Unusual creatures washed ashore. Unknown monsters that washed ashore
BAKU / News-Azerbaijan. Hard times seem long and, unfortunately, almost never stop. Over the past fifty centuries, humanity has experienced fourteen and a half thousand wars, large and small, and only three hundred years in total have been absolutely peaceful. Every time new reasons, reasons and methods of waging war appear, and with each century people find a new and more destructive way. We live in an era of terrorist attacks, when no one is ever sure of their own safety.
Since the beginning of 2017, the world has experienced more than three dozen terrorist attacks, each of which claimed lives civilians and military personnel, which could include you, your family and your friends.
2017 didn't start in the best possible way- on the night of January 1st in Istanbul there was an attack on night club Reina. The Hurriyet newspaper published part of the interrogation of the terrorist, who turned out to be a native of Uzbekistan, Abdulgadir Masharipov:
"I took a taxi along the (Bosphorus) coast around 10 p.m. and the Reina club seemed like a good target, there was no tight security there. I passed this information on to the man who gave me the order and he ordered me to attack Reina. Then I went home, took a weapon and attacked the club."
The IS terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed 39 people.
In mid-February, three large explosions occurred at once. On February 15-16, 56 people were killed and more than 80 injured in the Sadr City and Bayaa areas of Baghdad (populated predominantly by Shiites). civilians as a result of car bomb explosions. On February 16, in Sehwan Sharif in Pakistan, an explosion occurred on the territory of the mausoleum of the Sufi poet and philosopher Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, killing 80 people. The IS terrorist group was responsible for all three attacks.
In London on March 22, a criminal drove a car across Westminster Bridge, drove onto the sidewalk, knocking people down. A man in a car hit a police officer. knife wound and was shot by another police officer. Five people were killed and 50 people from 10 countries were injured. The next terrorist attack in Great Britain took place in Manchester. On May 22, suicide bomber Salman Abedi carried out a suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena complex, where singer Ariana Grande was holding a concert. 22 people died, including 12 children. 120 people were injured. After this event, security measures were strengthened, but this did not help: on June 3, a series of attacks occurred in London. On London Bridge, a van hit pedestrians, then three men armed with knives got out and began attacking people. 8 people were killed, 48 were injured.
On Thursday, August 17, a series of terrorist attacks occurred in Spain. In Barcelona, a car drove into a crowd in the city center, killing 16 people and injuring 130. The situation repeated itself a few hours later in Cambrils, 120 kilometers from Barcelona. One person died, 6 were injured. There were also two explosions in Alcanar, which killed one person and injured more than a dozen people.
And all this - without mentioning the countless other terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, where the number of deaths is not in the tens, but in the hundreds.
April 3 on the stretch between stations " Sennaya Square" And " Institute of Technology-2" an explosion occurred in St. Petersburg, killing 16 people. The second bomb, at the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station, was prevented because it was discovered in time.
I learned about all the terrorist attacks mentioned above from the news, but I remember the third of April very well. That day I didn’t take the metro, although I should have been there at that exact time. I remember how fear gripped the entire city - from that day on, people on the subway looked at each other warily. However, despite the fear, people helped each other - hundreds and thousands of people voluntarily took everyone stuck in the center to their homes, allowed strangers into their homes and gave them tea. Many coffee shops did not take money from customers, and taxis and public transport worked for free. People helped each other, and it was for this reason that the city recovered so quickly - three days later only a pile of flowers near the Tekhnologichesky Institute metro station reminded that something so terrible had taken place. I would like that this whole story of terrorist attacks, which looks like a bad dream, ended exactly like this - with mutual assistance and mutual assistance. Because if not we will help each other in this difficult time, then who will help?
Nazakat SHIKHALIEVA
In Russia, 2017 was overshadowed by a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro. Immediately after this, the FSB of the Russian Federation stated that the agency has reliable information about carrying out new terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation. The service also had bad news for its foreign partners: in addition to Russia, the leadership of the Islamic State planned to carry out a series of high-profile terrorist attacks in different regions peace. And if in Russia they regularly reported on thwarted attacks, all over the world terrorists regularly reminded themselves of themselves.
The year began with a plane crash in Kyrgyzstan, where on January 16, a Boeing 747-412 transport aircraft belonging to Avia Cargo Turkish, flying from Hong Kong to Istanbul, overshot the runway while landing for refueling at Manas airport and fell on residential buildings. 34 people on the ground and four crew members were killed. The Kyrgyz media covered the story of a third-grader boy who went to school in a neighboring village early in the morning, and when he returned, he discovered that he was left alone in the whole world - his entire family had died: from his mother and father to younger brothers and sisters.
