#bairds-beaked-whale

#bairds-beaked-whale

In May 1925, a strange decaying corpse washed ashore on Moore's Beach, now known as Natural Bridges State Beach, in Santa Cruz. Locals who swarmed out to investigate the specimen described elephantine legs, a fish-like tail and a long neck stretched across the sand. It was quickly dubbed a sea monster. Photographs published at the time reveal that much of the monster's carcass had collapsed, leaving only the head mostly intact.