiliel]

More than four meters in length, the only fish that could be is an Oar Fish I guess? Just in a advanced state of decomposition?

[Victoria]

I found another article that stated it was a shark, with, as Zelda said, some parts flipped around to not quite where they should be. Pretty neat, all the same!

[Sirithiliel]

wonder what part of the shark the ‘horns’ are haha

[Skeeterdeee]

I saw a new article about it on Yahoo News this morning, now I can’t find that article again!! Definitely a reeeeealy decomposed shark, so decomposed that the species hasn’t been determined. Still neat to think of Dragons swimming around in the parts of the oceans that we can’t see. 🙂

[Victoria]

Sirithiliel, I think it’s an internal part that has to connect some of the fins, or something like that? lol, definitely hard to visualize it properly with that much decomposition and ‘rearranging’!

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