It’s unsafe everywhere – this is the axiom they tell us Act of terrorism committed in Lately. In the spring and early summer, the news became especially generous with explosions, shootings, and raids committed by terrorists.
Let us recall the incident in London on March 22, when an attacker in a car first hit pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and then, armed with a knife, attacked a group of police officers near the Houses of Parliament. Four people were killed and dozens were injured. The criminal was shot dead by the police.
Scotland Yard did not find any connection between the attacker and terrorist groups banned in Russia. Islamic State"* and Al-Qaeda**. According to the police, the attacker was “interested in jihad,” but acted alone. His action was copied from other similar ones organized by “senior comrades” from the Islamic State. It is noteworthy that the young man committed his crime on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22, 2016, when ISIS carried out explosions at the airport and the metro. Then 32 people died.
On April 3 of this year, a terrorist attack occurred in the St. Petersburg metro. The explosion was carried out by suicide bomber Akbarzhon Jalilov, an Uzbek by nationality, a Russian citizen since 2011. 103 people were injured in the terrorist attack, 16 of them died. Whether this terrorist was also a copycat or collaborated with the terrorist Islamic State remains to be determined by the investigation. There is a version that Jalilov could be a member of the so-called ISIS sleeper cell. Members of such groups often for a long time hide their intentions, and sometimes even express anti-Islamic views in public in order to avert suspicion from themselves for the time being. At the same time, the leadership of the Islamic State may not even control the actions of the “sleeper cells.”
On May 22, explosions occurred in Manchester during a concert by American singer Ariana Grande. 22 people were killed and more than 120 were injured. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
On the night of June 4, there was another terrorist attack in London. And again, the terrorists first crushed people in a minibus, and then rushed at them with knives. Six people died.
On June 4, during a football match in Turin, 1,527 people were injured in a stampede, fearing a terrorist attack. The reason was the prank of two teenagers. Deciding to play pranks, they pretended to be suicide bombers. As a result of this unfortunate joke, three people, including seven year old boy, are in critical condition.
On June 5, a shooting occurred in the office of a company in Orlando, America, which claimed the lives of five people. The attacker turned out to be not an ISIS fighter, but a veteran of the ground forces. armed forces USA John Robert Newman Jr. The investigation claims that he had hostile relations at least with one of the victims. After shooting the office staff, he shot himself.
The largest terrorist attack in recent times occurred on May 31 in the capital of Afghanistan. The number of victims exceeded 150 people, about 600 were injured. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the explosion near the presidential palace and foreign embassy buildings.
And so latest news– Iran, which seemed relatively safe place: There have been no terrorist attacks there since 2010. On June 7, there was a series of attacks on the country's parliament and Khomeini's mausoleum. So far, 12 dead and 39 wounded are known. The same IG admitted to the crime...
* Islamic State recognized terrorist organization, whose activities in Russia were officially prohibited by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated December 29, 2014.Sergey ZHELEZNYAK, member of the committee for international affairs State Duma:
– The terrorist attacks on the Iranian parliament and Khomeini’s mausoleum are barbaric crimes and an attempt to put pressure on the Iranian state leading active struggle With international terrorism. Another bloody act of terrorists causes anger and indignation. Terrorists carry out senseless terrorist attacks, knowing that they are losing in the Middle East. The joint actions of Russia, Iran and Turkey made it possible not only to strengthen the fight against terrorism in Syria, but also to transfer the confrontation within the country into the mainstream of the ongoing negotiation process. Against this background, the actions of the coalition led by the United States look especially provocative and criminal, which once again dealt a blow to the forces government troops President Assad.
“Imarat Kavkaz” (“Caucasian Emirate”) is an international organization officially banned in Russia.
The Islamic Party of Turkestan (formerly the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan) is an international organization officially banned in Russia. ** Supreme Court Russian Federation dated November 13, 2008 No. GKPI 08-1956, entered into force November 27, 2008 recognized the Al-Qaeda organization as extremist and prohibited in Russia
The ocean holds many secrets, and the surf sometimes brings something completely unimaginable to the shore. The man tries to pretend that he has control over all the elements, but is unable to identify some of the “monsters” thrown up by the storm. Do people know all kinds of living things? We know less than 15% of the 8.7 million species living on Earth. Thus, 85% of creatures on land and underwater remain mysterious to us. We will tell you about some of them.
