We often hear that now more and more more species animals are dying out or are on the verge of extinction, and their complete disappearance is only a matter of time. Hunting, destruction of natural habitats, climate change and other factors have led to the fact that the rate of loss of animal species is 1000 times greater than the rate of restoration of the natural background. And although the extinction of animals is always sad, sometimes for us humans, it can even be beneficial.
From 40-foot-long mega-snakes to giraffe-sized flying creatures, check out this list of 25 animals you wouldn't be happy to be around.
1. Pelagornis Sandersi
With a wingspan of around 7 meters, Pelargonis Sandersi was apparently the largest flying bird ever to have lived on Earth. It looks like she could only fly by pushing off a cliff, and most spent her life above the ocean, relying on the currents of the wind rising from the ocean to stay "afloat". Although compared to pterosaurs, whose wingspan was almost 12 meters, this bird was still quite "moderate" in size.
Similar to modern centipedes in form and behavior, Euphoberia had one major difference - it was over 90 cm long! While scientists aren't entirely sure what it actually fed on, we do know that some modern centipedes feed on birds, snakes, and bats. If a 25 cm centipede could hunt birds, imagine who a nearly meter long centipede could hunt!
3. Gigantopithecus
The Gigantopithecus lived between 9 million and 100,000 years ago in present-day Asia. It was the largest species of monkey on Earth. It is believed that this creature up to 3 meters high and weighing up to 540 kg walked on four legs, like gorillas and chimpanzees, but some believe that they could walk on two limbs, like people. The properties of their teeth and jaws suggest that these animals were able to chew through coarse, fibrous food by cutting into and grinding it.
4. Andrewsarchus
This cutie lived during the Eocene, about 45-30 million years ago. Andrewsarchus was a huge carnivorous mammal. Given the found skull and several bones, paleontologists suggest that this predator could weigh up to 1800 kg, which makes it the largest land mammal in history. However, the feeding behavior of this animal is not well understood, and some theories suggest that the Andrewsarchs may have been omnivores or even scavengers.
5. Pulmonoscorpius
The scientific name of this creature translates as "breathing scorpion". He lived in the Visean era (c. 345-330 million years ago) of the Carboniferous period. Based on fossils found in Scotland, scientists believe that this species reached 76 cm in length. He lived on land and probably fed on small arthropods.
6. Megalania
Megalania lived in South Australia. It was a huge lizard that became extinct about 30,000 years ago, which means that the first Aborigines of Australia could well meet it. Scientists disagree about the size of this lizard - it may have reached 7 meters in length, making megalania the largest land lizard in history.
7. Helicoprion
One of the prehistoric centenarians (310-250 million years ago) - helicoprion - is a genus of extinct shark-like creatures with an interesting jaw. Reached 4 m in length, but its closest living relatives - chimeras - can reach only 1.5 m in length.
8. Entelodons
Unlike their modern relatives, entelodons were boar-like mammals with a special gourmet attitude towards meat. Arguably one of the scariest-looking creatures in history, the entelodon walked on all fours and was almost human tall. Some scientists believe that entelodons were even cannibals. Well, if they ate each other, do you think they wouldn't want to eat human flesh?
9. Anomalocaris
Probably lived in all the seas of the Cambrian period. In translation, its name means "abnormal shrimp." This is a genus of marine animals, close relatives of arthropods. Scientists believe that it preyed on hard-bodied marine life, including trilobites. They had unique eyes with 30,000 lenses - believed to be some of the most "advanced" eyes in the history of the species.
10. Meganeura
Meganeura is a genus of extinct insects from the Carboniferous period. Reminds modern dragonflies (and is related to them). With a wingspan of up to 66 cm, it is one of the largest flying insects in the history of our planet. Meganeura was a predator, and its diet consisted mainly of other insects and small amphibians.
Attercopus was a genus of arachnids with a scorpion-like tail. For a long time, Attercopus was considered the prehistoric ancestor of modern spiders, but scientists who discovered its traces soon came to a different opinion. It is unlikely that Attercopus wove a web, although it may have used it to wrap eggs, lay a gimp, or build the walls of its burrow.
