Mystery Remains Found On Florida Beach
by Anthony Cormier
The skeleton of a Gulf of Mexico animal, found by siblings Reagan, Rylee and Kyle Robinson of McKinney, Texas has scientists baffled.
A set of bones found on a Longboat Key, Florida beach has stirred a scientific mystery, as scientists and researchers struggle to identify the strange remains.
A family on vacation found half a torso — with a large head and sharp, daggerlike fins last week on the beach.
Mysterious animal skeleton found
Scientists at Mote Marine Laboratory could not come up with a definitive answer. Nor could a taxidermist who prepped the bones so one of the children could hang it in his room.
Professors at the University of South Florida have opined about it — a Goliath Grouper, a red drum — to no avail.
This afternoon, Tiffany Robinson and her children are headed to Bradenton to meet with a paleontology expert for answers.
“It looks like a pterodactyl,” she says. “Of course it’s not. But you never know.”
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alf on Tuesday, July 08, 2008dead fish!!!!!!!!!you freaks!
Marie on Friday, July 25, 2008I came accross an interesting site to cross-reference with this story. The remains in question may be of a cadborosaurus relative, so names for the region where such bones were first discovered in the earlier part of the century as Cadboro Bay British Columbia.
