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API found some strange mysterious bones of a whale like sea creature with two tusks while exploring an isolated island museum recently
The dimensions of the beasts taken by the natives after it was washed ashore are as follows:
Length of tail to the head 12.40 m
Length of tail alone = 1.8 m
Length of tusk = 2.4 m
Skin Thickness : 10 cm
Length of theFin : 78 cm
Width of the fin : 47 cm
Head Skull
Rib Bone
Tusk – this is the most special feature of this whale like creature.
Tusk Bone
Backbone
Complete skeleton
Diet found after the beast died.Bones found:
Eye bone – 1
Thin back joint bones – 44
Joint Bones – 8
Joint hinge – 8
Tail bone – 1
Backbone spine – 1
Rib Bone – 12
and Penis bone – 1
Prelimary classication:Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Chordata, Class: Mammalia, Order: Cetacea
Suborder – Odontoceti (?)
Odontoceti : Toothed whale with single blowhole. Narwhal belong to this suborder
I believe that this creature is the Narwals, a single-tusked sea mammal about the size of beluga whales.
http://pr.tennessee.edu/alumnus/fall96/narwhals.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/species/Narwhal.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/nmml/education/cetaceans/narwhal2.htmAccording to http://www.whalesfilm.com/narw.htm:
Young Narwhals are bluish gray in color, but adults are distinctively marked with leopard-like spots. The Narwhal diet consists mostly of squid, crabs, shrimps and fish. Narwhals are also among the most vocal of whale species, producing a variety of clicks and whistling sounds. Estimates of population size for Narwhals ranges between 10,000 and 20,000.
It should look like that:
(source: Public Broadcasting Service [PBS])The above are just some information found upon preliminary searches on this creature. It is also sometimes passionately associated with the unicorns because of its single tusk that seemed to be like a horn. It is in the family of whales. The tusk was found to be a sensory organ by scientists in a research.
BUT… this creature you found is said to be 2 tusked. Possible matches include the odobenocetops:
Its two 25cm tusks made Odobenocetops look like a cross between a walrus and a manatee. In males only, the right hand tusk grew much larger – up to 1.35m long. It didn’t have any teeth.
It cruised in shallow water staying close to the seabed where it was safest. One species had an echolocation organ, similar to that of modern dolphins.
By grubbing around in the mud, Odobenocetops found worms and shellfish to eat. Muscular lips allowed it to suck clams out of their shells.
Odobenocetops was an air-breathing mammal so had to rise to the surface in between dives. It used its powerful tail to swim around. It had good eyesight but despite its size, Odobenocetops had little defence against sharks. The tusks were not strong enough to be much use in a fight.
(source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/seamonsters/factfiles/odobenocetops.shtml)
But this creature’s supposed to be a prehistoric creature of the dolphin family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odobenocetops
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00015.x?cookieSet=1&journalCode=zoj
(Source: BBC)An abstract from a research entitled “Dimorphic tusks and adaptive strategies in a new species of walrus-like dolphin (Odobenocetopsidae) from the Pliocene of Peru (Défenses dimorphiques et stratégies adaptatives chez une nouvelle espèce de dauphin convergent vers les morses (Odobenocetopsidae) du Pliocène de Pérou)” said:
Three new specimens of the walrus-like dolphin Odobenocetops from the Pliocene of Peru, shed new light on the anatomy and adaptive strategies of this unique Cetacean. Odobenocetops leptodon nov. sp. is represented by a skull, which bears a 135-cm-long needle-like right tusk and a small 25-cm-long left tusk the apex of which was erupted. The long tusk was probably held almost parallel to the axis of the body when swimming. In contrast to O. peruvianus, O. leptodon probably had a small melon and, therefore, echolocation ability, but had reduced (or no) binocular vision. A skull of O. peruvianus with two small tusks similar in size is referred to a female.
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1943750
Other references:
http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/whales/evolution_of_whales/
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v365/n6448/abs/365745a0.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_cetaceansQuestions for Fengshui:
where was it found? Where’s this isolated island museum?
If it is far from its land of origin, then the question will be why this creature had roamed so far from home.
And please don’t mind my ignorance, but I can hardly make out the actual physical look of the creature with these photographs (wish there’s an aerial photo of it!!)
Can you draft a portrait / cross-section view of the carcass or something? Can’t tell if the tusk is one that is grown upwards or on the sides.
I have looked more closely at the bones and the pictures. Unless there is fresh evidence indicating otherwise, this is most likely that of a toothed whale, (likely sperm whale), whose head have decomposed to leave behind a jawbone that look like tusks. The marks on the jawbone looks like teeth.
