Is a Cadborosaurus corpse at the Smithsonian?

Did the real-life remains of a mythical sea serpent really make it's way to the Smithsonian?

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[chesneymigl]

Sounds like a pinniped carcass. Seals and sea lions can have crazy looking teeth.

[youremakingprogress]

If it had hair on it and big scary teeth, maybe it was a marine mammal, like an especially large sea lion.

[emilypresleysee]

Legit read "cardborosaurus" thinking of was a cardboard cutout of a dinosaur skeleton or something.

[emmaramseyer]

There’s a Nancy Drew game that features the Cadborosaurus! Danger on Deception Island

[ashleighmarine]

My mind translated cadborosaurus as carburysaurus and all I can picture now is a massive chocolate sea monster roaming the waters of the Pacific Northwest

[brettbosley]

It's smoking a blunt with the Minnesota Ice Man.

[lurchorum]

The Smithsonian not having samples they were supposed to? Go figure. Just like Giant skeletons.

[WilliamCooper-lf]

Marco Polo recorded in his journal, that the king of China had dragons (dinosaurs) and he described a terrifying variety that perfectly fit that of a T-Rex

[stevecausey]

Ahh Dr. Z...you look great...and a fun story!

[Behext]

I bet it ended up at Longview, WA's Marsh's Museum along with the corpse of famous half-man, half-gator, Jake the Alligator Man.

[QueenN]

Can you imagine?
“Yes, hello, someone needs to sign off on this sea serpent.”

[identity]

The Smithsonian has "lost" multiple specimens....allegedly

[evelynlamoy]

my bets on another decaying basking shark

[thebig]

This is yet another great video from an amazing series. Keep up all the great work. Thanks.

[betsypower]

The Smithsonian holds back a lot of artifacts
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[frbrbrgrblgrr]

You put some real effort into this it seems. Im proud of ya, good work

[mathieuleader]

Sometimes the giant whale in the childrens book Pinnochio is drawn to look more like an oarfish.

[brain_apostrophe_t]

Fish with "hair" are typically fish that was rotted underwater to the point that their muscular fibers are spread out. It would mean the thing had been rotting for several months. Transporting that thing out of the water would turn it to mush very very quickly

[foxcub]

I watched a video about that and I heard that there were a couple of people who went fishing and caught a baby version they were thinking about keeping it but it was crying so much the let it go

[VosperCDN]

oh, I know where it is .. in a vaguely marked box in some endless warehouse full of other cryptically stencilled boxes ... ;D