15. The Monster from Montauk
The Montauk Monster is an unidentified animal that washed ashore on a beach near Montauk, New York, United States in July 2008. The story began when the local newspaper The Independent published a report that on July 12, 2008, Chief Britton and three of his comrades found the corpse of a strange creature on the beach.
This discovery gave rise to many speculations; initially it was believed that the “monster” was a creature unknown to science, then they thought it was a turtle without a shell or a dog without hair.
Maggie Jones, director of the Mystic Nature Center, said after studying the photos it was most likely a raccoon.
14. The Monster of Canvey Island
The Canvey Island Monster - that's what they called it unusual creature, whose corpse washed ashore on Canvey Island, England, in November 1953. A second similar corpse was found there in August 1954. Only one photograph has survived, and even that one is of poor quality.
It looked like a toad that had legs but no arms. But seriously, the monster was described as " unknown creature, 76 centimeters in length, with thick reddish-brown skin, large bulging eyes, a soft head and gills.” The creature had hind limbs with five toes and horseshoe-shaped feet with concave arches that were supposed to be suitable for walking upright, but no forelimbs.
Some scientists believe that the remains could belong to some unknown species deep sea fish, and the fins were mistaken for legs.
13. “Roch Ness” monster
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, quite scary monster was washed ashore on the quiet Lake Hollingworth in Rochdale, England. They say it was just over five feet long, with a huge mouth full of incredibly sharp teeth.
The couple who came across the creature initially thought it was a crocodile. Later they decided that it was nothing more than a strange pike that had grown a little more than usual. Even if it's "just" pike, you won't want to swim in Rochdale.
12. Sakhalin miracle-yudo
The city of Shakhtersk on Sakhalin attracted zoologists, paleontologists and mystery lovers when a carcass washed ashore unknown to science a three-meter creature - with a nose resembling a beak and a tail covered with hair. There were many versions about who this was. Locals couldn't identify mysterious beast. Judging by the bones and teeth, this is not a fish, although it looks like a dolphin; the skeleton looked a bit like a crocodile, and the creature's skin was covered with fur. If it's a dolphin, then why is it hairy? And how did you get to Sakhalin? According to some sources, the creature was washed back into the water; according to others, it was taken away by the special services.
Specialists in scientific work Primorsky Oceanarium suggested: “Judging by the shape of the skull and the size of the animal, most likely it could be a large dolphin from the beaked whale family. The size of adult animals is from 5 to 9 meters. The largest is the northern swimmer. The animals are quite rare and live above deep sea areas or in the depths. Therefore, they are extremely rare off the coast or in the shelf area.”
11. Trunko-globster
Tranco or trunco is the name of an animal that was seen in 1924 near the city of Marit in South Africa. An article about him entitled “The Polar Bear Fish” was published on December 27, 1924 in the London Daily Mail. Eyewitnesses observed how an unusual huge animal, similar to a fish covered with hair, fought with two killer whales off the shore. It used its tail and jumped out of the water to a height of over 20 feet. Later strange creature washed ashore off Margate Beach and was described as "an animal possessing snow-white fur, an elephant's trunk, a lobster tail, and a carcass devoid of blood."
In 2010, however, the long-standing secret of Trunko was revealed. Trunko was nothing more than a globster, which is a massive, tough "bag" of fat and skin containing collagen that is sometimes left behind when a whale dies and its skull and skeleton are separated from the skin and sink to the sea floor.
10. The Beast of Tenby
A resident of Tenby, UK, was walking along the beach when he found the corpse of an unknown animal on the sand. While closely studying his find, 27-year-old Peter Bailey realized that he did not know a single animal similar to this strange creature. Fearing that the monster would be washed away by the wave, the man took a photograph of it and remembered its distinctive features.
“It looked disgusting. My first impression is a creepy cross: the face of a horse, the claws of a bear and the body of a pig. It is obvious that the creature was covered with fur, but in the process of decomposition most of hair fell out,” is how he described his find.
Local zoologists decided that the photographs showed “the bloated corpse of a Jack Russell dog.” In search of a competent specialist, the man turned to Swansea University, located in Wales, where they decided that it was a badger. But the inquisitive Briton Peter Bailey doubts such conclusions and continues to look for the answer.
9. Giant eyes
When you think about the things that wash up on shore, the things that come to mind are a bottle with a note, clothes, garbage and a ton of plastic. To the horror of those who often walk along the beaches, recently gigantic eyeballs began to be found on the shores of seas around the world.
