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“Nessie” in Alaska ?
last update: Jul 20, 2011 04:43 PM
From a “Mail Online” article: Does Alaska have it's own Loch Ness monster ? In 2009, a local fisherman captured the unidentified creature on film. Of course, comparisons to Scotland's infamous Loch Ness Monster are being drawn.
Scientists believe that the large creature, 20 to 30ft long with humps on its back, could be a Cadborosaurus - a type of sea serpent that got its name from Cadboro Bay in British Columbia and is said to roam the North Pacific.
Paul LeBlond, former head of the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of British Columbia, told Discovery News: 'I am quite impressed with the video. Although it was shot under rainy circumstances in a bouncy ship, it's very genuine.'
The Cadborosaurus willsi, meaning 'reptile' or 'lizard' from Cadboro Bay, is an alleged sea serpent from the North Pacific thought to have a long neck, a horse-like head, large eyes, and back bumps that stick out of the water.
Sightings have been reported for years.
In 1937, a supposed body of the animal was found in the stomach of a whale captured by the Naden Harbour whaling station in the Queen Charlotte Islands, a British Columbia archipelago. Then, samples of the animal were brought to the Provincial Museum in Victoria, where curator Francis Kermode concluded they belonged to a fetal baleen whale. Mysteriously, the animal's remains, however, later disappeared.
Like other cryptids, animals whose existence is suggested but not yet recognised by scientific consensus, the Cadborosaurus has existed only in grainy photographs and eyewitness accounts.
John Kirk, president of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, agrees, describing the video as being 'important.' He said: 'The fishermen simply don't know what they have got in terms of the creatures in this video.'
Read:
Mail Online, 19th July 2011