Sperm whale jaw bone (the bigger one belong to the blue whale. The picture of “tusk” found is for comparsion
Sperm whale jawbone with teeth
picture of “tusk” with teeth like marks found in museumConclusion : You decide
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API found some strange mysterious bones of a whale like sea creature with two tusks while exploring an isolated island museum recently
The dimensions of the beasts taken by the natives after it was washed ashore are as follows:
Length of tail to the head 12.40 m
Length of tail alone = 1.8 m
Length of tusk = 2.4 m
Skin Thickness : 10 cm
Length of theFin : 78 cm
Width of the fin : 47 cm
Head Skull
Rib Bone
Tusk – this is the most special feature of this whale like creature.
Tusk Bone
Backbone
Complete skeleton
Diet found after the beast died.Bones found:
Eye bone – 1
Thin back joint bones – 44
Joint Bones – 8
Joint hinge – 8
Tail bone – 1
Backbone spine – 1
Rib Bone – 12
and Penis bone – 1
Prelimary classication:Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Chordata, Class: Mammalia, Order: Cetacea
Suborder – Odontoceti (?)
Odontoceti : Toothed whale with single blowhole. Narwhal belong to this suborder
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I believe that this creature is the Narwals, a single-tusked sea mammal about the size of beluga whales.
http://pr.tennessee.edu/alumnus/fall96/narwhals.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/species/Narwhal.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/nmml/education/cetaceans/narwhal2.htmAccording to http://www.whalesfilm.com/narw.htm:
Young Narwhals are bluish gray in color, but adults are distinctively marked with leopard-like spots. The Narwhal diet consists mostly of squid, crabs, shrimps and fish. Narwhals are also among the most vocal of whale species, producing a variety of clicks and whistling sounds. Estimates of population size for Narwhals ranges between 10,000 and 20,000.
It should look like that:
(source: Public Broadcasting Service [PBS])The above are just some information found upon preliminary searches on this creature. It is also sometimes passionately associated with the unicorns because of its single tusk that seemed to be like a horn. It is in the family of whales. The tusk was found to be a sensory organ by scientists in a research.
BUT… this creature you found is said to be 2 tusked. Possible matches include the odobenocetops:
Its two 25cm tusks made Odobenocetops look like a cross between a walrus and a manatee. In males only, the right hand tusk grew much larger – up to 1.35m long. It didn’t have any teeth.
It cruised in shallow water staying close to the seabed where it was safest. One species had an echolocation organ, similar to that of modern dolphins.
By grubbing around in the mud, Odobenocetops found worms and shellfish to eat. Muscular lips allowed it to suck clams out of their shells.
Odobenocetops was an air-breathing mammal so had to rise to the surface in between dives. It used its powerful tail to swim around. It had good eyesight but despite its size, Odobenocetops had little defence against sharks. The tusks were not strong enough to be much use in a fight.
(source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/seamonsters/factfiles/odobenocetops.shtml)
But this creature’s supposed to be a prehistoric creature of the dolphin family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odobenocetops
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00015.x?cookieSet=1&journalCode=zoj
(Source: BBC)An abstract from a research entitled “Dimorphic tusks and adaptive strategies in a new species of walrus-like dolphin (Odobenocetopsidae) from the Pliocene of Peru (Défenses dimorphiques et stratégies adaptatives chez une nouvelle espèce de dauphin convergent vers les morses (Odobenocetopsidae) du Pliocène de Pérou)” said:
Three new specimens of the walrus-like dolphin Odobenocetops from the Pliocene of Peru, shed new light on the anatomy and adaptive strategies of this unique Cetacean. Odobenocetops leptodon nov. sp. is represented by a skull, which bears a 135-cm-long needle-like right tusk and a small 25-cm-long left tusk the apex of which was erupted. The long tusk was probably held almost parallel to the axis of the body when swimming. In contrast to O. peruvianus, O. leptodon probably had a small melon and, therefore, echolocation ability, but had reduced (or no) binocular vision. A skull of O. peruvianus with two small tusks similar in size is referred to a female.
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1943750
Other references:
http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/whales/evolution_of_whales/
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v365/n6448/abs/365745a0.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_cetaceansQuestions for Fengshui:
where was it found? Where’s this isolated island museum?
If it is far from its land of origin, then the question will be why this creature had roamed so far from home.
And please don’t mind my ignorance, but I can hardly make out the actual physical look of the creature with these photographs (wish there’s an aerial photo of it!!)
Can you draft a portrait / cross-section view of the carcass or something? Can’t tell if the tusk is one that is grown upwards or on the sides.
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I have looked more closely at the bones and the pictures. Unless there is fresh evidence indicating otherwise, this is most likely that of a toothed whale, (likely sperm whale), whose head have decomposed to leave behind a jawbone that look like tusks. The marks on the jawbone looks like teeth.
Sperm whale jaw bone (the bigger one belong to the blue whale. The picture of “tusk” found is for comparsion
Sperm whale jawbone with teeth
picture of “tusk” with teeth like marks found in museumConclusion : You decide
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