Experts who personally examined these eyes, as well as those who reviewed photographs and videos, concluded that at least one of them belonged to a swordfish. But why does the sea throw separately the eyes ashore? No answer yet.
8. Dead birds
On the coast Pacific Ocean washed ashore thousands dead birds, and no one knows why. Usually, a small amount of such birds always occur, because they die during strong storms and severe storms, but such mass death- this is an unprecedented phenomenon.
Birds have been found all along the coast, from Oregon to southern California, and this prompted scientists to try to understand the situation and uncover the causes of death of the birds. Also strange is the fact that representatives of more than just one species are dying. In fact, four were discovered various types birds dying in such large numbers. One possible explanation is the lack of food for the growing chicks. Another possibility concerns climate change, and this is the most likely theory.
7. Strongsay Monster
Here is a drawing of the Stronsay monster made by Sir Alexander Gibson in 1808. The Stronsay Beast was a large dead carcass or globster that washed ashore on the island of Stronsay, Orkney, after a storm on 25 September 1808.
The carcass was 55 feet long, and since part of the tail was missing, the animal itself was probably even larger. The Natural History Society of Edinburgh was unable to identify the corpse and suggested it was a species sea serpent. Later, anatomist Everard Dom stated that there were decomposed remains of a giant shark. In 1849, Scottish professor John Goodsir in Edinburgh came to the same conclusion. However, the largest documented basking shark is 40 feet long, and if the Stronsay creature was indeed over 55 feet, its nature remains a mystery. Drawings of the decomposing carcass of the beast, which have survived to this day, are surprisingly similar in shape and size to images of the Loch Ness monster.
6. The Monster from St. Augustine
A large and mysterious corpse washed ashore in St. Augustine, Florida in 1896. The supposed species received the Latin name Octopus giganteus (giant octopus) and the Greek Otoctopus giganteus (can be translated as “giant eared octopus"). These names are against the rules International Code zoological nomenclature and are not recognized by them, however, like the very fact of the existence of a giant octopus. Giant octopus or octopus - hypothetical sea creature, like a kraken. Information about him is obtained mainly from legends.
An English scientist named Verrill believed that the remains of a marine invertebrate washed up on the coast of St. Augustine were the body of a “true octopus.” colossal sizes", and calls it Octopus giganteus - a giant octopus. An article about this appeared in the American scientific journal. In addition, Professor Verrill published a description of the estimated size, shape and habits of the giant cephalopod in the New York Herald newspaper: “The weight of the living creature should have been between 18 and 20 tons. The animal's tentacles must have reached huge size, each up to 100 feet (30 meters) long or more, and as thick as the mast of a large ship. They were equipped with hundreds of saucer-shaped suckers, the largest of which must have been at least a foot in diameter... The eyes must have been over a foot in diameter. His ink sac contained 10-12 gallons of ink. No doubt it could swim quickly, but it usually crawled slowly along the bottom in search of prey. It must be noted that wherever this creature lives, there must be hundreds and even thousands of individuals of the same size, otherwise their species would become extinct." The professor further wrote that the animal most likely died in a fight with a sperm whale, was partially eaten by it, and what was left of it was washed ashore.
5. New Zealand Globster
A storm washed up the remains of an unknown animal, covered with a shaggy skin, toothy and quite scary-looking, on a New Zealand beach. The half-decomposed corpse had a large head with huge conical teeth, rudimentary limbs and severely damaged tail section. The length of the find was about nine meters.
The excitement among the public and journalists did not contribute to a calm study of the monster. They immediately started calling the animal a giant moray eel, a dinosaur, saltwater crocodile and so on. The chairman of the local Zoological Society said that he did not have the slightest idea what kind of creature it was, and suggested conditionally calling it a globster. But a specialist marine mammals Anton Van Helden confidently identified the remains of an ordinary killer whale in the corpse.
4. Gumbo
The large creature washed ashore at Bungalow Beach in The Gambia in 1983. Owen Burnham, the 15-year-old boy who discovered the beast, sketched it, and this is the only image of his discovery.
Because of external resemblance villager They decided it was a dolphin. But there were no fins on his body, but rather limbs that were more like rudimentary paws. Its muzzle resembled a beak. Unfortunately, there are no photographs or any information about the fate of “Gumbo”.
