Beak or deteriorated jaw?
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The badly damaged carcass of a creature that appears to
have
a toothed beak has washed up at Montauk, across from the
US
Government's Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
There has been speculation that the animal is a decomposed
sea turtle, but their beaks do not have teeth, and the
turtle's shell is attached along the spine, and this
creature shows no damage to the spine.
There are said to be photographs suggesting that the animal
is a decomposed pit bull, and that the distortions in the
jaw are the result of water action, and only appear to be a
beak.
There has been speculation, also, that it's a raccoon, and
famed cryptozoologist Loren Coleman believes that this may
be the case. Coleman says, "The "Montauk Monster" appears
to
be a normal decomposing carcass, denuded by the elements,
the ocean, and storms, of raccoon, or perhaps a dog."
The animal also has strangely structured front paws, that
seem to be designed, but poorly, for swimming, but once
again, they could easily be deteriorated due to water action.
The animal may have been a pet, or a captive of some sort,
because
there was a blue cloth band around one of the paws, which
the boys who found it are now wearing around their necks.
The carcass itself has deteriorated and no particular effort
appears to have been made to gather the remains as
evidence.
In August of 2004, Unknowncountry.com
covered
an
unknown animal that was appearing in Texas which local media
called the Elmendorf Beast. The first carcass was found in
Elmendorf Texas in August of 2004. We had the remains
studied by a biologist, John Gramieri, who stated that the
skull was not a coyote or a dog, but possibly a mix known as
a coydog that either had a disease or was the result of
breeding, either intentional or in the wild.
Numerous other carcasses turned up in east Texas
over the next few years, and the hairlessness of the animals
suggested disease process as well, possibly a severe illness
called sarcoptic mange.
However, there was some speculation that genetic
manipulation could be involved, and there is indeed an
extensive facility at the Texas A&M University Department of
Animal Science, but our calls to the department resulted in
comment that they were not working on any projects involving
mange, and not doing any genetic work that could result in
animals such as those we were finding.
Again, the Plum Island facility has denied carrying out any
research that could have resulted in the deformities and
distortions in a carcass. Its mission includes diagnosing
and detecting foreign animal disease agents that are
accidentally or "deliberately" introduced into the United
States. It has also been pointed out by some
observers that Lyme Disease was first seen in Lyme,
Connecticut, immediately across the sound from Plum Island,
at a time when such disease vectors were allegedly under
study on the island.
The Elmendorf animals were victims of profound disease, and
it seems also that this animal may have had some illness. If
so, it could have escaped from Plum Island, where animal
experiments using various disease vectors are carried out.
The presence of an identifying tag on the animal suggests
that it may have been in captivity.
For a look at a raccoon skull with missing teeth,
click
here.
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