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- Stronsay_Beast abstract "The Stronsay Beast was a large carcass or globster that washed ashore on the island of Stronsay (at the time spelled Stronsa), in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, after a storm on 25 September 1808. The carcass measured 55 ft (16.8 m) in length, but as part of the tail was apparently missing, the animal was longer than that. The Natural History Society (Wernerian Society) of Edinburgh could not identify the carcass and decided it was a new species, probably a sea serpent. The Scottish anatomist John Barclay gave it the scientific name Halsydrus pontoppidani (Pontoppidan's sea-snake) in honor of Erik Pontoppidan, who described sea serpents in a work published half a century before. Later, the anatomist Sir Everard Home in London dismissed the measurement, declaring it must have been around 36 ft (11 m), and deemed it to be a decayed basking shark (basking sharks can take on a 'pseudo plesiosaur' appearance during decomposition). In 1849, Scottish professor John Goodsir in Edinburgh came to the same conclusion. The largest reliably recorded basking shark was 40 ft (12.2 m) in length, so at 55 ft, the Stronsay beast still constitutes something of a cryptozoological enigma.The Stronsay Beast (known locally as the Stronsay monster) was measured by three witnesses (one was a carpenter and the other two were farmers). It was 4 ft (1.2 m) wide and had a circumference of about 10 ft (3.1 m). It had three pairs of 'paws' or 'wings'. Its skin was smooth when stroked head to tail and rough when stroked tail to head. Its fins were edged with bristles and it had a 'mane' of bristles all down its back. The bristles glowed in the dark when wet. Its stomach contents were red. Full transcripts of the witness testimony can be found in the Wernerian Society Notes Vol. I (1808–10), which are held in the National Museum of Scotland and can be viewed by appointment.Bernard Heuvelmans researched the evidence in his book In the Wake of Sea Serpents and suggested the Stronsay beast may indeed have been an unusually large basking shark. The drawings of the Stronsay beast's decayed carcass are similar in shape and size to the popular image of the Loch Ness Monster, although it was criticized by the eyewitnesses as not matching their description in all regards (Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, Vol L 1808-10). The third pair of appendages could be a male shark's \"claspers\", but male sharks are generally smaller than the females of the same species. The creature's remains were cartilage, not bone, so it could not have been an oarfish nor any other animal with a bone skeleton (Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, Vol L 1808-10).".
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- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Anatomy.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Basking_shark.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Binomial_nomenclature.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Bristle.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Carpentry.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Category:1808_in_Scotland.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Category:19th_century_in_Orkney.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Category:Biota_of_Orkney.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Category:Globsters.
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- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Category:Scottish_cryptids.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Circumference.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Clasper.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Cryptozoology.
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- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink John_Barclay_(anatomist).
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink John_Goodsir.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Scottish_loch-monsters.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Loch_Ness_Monster.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink London.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Oarfish.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Orkney.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Plesiosauria.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Scottish_people.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Sea_monster.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Sea_serpent.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Stronsay.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Wernerian_Natural_History_Society.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink Zuiyo-maru_carcass.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLink File:Stronsay_beast1.jpg.
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- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageWikiLinkText "Stronsay Beast".
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- Stronsay_Beast subject Category:1808_in_Scotland.
- Stronsay_Beast subject Category:19th_century_in_Orkney.
- Stronsay_Beast subject Category:Biota_of_Orkney.
- Stronsay_Beast subject Category:Globsters.
- Stronsay_Beast subject Category:Monsters.
- Stronsay_Beast subject Category:Scottish_cryptids.
- Stronsay_Beast hypernym Carcass.
- Stronsay_Beast type Archipelago.
- Stronsay_Beast type Area.
- Stronsay_Beast type Food.
- Stronsay_Beast type Archipelago.
- Stronsay_Beast type Area.
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- Stronsay_Beast comment "The Stronsay Beast was a large carcass or globster that washed ashore on the island of Stronsay (at the time spelled Stronsa), in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, after a storm on 25 September 1808. The carcass measured 55 ft (16.8 m) in length, but as part of the tail was apparently missing, the animal was longer than that. The Natural History Society (Wernerian Society) of Edinburgh could not identify the carcass and decided it was a new species, probably a sea serpent.".
- Stronsay_Beast label "Stronsay Beast".
- Stronsay_Beast sameAs Q1768800.
- Stronsay_Beast sameAs Monster_von_Stronsay.
- Stronsay_Beast sameAs Bête_de_Stronsay.
- Stronsay_Beast sameAs Monster_Stronsay.
- Stronsay_Beast sameAs Bestia_di_Stronsay.
- Stronsay_Beast sameAs m.0bwds6.
- Stronsay_Beast sameAs Стронсейский_монстр.
- Stronsay_Beast sameAs Q1768800.
- Stronsay_Beast sameAs 斯特龍塞怪獸.
- Stronsay_Beast wasDerivedFrom Stronsay_Beast?oldid=702909246.
- Stronsay_Beast depiction Stronsay_beast1.jpg.
- Stronsay_Beast isPrimaryTopicOf Stronsay_Beast.