3. Bermuda blob
In May 1988, the remains of a large animal, called the Bermuda blob (blob - drop, ball), were discovered in the shallow waters of Mangrove Bay, the largest of Bermuda. Local fisherman Teddy Tucker described the carcass as "2.5 meters, 70 cm thick, very white and fibrous, with five limbs, like a misshapen star." No bones, no cartilage, no holes, no smell. Three men were unable to turn the carcass over. It was incredibly difficult to cut even a small piece from it. Teddy managed to do it before the carcass was washed into the ocean.
Zoologists who were sent photographs of the Bermuda blob found it difficult to identify the animal. Seven years later, biochemical analysis by Sidney Pierce's team (who also examined tissue from the St. Augustine monster) showed that it was most likely the remains of a huge fish.
2. Hybrid blob
A hybrid blob washed up on the Scottish coast in 1990, and even advanced biological methods classifications did not help - this creature still remains unidentified and unknown. Louise Witts, who discovered the thing, described it this way: “It was something, and it looked like there was a head at one end and a tail at the other; the curved back was covered with what looked like fins along the back. »
Another mysterious creature, which we will never be able to determine.
1. Shoes...with remains of feet
One of the craziest and most disturbing finds ever made on the shore became known as the "Salish Sea legs." At some point, people began to find shoes on the shore, and to their horror, they discovered that all of these shoes still contained the feet of their owners. More precisely, fragments of legs.
Between 2008 and 2016, a total of 16 of these creepy footwear items were found. Some have been identified, but most belong to people who have never been found or identified. No explanation has yet been found for these findings.
Residents of the island compare the found animal with a dinosaur and a Gangetic dolphin.
The carcass of an unknown animal washed up on the shore of Sakhalin near the airport in Shakhtersk. Judging by the remains, the creature was twice the size of a man, had a long nose, similar to a bird's beak, the back and tail are covered long hair. Photos of the unseen sea beast sparked a debate on social networks. Local residents found the animal's resemblance to an ancient dinosaur, apparently referring to the pliosaur, an aquatic lizard that lived about 150 million years ago.
According to a more plausible version, the creature found could be Gangetic river dolphin, since it has similar sizes and body shape. However, supporters of this theory still have many questions: it is unclear how freshwater dolphin, living in the basins of South Asia, ended up off the coast of Sakhalin. The hair of the found monster is also puzzling: its tail and back are covered with fur, while the Gangetic dolphin has smooth skin. Some eyewitnesses suggest that these are stuck seaweed, others claim that it is wool. “Probably our summer is so cold that even Indian dolphins get covered in fur when they get into local waters,” one resident joked on social networks. The publication SakhalinMedia writes about the amazing find.
The Gangetic dolphin differs most sharply from other species of dolphins: it grows up to 2.6 m in length, reaching a weight of up to 90 kg. The animal has a semi-lunar long body, an elongated narrow beak-shaped nose and a steep frontal protrusion. Instead of dorsal fin the dolphin has a low triangular hump. For the characteristic sound made when breathing, the animal received a second name - susuk. Long-term residence in muddy fresh water led to the loss of the lens and loss of vision: the susuk is practically blind, orients itself using echolocation. The populations of dolphins living in the Indus and Ganges rivers have not interbred for several centuries, in connection with this, some scientists distinguish two species: the Gangetic dolphin and the small Gangetic dolphin.
That a rare fish was recently caught in Australia giant shark, about which scientists know very little. The 6.3m specimen has been transferred to Museum Victoria in Melbourne for study. As employees admit, in 160 years they have only had to deal with three animals of this endangered species.
P.S. As it became known on July 1, scientists from the Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography were able to identify the species of the animal from its remains: with a 95% probability it is a northern swimmer. “We gathered a group of scientists. We looked through all the versions and came to the conclusion that the remains found on the shore belonged to a baby whale,” SakhalinMedia quotes Nikolai Kim, deputy head of the SakhNIRO forecasting department. “First of all, we paid attention to the beak. It indicates that the remains belong to either a dolphin or a whale. Secondly, we looked at the body size - at least 3 m. Dolphins cannot be that huge. But the bodies of whales exceed 10 m in length, and their calves reach just 3-4 m - minimum size. As for the discovered hair, all newborn whales and dolphins have a small amount of hair at the beginning of their lives. Then he disappears. Judging by all the signs, the animal washed ashore is a northern swimmer, or rather, its calf. With such a description, only he lives in those waters. This is a species that is typical for the area. You can never be 100% sure of anything, so let’s say this: we are 95% sure.”