Preserved Dinosaur Picture

[Shirtdog]

I remember maybe 15 years ago or so I saw a large ship that had hooked on
it a dinosaur, almost perfectly preserved from the ocean, I seem to remember
it was an Oriental vessel, and the dino was a large brachiosaurus type. Does
anyone know where I could look for this on the internet? Or have you seen
it? It was on the front page of my home town newspaper, so it was shown many
places I'm sure. Thanks for any help you can give.

[Julia Manton]

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:26:57 -0600, "Shirtdog" <shir...@newrock.com>
wrote:

This sounds very like the photo of the supposed 'sea monster' hauled
up in 1977 by the Japanese fishing vessel 'Zuiyo Maru' off the coast
of New Zealand. The photos show a pleisosaur-shaped carcase about 33
feet long, but as it was so badly decomposed, the fishermen threw it
overboard after taking pictures & tissue samples.

Unfortunately, as is so often the case with these 'sea monster'
carcases, after analysis it turned out to be no more than a decomposed
shark, when a Tokyo biologist found elastodin (a protein found only in
sharks) in the samples.

The photos are in many Fortean-subject books, such as Karl Shuker's
'In Search of Prehistoric Survivors', and could well be on the Net
too, if you seach on keywords like the name of the vessel.

Julia Manton

"Run! You large, slow clowns!!"

[Dwight E. Howell]

Shirtdog wrote:

> I remember maybe 15 years ago or so I saw a large ship that had
> hooked on
> it a dinosaur, almost perfectly preserved from the ocean, I seem to
> remember
> it was an Oriental vessel, and the dino was a large brachiosaurus
> type. Does
> anyone know where I could look for this on the internet? Or have you
> seen
> it? It was on the front page of my home town newspaper, so it was
> shown many
> places I'm sure. Thanks for any help you can give.

Are you talking about the photo of the half rotted shark carcass?

No, I don't.