Information AboutCadborosaurus |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT CADBOROSAURUS WILLSI | |
| sea cryptids | |
| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
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This large Poikilothermic species resembles a serpent with vertical coils or humps in tandem behind the horse-like head and long neck, a pair of small elevational front flippers, and a pair of large webbed hind flippers fused to form a large fan-like tail region that provides powerful forward-swimming propulsion. Through a process of locomotory body transformation, the long slender body can be doubled up into rigid vertical humps that effectively reduce friction of the snakelike body surface with the water and enable the animal to attain recorded swimming speeds of >40 k.p.h. at the surface. Zoological reality of the species has been suggested by the original specimen-based description in a refereed scientific journal in which the type juvenile specimen is represented by 3 different close-up quality photographs (in the B. C. Provincial Archives in Victoria), in which at least three new-born relatively tiny precocial "baby" specimens have been independently held by at least three pairs of human captors during the past 40 years, and by more than 100 documented sightings, photographs, sonar images, and sketches of live animals made independently at predicted times and places, subsequent to the original description in 1995 and continuing to the present. SOURCES
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