Case file · Cryptid
Moore's Beach 'sea monster' carcass
In 1925 a strange carcass with a long neck and a duck-like beak washed up at Moore's Beach near Santa Cruz, drawing crowds and press claims of a prehistoric reptile.
1925 CE · 36.95, -122.06 · status: explained
The account
Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences identified it as a rare beaked whale, Baird's beaked whale, with the body partly decomposed.