tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post3648213686661310624..comments2024-03-22T21:58:18.933+00:00Comments on ShukerNature: SON OF TRUNKO!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15628598508836601012noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-11511982002039163552012-02-07T07:44:43.563+00:002012-02-07T07:44:43.563+00:00I forgot to add something; Makara is depicted as h...I forgot to add something; Makara is depicted as half elephant half fish.themanfromtatooinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10066656016508207382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-81916785798354383822012-02-06T11:12:51.068+00:002012-02-06T11:12:51.068+00:00I'm not a biologist, but i suppose that Makara...I'm not a biologist, but i suppose that Makara of the Hindu mythology is based on an unknown marine species.themanfromtatooinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10066656016508207382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-45312234927019170442011-03-22T19:37:11.543+00:002011-03-22T19:37:11.543+00:00Too bad it was a fake.
You know, it's always ...Too bad it was a fake.<br /><br />You know, it's always possible that this second carcass could be old Trunko himself, floated halfway around the world! If so, maybe he isn't lost after all! Of course, it WAS a fake, but poor old Trunko deserves some respect. After all, he DID confuse a lot of people in that "whale fight" and was one of the most controversial globsters ever. Someday, I hope that he will be put on display at the museum. May Trunko live on in memory, and thanks for revealing the truth Prof. Shuker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-61559784430826617562010-10-23T06:20:41.448+01:002010-10-23T06:20:41.448+01:00Dear Karl Shuker, concerning the Trunko I have one...Dear Karl Shuker, concerning the Trunko I have one interesting piece of information you may or may not already know of.<br /><br />On page 354 of the book Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies, I have seen an ancient drawing relating to Classic of the Mountains and Seas-a Chinese anthology of stories collected in the 1st century BCE. On the picture there is a boat and several fantastic sea creatures. One of these looks like an enormous fish with the head of an elephant.<br />My initial thoughts on this were that this just might be evidence of the existence of Trunko's species. I have since learned from your Extraordinary Animals Revisited that Trunko was likely just a decomposing carcass. Still, the ancient Chinese could have come across such a carcass (or carcasses) and interpreted them as the remains of elephant headed fish. Its an intriguing thought.<br /><br />The ancient picture also shows what just might be stylised pictures of mosasaurs, pliosaurs and/or thallatosuchians, though they may of course just be stylised pictures of ordinary crocodilians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-81289372687523848992010-09-27T22:28:16.768+01:002010-09-27T22:28:16.768+01:00Thank you Jum for your very kind words - receiving...Thank you Jum for your very kind words - receiving such kind praise makes all the efforts worthwhile in investigating and documenting cases such as these, whose complexities and sheer outlandishness pose serious problems when seeking the truth behind the decades-old reports and confusion.Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-74682600857269255802010-09-20T04:36:08.336+01:002010-09-20T04:36:08.336+01:00Remarkable. This is a textbook example of how cryp...Remarkable. This is a textbook example of how cryptid research should be done. I am by no means a crypto snob, but as one who hopes that one day we will finally discover some of our most elusive cryptids (or will they prove "illusive" ?), I've been embarrassed before by how quick some of our ranks are to accept uncritically the most dubious claims about unknown creatures; e.g., the hoopla surrounding the pic of what turned out to be an ape costume and some pig guts in a freezer 2 years ago. <br /><br />I think this incident shows us that often the reports and memoranda made by disinterested professionals and skilled amateurs from an after-the-fact-examination can be of more value to history than generalized and second-hand accounts of alleged eye-witnesses to an event. In this case we can now be confident that witnesses to the 1925 event did NOT see a monster "fighting" two orcas; but rather observed killer whales playing with the dead carcass of what was likely a decomposing Minke Whale. <br /><br />You are to be commended, Mr. Shuker and Herr Hemmler, for a job well done. A successful search for the truth is always a victory, regardless of whether the results support our hopes. Now we can dispense with Trunko as a case of mis-identification and wishful thinking, and concentrate on more likely cryptids. Bravo, gentlemen.Jumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010872199201417401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-66050953386081919752010-09-18T11:32:12.031+01:002010-09-18T11:32:12.031+01:00Yes, I had posted about the Glacier Island Minke W...Yes, I had posted about the Glacier Island Minke Whale identification a while back based on a tip-off from Chad Arment, and Markus just posted the information at Frontiers-of-Zoology in reply to my original posting only yesterday morning.<br />Markus is very keen on such matters and I know of no other researcher that investigates all these old alleged Sea Monster corpses so dilligently.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com