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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. 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 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.Yvonne Simpson, a geneticist from Orkney, has researched the evidence and suggests the Stronsay beast may indeed have been an unusually large basking shark, or possibly an unknown species of shark closely related to the 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. 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. Also, the creature may have been an oarfish which has shown similar disparities.".
- Stronsay_Beast thumbnail Stronsay_beast1.jpg?width=300.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageExternalLink myths.cfm?id=384482006.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageExternalLink seabeasts.htm.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageExternalLink seaserpcarcsshuk.html.
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageID "4310258".
- Stronsay_Beast wikiPageRevisionID "606055608".
- Stronsay_Beast hasPhotoCollection Stronsay_Beast.
- 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 subject Category:Sharks.
- Stronsay_Beast type Animal100015388.
- Stronsay_Beast type AquaticVertebrate101473806.
- Stronsay_Beast type CartilaginousFish101480516.
- Stronsay_Beast type Chordate101466257.
- Stronsay_Beast type Elasmobranch101482071.
- Stronsay_Beast type Fish102512053.
- Stronsay_Beast type LivingThing100004258.
- Stronsay_Beast type Object100002684.
- Stronsay_Beast type Organism100004475.
- Stronsay_Beast type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Stronsay_Beast type Shark101482330.
- Stronsay_Beast type Sharks.
- Stronsay_Beast type Vertebrate101471682.
- Stronsay_Beast type Whole100003553.
- 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 "Bestia di Stronsay".
- Stronsay_Beast label "Bête de Stronsay".
- Stronsay_Beast label "Monster von Stronsay".
- Stronsay_Beast label "Stronsay Beast".
- Stronsay_Beast label "Стронсейский монстр".
- Stronsay_Beast label "斯特龍塞怪獸".
- 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 Q1768800.
- Stronsay_Beast sameAs Q1768800.
- Stronsay_Beast sameAs Stronsay_Beast.
- Stronsay_Beast wasDerivedFrom Stronsay_Beast?oldid=606055608.
- Stronsay_Beast depiction Stronsay_beast1.jpg.
- Stronsay_Beast isPrimaryTopicOf Stronsay_Beast.
