Mystery AtlasZuiyo-maru Carcass
A decayed carcass with a plesiosaur-like silhouette hauled up by the Japanese trawler Zuiyo Maru off New Zealand on 25 April 1977, photographed and sampled before being dumped back into the sea; amino-acid analysis later identified it as a basking shark.
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Creatures & Figures
- Loch Ness Monstermodern legend from 1933
Zuiyo-maru Carcass is frequently compared to Loch Ness Monster — The carcass's initial plesiosaur misidentification directly reinforced popular belief in the plesiosaur theory of the Loch Ness Monster, though the carcass itself was identified as a decomposed basking shark.
Concepts & Beliefs
Zuiyo-maru Carcass is an instance of Globster — A shark-carcass globster whose plesiosaur-like decomposition made it the field's most visually convincing case.