tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post5177603569385937080..comments2024-03-22T21:58:18.933+00:00Comments on ShukerNature: THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE BOTTLED SEA SERPENT – OR, WHEN IS A GIANT EEL LARVA NOT A GIANT EEL LARVA?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15628598508836601012noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-87821960635714404952022-10-11T20:15:07.637+01:002022-10-11T20:15:07.637+01:00Thanks for your comment. However, the source that ...Thanks for your comment. However, the source that you reference, from 2011, is outdated - published three years before this article of mine that includes the additional info re the Colocongridae-related reclassification. Moreover, the giant Dana specimen was certainly preserved, as verified by the photo of it included by me in my above article, and also by the indisputable fact that it remains in the collections of Copenhagen University's Zoological Museum, which was confirmed to me by one of the museum's researchers, Danish zoologist Lars Thomas, who kindly procured the photo for me to use.Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-64017187339631152292022-10-11T17:19:45.923+01:002022-10-11T17:19:45.923+01:00I've come across an article from a few years p...I've come across an article from a few years prior that tells a rather different chain of events, suggesting that this Leptocephalus should not be dismissed yet and that it might not even have been preserved: http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/07/titanoconger-real-super-eel-and-real.htmlChris Forbesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-68659702383733642182015-02-11T04:03:08.862+00:002015-02-11T04:03:08.862+00:00Did not the Dana specimen have 450 myomeres? Did not the Dana specimen have 450 myomeres? sunfichehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13263754895345781753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-40989990589381442712015-01-03T06:19:28.412+00:002015-01-03T06:19:28.412+00:00Great essay, as always. I can practically smell th...Great essay, as always. I can practically smell the formalin from my college days....Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06289052027534780177noreply@blogger.com