1937 mystery carcass still divides experts over its identity

3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 7

The 3-metre remains, found in a sperm whale’s stomach at Haida Gwaii, are now widely argued by scientists to be a decomposed basking shark.
Cryptozoologist John Kirk rejects that view, saying lost samples and surviving photographs leave open the possibility of an unknown marine mammal rather than a shark.
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