Deinosuchus is an extinct relative of modern alligator crocodiles that lived 80-73 million years ago. Although he was larger than any of modern species He looked pretty much the same. It reached a length of 12 meters and had large sharp teeth capable of killing and devouring sea turtles, fish and even large dinosaurs.
Living at the end of the Devonian period about 380-360 million years ago, the Dunkleosteus was a huge super-predatory fish. Due to its terrifying size (up to 10 m in length and weighing almost 4 tons), it was the apex predator of its time. This fish had strong armor, which made it a relatively slow but very powerful swimmer.
Larger than Tyrannosaurus Rex, Spinosaurus is the largest carnivorous dinosaur of all time. It reached 18 m in length and weighed up to 10 tons. They ate tons of fish, turtles and even other dinosaurs. If this horror lived today, we most likely would not live.
Smilodons lived in North and South America during the Pleistocene era (2.5 million - 10,000 years ago). This is the best example of a saber-toothed cat. An excellent predator with especially well developed forelimbs and incredibly long sharp fangs. The largest individual could weigh up to 408 kg.
The wingspan of these creatures could reach an incredible 12 meters. This pterosaur was the largest ever flying creature, including among modern birds. However, it is very difficult to estimate the size and weight of these huge animals, because. no existing animal has the same body structure, so published results vary greatly. One of the characteristic features of these animals was that they all had unusually long and hard necks.
The name comes from the idea that these creatures are very strange, almost like a hallucination. These worm-like creatures were 0.5-3 cm long and lacked some of the sensory organs on their heads, such as eyes and nose. Instead, the hallucigenia had seven tentacles on each side of its body, as well as three pairs of tentacles behind them. To say that this is a strange creature is to say nothing.
An inhabitant of the Upper Carboniferous period (340-280 million years ago). Lived in what is now North America and Scotland. It was the largest land invertebrate species in history. Despite their enormous length of almost 2.7 meters, Arthropleura were not predators, they fed on rotting forest plants.
The short-faced bear is an extinct species of bear that lived in North America during the Pleistocene era up to 11,000 years ago, making it the "most recent" extinct creature on our list. However, its size is truly prehistoric. Standing on two hind legs, the bear reached 3.6 m in height and 4.2 meters if he raised his front paw up. It is believed that these giants weighed more than 1360 kg.
The name of this toothy monster is translated as "big tooth". This is an extinct species of huge shark that lived about 28-1.5 million years ago. Due to its incredible length of up to 18 meters, it is considered one of the largest and most powerful predators that have ever lived on Earth. Lived almost all over the world and looked like a larger and more terrifying version of the modern great white shark.
Living approximately 60-58 million years ago, during the Paleocene era, the titanoboa was the largest, longest and heaviest snake in history. Scientists believe that individual representatives of the species reached 12 meters in length and weighed about 1133 kg. Their diet consisted of giant crocodiles and turtles, with whom they shared what is now South America.
Also called "terrible birds", these prehistoric creatures are an extinct genus of large birds of prey that were the largest species in the world. South America during the Cenozoic period, about 60 million years ago. The largest flightless bird of prey ever to roam the earth. Reached 3 meters in height, weighed up to half a ton and, presumably, could run as fast as a cheetah.
Lived during the Ordovician period 470-460 million years ago. It is the giant ancestor of modern squid and octopus. most feature this mollusk had a huge cone-shaped shell and tentacles with which he caught fish and other marine life. It is believed that the size of its shell varied from 6 to 12 meters.
Carbonemys is an extinct genus of huge turtles that lived about 60 million years ago, i.e. they survived mass extinction dinosaurs. Fossils found in Colombia suggest that they had a shell that reached almost 1.8 meters. Turtles were carnivorous, with huge jaws powerful enough to eat large animals such as crocodiles.
Jaekelopterus, without a doubt, can be called one of the largest arthropods in the world - its length reached 2.5 meters. Sometimes it is called the "sea scorpion", but in fact it refers more to lobsters living in freshwater lakes and rivers of modern Western Europe. This terrible creature lived about 390 million years ago, earlier than most dinosaurs.
