Strange Sea Creature Skeleton
Posted by Siren, sirengarg@yahoo.com, on Thu, Aug 10 2006, 8:42am
Last year, I took my daughter to Flagler Beach (in Florida). She found this off skeleton. The backbone was well developed, but the "torso-area" was thin and brittle. I cleaned the skeleton and the entire "torso" disinigrated, which lead me to believe, it was cartilidge. I still have all the backbone pieces. But we still can't figure out what it is. I think it might be a stingray, but the backbone is bone, not cartilidge. Any ideas? I have more pictures per request.

Comment by: Slightly More on Jul 22, 2008
I wish there were something to indicate scale...

Fishyfish has got it right. And yeah, I'd vouch for a shark. I also wish there were more angle shots of the 'headpiece,' then we could tell species. As a shot in the dark I would have said hammer or bonnet. Other sharks' heads are more, well, bubbly shaped, and the flatness would definitely make sense.

Comment by: Undefined Logic on Jul 06, 2008
Do you really have bones that look like that? It has the classifications and shape of a sea serpent. It's an invertebrae. These are really beautiful paintings.

Comment by: Voz on Feb 16, 2008
I'm not sure what it is, but the large bulbous end is not a skull. It looks more like the sacral vertebrae, the back part of the pelvis.

Comment by: Boo-men on Nov 13, 2007
I smell plaster.

Comment by: BrackenxElffly on Oct 17, 2007
It kinda looks like someone crumpled up paper and then taped it back together to make it look like that shape

Comment by: tehkonrad on Jun 05, 2007
yeah i'm goona say....something -D

Comment by: godisaprocrastinator on May 14, 2007
are the sea shells around it there to make us believe that it came from the sea?

Comment by: Crypticlover on May 06, 2007
No comment.

Comment by: ill-tell-what-i-think on Apr 27, 2007
kinda hard to tell what it is without a SKULL, you cant tell much with a backbone!!!

Comment by: MoonShadow on Mar 06, 2007
this looks like the remails of a large eel, and I could say it looks like a Chineese water dragon, its very cool,

Comment by: Death Phoenix on Dec 20, 2006
Small Whale?.....New species of Fish?
Spotted Eagle Ray Aetobatus Narinari?
Toadfish Sub-Family Thassophryninae?
How big was it when your daughter first found it??

Comment by: Cryptophsyco on Dec 20, 2006
ok, i can see better now!

Comment by: Crypto.Crazy on Nov 09, 2006
why does that thing at the top remind me of a chicken? i've been watching too much t.v. cool pic.

Comment by: Thylacine1499 on Nov 08, 2006
dont know

Comment by: Dizon__100 on Oct 03, 2006
Okay now I say it's mothman

Comment by: cryptomental on Sep 21, 2006
plesiosaur?

Comment by: fishyfish on Sep 08, 2006
these are definitely remains of a shark, the large portion representing the chondrocranium inside of which you find the brain. the cylindrical portion leading away from the cranium are quite obviously the cartilaginous centra or vertabrae. these and rays within the fins are all you would expect to find of a shark "skeleton." the fin rays would be free of the axial skeleton and that is why you didn't find them.

Comment by: caddyboy768 on Aug 25, 2006
cool!

Comment by: Ms. Bigfoot to you on Aug 21, 2006
ew. once my sister and I tries to start a beach.sea.ocean museum in the basement. we had kelp, sea weed, left over beach net, sea wood, sea rope, sea glass, shells stuff and other washed up stuff. then we tricked the neighborhood kids to pay money to see the 'sea surpent' which if i remember corectly was bunches of sea weed and rope??

Comment by: Hoax-Catcher on Aug 20, 2006
looks like leftovers from a carnivore

Comment by: gneasach_amasoin on Aug 19, 2006
cryptodave - Look up pythons in Florida before you say that's rare because it's not. We've recently been having problems with very large pythons due to people deciding they don't want them or the responsibility, so they let them go.

Comment by: *nessie*lover*5 on Aug 17, 2006
ok now i believe it is animal... but what i dont know...i still say DNA test

Comment by: bfthunter on Aug 14, 2006
Its either hummingbird or bigfoot. Pretty sure, anyway.

Comment by: Finli_OTego on Aug 14, 2006
Well it's a common misconception that cartilage is soft, it isn't. Also, snake skeletons typically have prominent ribs from the neck on down.

Comment by: cryptodave on Aug 13, 2006
Its not a shark or a stingray, sharks and stingrays are made out of cartilidge, that means not bones..., id say python..., but in florida thats kinda rear.

Comment by: Siren on Aug 11, 2006
Those are normal sized bricks, and yes, it was small. I forget the dimensions at the time though. Could it be a baby bonnet head shark?

Comment by: benshorse1 on Aug 11, 2006
looks small if those are normal sized bricks

Comment by: Cryptokreep on Aug 11, 2006
yep i agree with sordes probably dogfish

Comment by: Sordes on Aug 11, 2006
This are very probably relics of a cartilaginous fish, maybe a small shark.