Giant Squid Washes Ashore Cantabria Beach in Spain [VIDEO]/Mysterious 'Sea Monster' Carcass Washes Ashore on New Zealand Beach (Video)

A giant squid with oversized protruding eyes washed ashore on a beach in the northern Spanish community of Cantabria.
The 30 feet deep-sea monster weighing 400 pounds astonished beachgoers Tuesday, who stumbled upon the near intact remains of the monster that looked more like a mythical gargantuan creature.
Washed ashore the La Arena beach, the giant squid is currently held at the Maritime Museum of Cantabria, where experts will work toward preserving this specimen, according to El Diario Montanes. The museum currently holds two similar but smaller specimens, museum director Gerardo Garcia Castrillo told Montanes.
The deep sea denizen will be cleaned and frozen. The fate of this dead creature remains vague at the moment as museum scientists and the government will decide on the ownership and whether it will go on display at the museum or will be dissected in the name of  science, GrindTV reports.
The first footage of this elusive creature in its natural habitat was captured by a zoologist Tsunemi Kubodera, from Japan's National Science Museum, Tokyo. The video captured the sea monster off the Ogasawara Islands at a depth of 2,066 feet.
"It was shining and so beautiful," team leader Tsunemi Kubodera, a zoologist at Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science, told AFP at the time. "I was so thrilled when I saw it first hand, but I was confident we would because we rigorously researched the areas we might find it, based on past data."
Apart from their enormous size, these creatures have the largest eyes that are similar in size to a beachball. Due to their big eyes, they can peer through deep sea regions where light is non-existent. They mostly reside in cool waters, as the squids' blood does not carry sufficient oxygen in high temperatures. They are also known to have an extensive nervous system and a complex brain, reports NBC News.
In recent years, occasionally giant squids corpses have been discovered washed ashore, and scientists are spending great resources in studying these elusive creatures as they are the largest invertebrates on earth . However, these giant squids continue to remain a great mystery.
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http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/9969/20131005/elusive-giant-squid-washes-ashore-cantabria-beach-spain-video.htm

Mysterious 'Sea Monster' Carcass Washes Ashore on New Zealand Beach (Video)

Move over, Jaws. There's a new monster from the deep. A mysterious "sea monster" carcass washed ashore in New Zealand last week, puzzling the public and fueling speculation about the existence of dinosaurs and monsters, according to Fox News.

The corpse was actually discovered by a group on four-wheel vehicles that was speeding along the beach in Bay of Plenty. With its pointed teeth and distorted body, the carcass baffled the beach goers. Stretching over 30 feet long, the creature looked like something out of a monster movie rather than something you'd find while combing the beach.
In an attempt to try and identify the creature, the finders actually released a video on YouTube of the carcass. They pleaded with the public to tell them exactly what species the monster actually was. People speculated that it could be anything from a giant saltwater crocodile to a moray eel.
Yet this "sea monster" is far from being a prehistoric terror. Instead, a marine biologist was able to identify the carcass as a mostly-decayed orca whale. Its distinct flipper, in particular, is what gave it away.
Killer whales travel across the world's oceans, located across vast expanses--all the way from polar waters to the Equator. With sharp, cone-like teeth, these predators feast on marine mammals such as seals, sea lions and even whales. It's not surprising that with these attributes, the beach goers thought the orca was actually a sea monster.
This isn't the first time that a carcass has captured the imaginations of the public, though. Mostly-decayed corpses that have washed ashore look unlike any living creature in our oceans. Because of this, many speculate about the existence of sea monsters or even dinosaurs. For example, in 1896 a corpse was washed ashore on a beach in Florida. The six-foot-high blob was eventually found out to be a giant octopus, but not before imaginations ran wild.
In this case, it seems like the mystery is solved. No doubt there will be other mystery corpses in the future, though. Whether they're sea monsters or not, the public is likely to be fascinated by the strange carcasses.
Want to see the monster for yourself? Check out the video below, originally appearing here.
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http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/6719/20130508/mysterious-sea-monster-carcass-washes-ashore-new-zealand-beach.htm