A gigantic skull on a Monterey Bay beach that has visitors posting snapshots to social media poses something of a mystery, a California museum reported.
The skull at Pajaro Dunes State Beach in Watsonville probably belongs to either a fin or blue whale, experts told SFGate.
“They’re both gigantic whales,” Robert Boessenecker, chief paleontologist at the Charleston Center for Paleontology in South Carolina, told the publication.
“I mean, they’ve got skulls that are measured in meters rather than feet or centimeters. And they’re quite similar.”
The skull likely comes from a whale carcass that washed ashore in October, the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
The remains were too badly decomposed to identify.
🐋🦴 An interesting feature has taken up residence on Pajaro Dunes beach and many curious local have been sending us images over the past few months trying to make sense of this behemoth.
📷 Yvonne Rew-Falk @whyvonnegiraffe pic.twitter.com/MstzGWLFPj
— Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History (@SantaCruzMuseum) February 4, 2024
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