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...across the sea. The hyperoodon or bottle-nosed whale, explained the Curator-in-Chief of Living & Extinct Fishes in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, has an enormous head and a ridiculously short neck. Rapidly Curator Gregory ran through the list of creatures living & extinct which the monster resembled. It had the neck of a sea lion, the head of a sea cow, the body of a long dugong. But the parts did not fit. It could not, he concluded, be what it seemed...
...French copper sous grew the eyes of Professor Corbiere, distinguished naturalist, when he sighted the monster. Never in his life had he seen such a thing as this. The world was waiting for him to speak and for France he must not fail. "It is," he proclaimed, "a cetacean...
Words, however, could not conjure away the rotting carcass on the beach at Querqueville. Perhaps, someone suggested, it was the Loch Ness monster (TIME, Jan. 15) sighted last December in Inverness Harbor heading out to sea. But on that subject Professor Corbiere was firm. "Non!" he cried. "Nae!" echoed a thousand voices from Scotland, where six workmen promptly reported having seen the monster thrashing through Loch Ness "at a terrific rate...
...last two professors from Paris' Natural History Museum arrived at Querqueville to settle the matter. Gravely they poked & peered. When they departed, carrying the creature's head and tail for comparison with museum specimens, their minds were made up. The monster was definitely: 1) not a whale...
...moment I can only commit myself on one point-it is a selachian [shark and ray family]. ... As for the individual characteristics of the monster, it is possible we are in the presence of an unknown species. C'est epatant...