On September 5, 2005, due to an overload, the bus fell into the river. 5 people were seriously injured, while the remaining 47 received minor injuries. The number of passengers on the bus was exceeded by 20 people. After the incident, a Star newspaper reporter arrived at the scene and took a more than strange picture. If you zoom in, you can see the skull or head of a ghost, located on the left in the grass under the bridge. The people of Malaysia believe in creatures that only appear during tragedies or accidents. Many believe that these creatures are the cause of the tragedy.
Irish Bethany Harvey was shocked when she spotted a ghostly visitor in a photo she posed with her nephew. If you look closely, between Bethany and the child you can see a little girl in a purple dress with her hands folded in her lap. Harvey claims that at that moment she was alone with her sister and nephew. They sat facing the door to the living room. Since then, strange things have begun to happen in the living room and the sisters refuse to go there.
The drunk girls were relaxing in the Jacuzzi and decided to take a memorable picture, which, as it turned out later, was an uninvited guest. If you look closely at the enlarged image, you can clearly see the hand and head. Of course, you might think that this is some friend who decided to watch the girls, but since we see the absence of a face, it is as if smoky, and other parts of the body, then most likely we are again dealing with a ghost. It probably wouldn't hurt the girls to buy curtains for the bathroom, just in case.
This is a photograph of a girl on her thirteenth birthday, taken by her father in the morning, before the guests arrived. The father claims that she was the only child in the house. If you look at the left side, at the door, you can see a spot in the form of a child. The father added brightness and made the image clearer. Zooming in on the picture, we see a very angry face with clown makeup, or it's an angry spirit who came to the birthday girl for a holiday.
The person who took this picture in 2005 claims that he was alone near this house at the time of the picture. The house was abandoned and the authorities decided to burn it down in accordance with all the rules. The man took a digital camera and went to look at the burning of the old house. When he printed the photographs, he was shocked to see the outline of a woman holding a child close to her. They seemed to be looking in the direction of the firemen. The picture was taken across the street, because firefighters could not allow anyone to approach this place, and even more so a woman with a child.
A man noticed ghostly figures in the background when he wanted to photograph his niece Emmy in front of the castle in Staffordshire. In the back of the image, two figures in chain mail with a shield are indistinctly visible. Jones and the man in the red jumper were the only men there at the time.
This photo is nothing more than a group of friends on a bridge in China. But if you look closely, in the background we see a falling figure. There was a terrible fog caused by air pollution and the photographer had to adjust the camera in a special way. The photographer heard the sound and realized that he had become an accidental witness to the tragedy. That he was able to capture the moment of the fall. But what was his surprise when a few seconds later the woman climbed the bridge and jumped again. He was practically paralyzed, but he was able to take several shots in a row, almost at random. The photographer contacted the police with these shots, but they said that they did not find the bodies of the missing young people here for several weeks.
The history of this photo is quite popular. Small child, located in the lower right corner, refused to be photographed with the group, claiming that the boy there scared him. Mom mistook it for a random child's tantrum, but after the photos were printed, everyone noticed a ghostly child between the girls' legs. This child was not found in any of the subsequent photographs. The owners of the house where the photo was taken claim to have never encountered ghosts in their home.
They say the Spley pub in the UK is haunted by a ghost. A very good bartender was invited to this pub and a memorable photo was taken with him on an iPhone. Later, flipping through the photographs, they found a vague face that was not associated with the body.
Review your photos, maybe there is something strange and frightening in the form of a ghost, share in the comments.
News about the next discovery of some strange creature periodically appears on the Internet, the press and on television, giving rise to a sea of rumors and speculation. The unusual appearance of such creatures strikes our imagination, causing complete misunderstanding and fear. Indeed, how, from where and in what way could these ugly creatures be born? Falsification and staging is, perhaps, the only explanation that most people accept, trying to protect their logical and cozy little worlds from the new, incomprehensible and terrible. Protect from everything that they are not yet ready to perceive. Let's go through this list of perhaps the greatest fakes.
1. creepy monster taken by accident at night in the woods by an anonymous hunter in Berwick, Louisiana. Tellingly, the hunter himself did not see anything like this in the forest, and he discovered this creature in the frame only when he returned to his camp in Berwick and began to look through the photos he had taken. This photo was first shown on television on December 10, 2010 on NBC 33.
