Mystery AtlasNaden Harbour Carcass
A roughly 3.8-metre carcass with a camel-like head and serpentine body found in the stomach of a sperm whale processed at the Naden Harbour whaling station, British Columbia, in July 1937; photographed, but the specimen itself was lost soon after examination.
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Theories & Explanations
Naden Harbour Carcass served as the basis for Cadborosaurus willsi Naming Proposal — Bousfield and LeBlond treated the 1937 carcass photographs as physical evidence supporting their formal species description.
People
Naden Harbour Carcass was criticised by Darren Naish — Naish argued the carcass more plausibly represents a decomposed, mangled shark or fetal whale than a novel species, disputing Bousfield and LeBlond's reading of the tail structure as a modified paired hind limb.
Creatures & Figures
Naden Harbour Carcass is an instance of Cadborosaurus — The carcass is the case most often cited as physical evidence for Cadborosaurus, though its identity as the cryptid rather than a known animal is disputed.
Concepts & Beliefs
Naden Harbour Carcass is frequently compared to Globster — Both involve a decayed carcass whose unfamiliar post-mortem appearance was mistaken for evidence of an unknown species; Darren Naish's leading explanation for the Naden Harbour carcass, a mangled shark or fetal whale distorted by decomposition, is the same mechanism behind most resolved globster cases.