New Zealand ‘Sea Monster’

FIRST it was deadly poisonous sea slugs, toxic algae and shark attacks, now New Zealand is gaining notoriety for its sea monsters.

A video titled Strange Pukehina sea creature has gone viral and somehow it has been picked up by the British media. The vision of the dead animal was uploaded by someone calling herself Elizabeth Ann and she asked viewers to help her identify what it was. The British Daily Telegraph reported,

According to Marine mammal expert Anton van Helden, the creature is probably a killer whale.

He told New Zealand’s Channel 3 that the fin structure of the creature is similar to that of a killer whale, which are common around the area in which the carcass was found.

Tests are being carried out on the carcass to confirm this theory.

But no-one appears to be asking the obvious question – how did the killer whale die?

Not a victim of poisonous sea slug or shark attack, we hope.