Here is an example of videos that began to appear on television one after another and were dedicated to this inexplicable event in that forest:
Some people began to draw parallels with a very strange creature previously filmed on video, which they even named Fallen Angel. Moreover, the video was also filmed in the forest and also at night. The two are indeed a bit similar. And in both cases, these strange creatures have remained an unsolved mystery.
2. Monster washed up on the beach in New York City. Local youth took a photo of this monster and then sold the strange photo to the press. Many versions of what this creature could be were put forward. But they are all unverifiable. Some experts claim that this is a prehistoric mammal that somehow miraculously managed to survive to this day. Another version claims that this is an ordinary turtle without a shell. One Larry Penny, director of the East Hampton Natural Resources Director, along with other experts, claim that it was the decaying corpse of a common raccoon. Although many more adequate people claim that Larry Penny and his colleagues smoke very unusual weed, since this incomprehensible creature with a raccoon there is as much similarity as it is observed, for example, in a butterfly with rattlesnake. Those. and this mystery remains unsolved.
3. alien baby, caught by a farmer in Metepetz, Mexico. Farmer Mario Moreno Lopez discovered this ugly creature on May 11, 2007. It fell into the grip of a trap, which was intended for catching rats. When Mario Moreno Lopez discovered this creature in his barn, it was still alive and the farmer had to throw it into a barrel of water to drown this freak. On the third try, he succeeded.
The creature is quite tiny in size, its total length, including the tail, is no more than 20 centimeters. It had a large elongated head, which probably indicated the presence of intelligence, and its skin had no hair at all. There were several attempts to explain where such a creature could come from, one of the versions is that it is a squirrel or a monkey that was flayed. Another version is that this child of an alien fell into the trap of a farmer. By the way, shortly after this amazing find, farmer Lopez was burned alive in his car. This fact gave rise to fans of the version of the UFO to claim that this was revenge on the farmer for his relative. In any case, the appearance of the creature remained a mystery, since scientists who analyzed the skin tissues of this creature found that they are unique in nature and are not a fake.
4. Terror of the Blue Hills (The Blue Hill Horror). September 17, 2009 four teenagers playing near the famous blue hills volcano Cerro Azul on Isabela Island (Panama, Galapagos Islands) discovered a very strange creature that crawled out of one of the caves and began to chase them. Therefore, the guys decided to throw stones at the creature in defense, and thus killed it, and the body was pushed into the water.
As a result, the experts who examined this body came to the conclusion that the boys were lying a little, and that this creature could not chase them, since it had been in a state of natural decomposition of the corpse for several days. Most likely, this strange creature is nothing more than a sloth that died a few days ago, in which all the hair fell out in some incomprehensible way and only a naked body remained.
5. Alien corpse and Thai ceremony. I don’t quite understand how this could be attributed to aliens, if hooves are clearly visible on all limbs, which means that the creature is 100% terrestrial. The image of this creature spread very quickly on blogs on the network, after in a Thai village in 2007 his corpse took part in a local ceremony. His appearance it resembles a Satyr - it has the same head, short legs with hooves, the same tail. Some say that the ceremony was performed to ward off the evil that this creature embodied from the village. Others argue that this creature was for the villagers - a kind of deity, so he was buried with such honors. More adequate people argue that this unprecedented beast is just a deformed calf of an ordinary cow, which could have been injured by falling from a great height. And they bury him with honors, because in these parts cows are sacred animals. There is also a hypothesis that this strange creature is the result of unsuccessful gene experiments. Therefore, due to the abundance of possible versions, we will consider this riddle unsolved.
You won't believe what strange anomalous creatures there are in wild nature! While nature does a good job of keeping order, sometimes things go awry. From radioactive mutants to rare hybrids, living beings find their way to mutate.
Sometimes they grow an extra leg, have a second head, or do things that are contrary to what needs to be done to survive. And, if humanity continues to destroy animal habitats, promote overpopulation, pollute and poison the earth, the anomaly of such creatures may well become the norm. Here are 25 strange anomalous creatures found in the wild.
25. California Sheephead
The California Sheephead is a rare and endangered species with anomalous and unique qualities. The strangest thing about him is his chin and human teeth. This creature uses its teeth to crush its prey.
