A series of pictures provided by Spanish Civil Protection on Aug. 16 shows the creature found by residents in the Spanish coastal village of Villaricos. The carcass, measuring four to five meters in length, was smelly and in an advanced state of decomposition.
What could it be? Remains of some kind of a shrk? Oarfish? Sea Monster? Loch Ness? Hmmm!
According to experts, it sure looks like the remains of a giant oarfish or thresher shark.
This is the latest in a string of "sea serpent" stories which has sparked an online buzz in the past few days, thanks to the gnarly-looking pictures that surfaced in the Spanish press last week.
"It's hard to tell," David Shiffman, a University of Miami shark researcher who blogs about marine biology on Southern Fried Science, told NBC News in a Twitter exchange, "but the official guess that it could be a thresher shark seems plausible."
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