The mysterious monster found near the island Šaklina (Russia)

[casper]

It is not known what kind of creature is a word, it is speculated that it could be some unknown northern relative of the dolphin, which has developed the fur in order to survive in the cold waters of the northern sea.
Once the similar monster was found a few years ago.
Link:
http://englishrussia.com/2015/07/02/remains-of-unidentified-monster-have-been-found-in-russia-again/

 

[MusicMan]

Certainly an unusual critter. Reminds me more of a seal, than a dolphin, and that would explain the fur.
Still there are plenty of undiscovered critters out there in the ocean depths, and who knows, it might have been a window-faller..

By the way Casper, congratulations on passing 1000 postings, you really are networking!

 

[loreta]

Certainly an unusual critter. Reminds me more of a seal, than a dolphin, and that would explain the fur.
Still there are plenty of undiscovered critters out there in the ocean depths, and who knows, it might have been a window-faller..

By the way Casper, congratulations on passing 1000 postings, you really are networking!

Very strange monster, imagine to meet him while swimming! Creepy. Monsters that make surface, as telling us that they exist, they are there, telling us: we are part, also, of nature, we are here and we are coming.

Thanks Casper!

 

[Chu]

I suspect we're going to be seeing more of these. In the last few months, a lot of deep-see creatures have gone up to the surface.

 

[Cosmos]

Reminds me of this strange creature that was found a couple of days ago in russia as well:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=432_1435365389
http://29.ru/text/newsline/48498900979712.html

One year before they found (according to the report in russian) another strange fish like creature with teeth like humans have.

What is interesting in this case, is that both of those creatures were dicouvered on, or near that russian river called "r. Severnaya Dvina": https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=cr&ei=X8gYUr_5IomYtQaN-YH4DA#q=Bereznik-Osinovo

According to my russian friend, the river is normaly between 2 - 8 meters deep and in summer only approximatly (on average) 4 meters. The deepest point of the whole river is about 24 meters.

So if we assume those creatures swum there from the White Sea which is at least about 320 kilometers swimming distance away from the place (White Sea is an inlet of the Barents Sea with an everage depth of 60 meters and a max. depth of 340 meters). Further away is the Barent Sea which is part of the Arctic Ocean and there it would be about 800 kilometers swimming distance from the place.

So quite a distance especially if you consider that 320 kilometers of the river, the fish has to swim against the water flow. So maybe they are not coming from the sea in this case and are either unknown species of that river itself (which strangly nobody ever so before, even though the river is not that deap). It is russia though and not very densely populated area... Or they are something new either "window fallers" or mutations caused by comets maybe?

The Chelyabinsk meteor was about 1300 kilometers (liniear distance away):

https://www.google.de/maps/dir/Tscheljabinsk,+Chelyabinskaya+Oblast,+Russland/Osinovo,+Arkhangelskaya+oblast',+Russland,+164598/@61.1712023,5.468676,3z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x43c592cb104a3a8d:0xef224a2a6d1711bf!2m2!1d61.4368431!2d55.1644419!1m5!1m1!1s0x441b3de52e1095c1:0xb5c68d67bf91a4aa!2m2!1d42.8037!2d62.8645


The flight path of the meteor was not over the area.

 

[Mal7]

I found one comment suggesting it could be a partial mastodon carcase, missing the legs, that has been washed out of the permafrost somewhere. This could account for the fur anyway. Someone having a careful examination should be able to see whether it is a dolphin, or a mastodon, or neither. But it is hard to tell just from the photos.

 

[Jtucker]

I found one comment suggesting it could be a partial mastodon carcase, missing the legs, that has been washed out of the permafrost somewhere. This could account for the fur anyway. Someone having a careful examination should be able to see whether it is a dolphin, or a mastodon, or neither. But it is hard to tell just from the photos.

Hi Mal7, it does seem plausible that when Siberian permafrost thaws that some of the carcasses could wash out. But looking at this image of a mammoth skeleton:

_http://www.amnh.org/our-research/science-news/2008/its-out-of-america

The skull is much more massive than the picture of the beast washed up. And there is nothing in the Mammoth tusk profile that matches the beak on this thing. Also the serpentine shape of it doesn't look to me like it ever had legs. It appears to be a water borne animal.

The fur is bizarre. What's also unusual is the size. With the humans standing near it, that is no dolphin I've ever seen that size. 12 feet? I've swam with bottle nose's in Mexico and they're not even seven feet. Here's an article about a recently discovered fossilized river dolphin in Peru.

_http://prehistoricflorida.org/new-species-of-extinct-dolphin-sheds-light-on-river-dolphin-history/

It's quite small and the "beak" doesn't look similar to the Russian specimen. If this is the second one that's washed up, according to the article, I don't think it's a fossil, but more likely a living specimen?