24. Hybrid of white and brown bear
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A hybrid of a polar and brown bear (Grolar), also called Pizzly, the father or mother in this case is a polar polar bear and a grizzly bear, this hybrid bear was discovered in the wild. Bears are incredibly rare, and scientists are concerned that this could be a signal that polar bears are not surviving well in the wild.
23. Horned orb-web spider
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The Long-Horned Orb-Weaver is an incredibly bizarre creature. Its long horns do not appear to be used for its intended purpose other than to deter predators. The length of the horns varies, but some can be up to 45 mm long.
22. Hybrid shark
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In 2012, scientists thought they had discovered the first ever hybrid shark. A mixture of the Australian blacktip shark and the common blacktip shark, the hybrid shark is a potential sign of climate change adaptation. The Australian Blacktip loves to swim in warm water, while the common Blacktip shark swims 1609 km south in colder waters. The hybrid apparently can swim in warm and cold water.
21. Two-headed porpoise
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Recently, fishermen discovered the first two-headed porpoise in history. It was a newborn male found in the North Sea. Fearing that the catch of this creature would be considered illegal, the Dutch fisherman threw it back. Scientists believe it was a Siamese twin, a rarity among marine mammals.
20. Faceless fish
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During the first voyage to great depths, scientists discovered a strange creature. The anomalous, 40 cm long animal was a faceless fish. She had no eyes and no mouth. Scientists believe that deep sea fish do not have eyes and use bioluminescence to "see".
19. "Stone" Pyura chilensis
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Anyone who says you can't get blood from a stone might want to reconsider. Pyura Chilensis are sea creatures that live off the coast of Chile. The outer shell looks like a stone, but when you cut it, red blood flows. And yes it is creature, which has a mouth, a stomach, and everything else it needs to survive.
18. Bigmouth eel
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Sometimes called the Pelican Eel, the Largemouth Eel is a peculiar deep-sea fish found in the wild. WITH huge mouth and with tiny fins that are barely visible, it uses bioluminescence to attract and then kill its prey.
17. Two-headed cow
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The two-headed cow was born on a farm in North Florida. With only one body, four eyes, four ears and two mouths, she should not have lived long. Such animals rarely live longer than forty days.
16. Gavial
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The Gangetic Gharial is a critically endangered slender-nosed crocodile native to India. These animals once roamed places like Myanmar and Pakistan. Their population has declined by 98% due to hunting and the disappearance of their usual habitat.
15. Coywalk
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Once considered quite rare, coywolves are more common today than ever. They are a coyote/wolf hybrid and are found primarily in western North America. Mating began when wolf populations were depleted due to deforestation and the remaining animals mixed with coyotes.
14. Fanged Frog
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Most frogs prey on small flying insects such as flies, but the Fanged Frog is not like everyone else. Discovered in Thailand, this hippopotamus frog preys not only on flies, but also on. That's right, it's a bird-eating frog. She also has fangs, which she uses to attack other male frogs.
13. Glass frog
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Speaking of anomalous frogs, we can mention many that live in the wild. For example, one of them, living in Ecuador, is completely transparent. So transparent that you can see her heart beating in her chest. Unfortunately, scientists fear that these frogs are endangered due to deforestation.
12. Luminous sea turtle
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Not far from the Solomon Islands, scientists have discovered something phenomenal: the first known luminous turtle. The turtle has specially grown neon green and red colors on its shell. While this is normal for some sharks, fish, and other marine life, having this ability is quite unusual for a turtle.
11. Two-Headed Shark
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Two-headed sharks aren't just a fantasy that Hollywood loves to sell on the big screen. Surprisingly, they have become a reality. Although they were once considered rare, there are now more and more of them. From Florida to India, fishermen have found these sharks in their nets.
10. Frog Pinocchio
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The Pinocchio Frog lives up to its name. Scientists discovered it by accident. The male has a nose spike that hangs down when he is calm and points up when he is seeking attention.
9 Cleft Lip Cow
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As a result of the radioactive fallout provoked by the Chernobyl tragedy, there have been reports of mutations among animals in households. In 1992, a reporter visited a nearby farm and saw a black cow with a deformed muzzle and a pronounced cleft lip.
8. Lynx in Chernobyl
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For a long time it was believed that the Eurasian lynx disappeared in Europe. Surprisingly, scientists discovered these animals in the strangest place - Chernobyl. It is assumed that the animals moved there because there are no people there. Their body is probably poisoned by radiation, but scientists are not sure how much.
7. Bustard
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6. Multi-colored lobster
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Lobsters come in a variety of colors, including brownish green, blue, and even albino. However, finding a multi-colored lobster half brown and half yellow is extremely rare, at 1 in 30 million. Luckily, the fisherman hit the lobster jackpot when he caught one in Maine.
5. Chernobyl swallows
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When animals live in places with high level radiation, the chances of developing an anomaly increase. In the study, scientists found several unfortunate anomalies among local swallows. Their beaks are much smaller and deformed, many birds are partially albino, and their fingers are deformed and disfigured.
4. Frog Rheobatrachus
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Technically, Rheobatrachus frogs are extinct, but that doesn't make them any less deranged. Namely, this frog had a strange way of giving birth. The female swallowed and they hatched into her stomach. One by one, the baby frogs crawled out of their mouths.
3. Orca dolphin
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A killer whale is a mixture of a dolphin and a false killer whale. Although they are said to exist in the wild, they are difficult to find or track down. However, marine biologists believe that they may exist in areas where both of these animal species live in close proximity to each other.
2 Legless Lizard
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You might think that the Legless Lizard is just a snake, but you are wrong. First, unlike snakes, legless lizards do not have forked tongues. They have eyelids and ear holes that snakes don't have. Of course they common feature- absence of legs.
1. Cow with five legs
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In China, a cow born with an extra limb was almost written off by a farmer. Nobody wanted to buy it because everyone was afraid that the animal would die early. The farmer decided to keep her, and she is doing well.
It seems that in our time everything has been studied up and down, but our planet over time presents us with more and more surprises. To date, people know about 15% of all living organisms on our planet, and 85% remain a mystery to us.
Sometimes, having discovered the corpses of unknown animals, science comes to a standstill and cannot explain what kind of creature it is and where it came from. Sometimes, of course, it happens that these "corpses" are just a falsification and are made in order to increase their own popularity, and sometimes just for fun.
Trunko
October 24, 1924 near the town of Marghita in South Africa locals witnessed an extraordinary sight. In the ocean, not far from the shore, two quite ordinary killer whales fought with a huge strange creature of a milky white color, whose body was completely covered thick hair. One of the eyewitnesses later said that the creature vaguely resembled a "polar polar bear”, although it had fins and a whale tail. The animal used this tail to attack - first, the beast fell on killer whales, jumping up from the water to a height of about six meters, and then beat them with its tail.
The white giant was defeated in the fight. In the evening of the same day, his bloodless carcass was washed ashore. It turned out to be even larger than it seemed at first: the length of the body was about 14 m in length, three m in width and 1.5 m in diameter. The tail was three meters long and shaped like a lobster's tail, and the body really turned out to be covered with thick fur 20 cm long. Instead of a nose, the creature had an elephant-like trunk, 1.5 m long and 14 cm in diameter. The creature was named Trunko.
But here's the bad luck - the eyewitnesses examined the body, measured it and told everyone about it, to whom it was possible. But the scientists did not see the unknown monster, despite the fact that the carcass lay on the shore for ten whole days, until the tide dragged it back into the ocean. Hoax? Speculation of the inhabitants? Not at all.
In 1924, information about the strange creature was published in several reputable newspapers, but the case did not attract public attention. People talked about it a little and forgot for years. But in 2007, cryptozoologist Markus Hemmler published photographs of Trunko he found in a newspaper archive, which confirmed that the case really took place. Careful analysis of the photographs showed that Trunko was nothing more than a gloster - a massive, tough "bag" of fat and skin containing collagen. Sometimes this happens with dead whales: when a whale dies, its skull and skeleton are separated from the body and sink to the seabed, and the remains are left to “drift” in the ocean. As for the battle with killer whales, they could simply eat the corpse.
Unfortunately, often the solution to the mystery is the most mundane - as, for example, it was in this case.
Pedro
In October 1932, two prospectors, Cecil Mine and Frank Carr, were looking for gold in the San Pedro Mountains. During the blasting, a cave of clearly man-made origin suddenly opened up to their eyes: the walls and ceiling were reinforced with beams hardened from time to time. The cave was small: only 1.2 m high and wide and 4.5 m long. But this is not strange: the fact is that the cave turned out to be “inhabited”.
To tell the truth, the "owner" of the cave was dead. And to be more precise, he was a mummy. Against the far wall, in a lotus position, with arms folded, sat on a small ledge a tiny man, who no doubt had once been alive. The growth of the mummy did not exceed 17 cm in a sitting position, therefore, if the mummy could be straightened, then the height of the little man would be no more than 35 cm. The mummy was preserved so well that the prospectors could examine it in great detail: a flat skull, bulging eyes with eyelids, a flat nose, thin lips and a wide mouth, brown wrinkled skin ... Even flat nails on thin elongated fingers were visible.
The miners removed the little man from the cave and took him to the nearest town, Kasper, where the mummy immediately fell into the hands of researchers. In honor of the mountains where she was found, she was given the name Pedro. The mummified remains were carefully studied over the years, and in 1950 X-rays were taken, which clearly showed a well-preserved skeleton and internal organs very human-like. It is noteworthy that the fangs of the creature were disproportionately large in relation to all other parts of the body.
An anthropologist from the American Museum of Natural History, Henry Shapiro, carefully studied both the mummy and the photographs, and concluded that the death of the creature was unlikely to be natural - some bones were broken, and gore was found on the head. Consequently, someone killed the creature, or it got into a terrible accident and received injuries incompatible with life. Apparently, at the time of his death, Pedro was about 65 years old.
True, other theories later appeared: for example, it could be the body of a child from some unknown Indian tribe. This hypothesis is supported by the second find made in the same places - the mummy of a woman ten cm in height. The researchers again assumed that it was an infant. But babies do not have such teeth - strong, healthy and with disproportionately long fangs.
Science did not give answers, since both Pedro and his “girlfriend” were bought out by an unknown businessman in the 1960s, and since then no one has ever seen mummies. Now a reward of ten thousand dollars has been announced for them. But on the other hand, the Indians inhabiting those places have their own version, in whose folklore there are many legends about the tribes of little men who inhabited America in ancient times. Legends say that these little men were harmful and vicious creatures, and when they grew old, their fellow tribesmen simply gave them a stone on the head so that they would not eat food in vain. And all these legends arose long before the prospectors found the mummy of Pedro in the mountains.
Persian princess from Balochistan
On October 19, 2000, a strange mummy was discovered in Balochistan. Oddly enough, it was sold on the local black market for a fabulous sum of $ 20 million and would probably have fallen into the hands of not scientists, but some wealthy lover of antiquities, if a certain Ali Akbar had not sent a video cassette to Pakistani scientists, where the mysterious remains were shown in all the details.
Further more. Akbar was found, he testified, and the police arrived for the mummy in the city of Haran. The mummy was discovered in the house of Vali Mohammed Riki, who explained that the mummy was "given" to him by the Iranian Sharif Shah Bahi, who accidentally discovered the corpse near Kveta after the earthquake.
The story itself would be quite ordinary - a mummy is like a mummy, in Egypt, for example, there are many of them. However, a thorough study made it possible to establish the identity of the mummified woman - it turned out that her name was Rodugune, she was the daughter of King Xerxes I of Persia from the Achaemenid dynasty. Information was obtained after deciphering the inscription on the golden crown, which was reclining on the head of the princess. In addition, initially the mummy was in a gilded coffin, and the embalming mixture was not cheap - wax and honey.
Rodugune died 2,600 years ago, and the fact that the remains were so perfectly preserved seemed to be a great success. In addition, it was previously believed that the Persians did not embalm the dead. As a result, there was an uproar in scientific circles. Yes, that's the trouble - the ancient princess ended up being fake. Professor Ahmad Dani, after a thorough study of the remains, found out that Rodugune died only in 1996 at the age of 20 - the young woman was first killed, and then made the subject of speculation. The real identity of the “princess” has not yet been established, and since she is not of scientific interest, according to the laws of human morality, she should have been buried, but due to bureaucratic intrigues, the body still rests in some Pakistani morgue.
Mammoth Lyuba
Lyuba was found by reindeer herder Yuri Khudi in May 2007 in Yamal. Under the conditions of permafrost, the mammoth carcass was perfectly preserved, and it was possible to transfer it to scientists without any damage - even the internal organs, fur and eyes, not to mention the skin and fur, remained intact. The discovery made it possible to learn a lot about mammoths, their life and structural features.
The little mammoth died 42 thousand years ago. Then she, according to DNA analysis, was only a month old. Lyuba weighed 50 kg, reached a height of 85 cm, and a length of 1.3 m. Remains of mother's milk were preserved in the stomach of the animal, and feces were preserved in the intestines.
It is noteworthy that the mammoth died, apparently as a result of a fatal accident: it got stuck in the mud and could not get out, and subsequently suffocated. Scientists made such a conclusion because the body of the animal was in perfect condition - there are no signs of disease or physical damage. In addition, Luba's DNA is also perfectly preserved, and thanks to this, it is possible to clone a mammoth someday.
Montauk monster
The corpse of a mysterious animal was found on one of the American beaches in the summer of 2008. The body was found by four young men walking along Ditch Beach near East Hampton, New York. They failed to identify the type of animal, and then, of course, the case was referred to scientists. Those, however, also could not immediately identify him. There was absolutely no hair on the body, the skin was smooth and thick, and the muzzle did not fit any animal living in these places.
But the story was quickly picked up by local newspapers. There were many versions of the origin and type of creature: they said that these were just the remains of a strange sea turtle, or even a raccoon. Or maybe a water rat, a coyote, a dog, a feral cat ... A more fantastic version in the spirit of Stephen King's novels said that this is a mutant that escaped from the Center for Animal Disease Research, over which insidious scientists experimented, did not keep track, and now they deny their involvement to history. For such a living monster, they even promised a reward of several thousand dollars. True, no one else has found anything like it - neither alive nor dead.
However, this single monster disappeared rather quickly - after the scientists got the carcass, the public had to be content with a few photographs taken by journalists. According to the same photographs, the animal was eventually officially declared an ordinary raccoon - the body could decompose and swell in the water beyond recognition, and the lack of hair can also be explained by exposure to water.
panama monster
In September 2009, in the vicinity of the Panamanian city of Cerro Azul, children playing on the shore of a lake discovered a strange hairless creature. Children in Panama, apparently, are not timid - they stoned the animal with stones, and later explained their act by the fact that the animal crawled out of the cave and crawled towards them. After killing the animal, the children took a picture of it, and the corpse was thrown into the water.
The photographs show that the muzzle of the beast was disgusting in appearance, and the limbs were disproportionately long. Moreover, in shape, these limbs resembled precisely human hands, only unusually thin.
One way or another, the body was pulled out of the lake a few days later and handed over to scientists. As a result of DNA analysis, it was found that it was just a sloth. It is not clear, however, what the sloth was doing in the cave, why there was no wool on his body, and the shape of the body was so strange. This can be partly explained by the effect of water on the body, but why then did the corpse move, as the children told about it? However, children could and exaggerate.
However, the official version is simple - it was a sloth.
Canadian monster
In May 2010, two women walked their dog along the shore of a lake in the Canadian province of Ontario. Suddenly, the dog jumped off the leash and ran off somewhere. The women followed her and saw that the dog was sniffing the body of a strange small animal the size of a large water rat. Eyewitnesses were frightened, photographed the body and hurried to leave the scene.
The picture, as usual, was published on the Internet and attracted the attention of researchers. An analysis of the image showed that the muzzle of the dead animal was somewhat unusual for a water rat or a warthog: although the tail was “rat-like”, the fangs in the animal’s mouth were long for a rat and protruded strongly forward, and there was no hair on the muzzle at all. It is a pity that when a group of researchers found themselves on the shore of that lake, the body of the animal was already gone.
Where science fails, legends come into play. In the folklore of some Native American tribes, there are references to omajinaakoos (literally, this word means "freak"). The habitat of the legendary "freak" is the swamps of Canada. According to legend, terrible misfortunes will soon fall on the one who found the body of this creature. However, given the fact that both women and their dog are still fine, it remains to be assumed that it was still a dead rat or mink, whose body was damaged by water.
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