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The New Cryptid Discussion topic; Discuss here !
Topic Started: Aug 11 2015, 01:22 PM (6,299 Views)
Murdock129
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Officially speaking, the general consensus was it was merely your average every day Globster and the 'Fur' was exposed connective tissue fibres.

In general, while a trunked and hairy whale is not impossible, it's pretty implausible that a marine species would evolve either a trunk or fur, let alone both. If it was a real animal, rather than just a piece of dead whale, it's almost certainly some kind of genetically mutated regular whale, rather than a species.
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Cheshire Litten
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I'd say it's trunk could be used to stay submerged and feed while still being able to breath.
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It's illogical that a whale of the size described would spend it's entire time close enough to the surface to breath via a trunk, doubly so since whales in general are evolved to remain underwater for extended times and breath via the much more practical blowhole.

All in all, a trunk is essentially useless to a whale, even if we were talking about it using it to grip things, akin to an elephant's, it'd still be mostly pointless as larger whales have little to no need to grip anything small enough that they can't simply use their mouths.

Not to mention no other whales historically have trunks, in Elephants or Tapirs the Trunk has a practical purpose and has been growing for millions of years, for whales it's basically useless and there's no evidence that one ever has been growing.

So yes, either it's a mutant, or more likely, a Globster
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I'm pretty sure there was at least one species of trunked whale from earlier in the Cenozoic (I forget its name). It's extinct now though.
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While I won't dismiss that out of hand, I will say I've personally never heard of it.

Also you need to be a little more specific, since the Cenozoic era is basically 65 million years lol
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I believe he's referring to Makaracetus, which did indeed have a small proboscis similar to a Tapir ;) early eocene period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makaracetus
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So 55 million years ago, to 33.9 million.

While I have learned something today (thank you all of you, you're better than my biology professor), this is far from proof of the Trunko. While it does show it's possible for whales to evolve to have a trunk, it doesn't explain the fur, nor the other questions surrounding this bizarre Cryptid
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I don't think CI was using that as an explanation for Trunko, just that it was entirely plausible for whales to have trunks.
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Could have been an elephant seal... Wasn't it seen in South Africa? That's not too far out of a Southern Elephant Seal's range. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

That said, the description of the best (white fur, elephantine trunk, crustaceous tail, and no blood in the carcass) definitely reminds me of decaying Basking sharks like the Zuiyo-Maru creature. Of course, Orcas rarely if ever eat heavily decayed flesh, and a corpse cannot leap 20 feet out of the water as was described in the original account.
Edited by Acinonyx Jubatus, Aug 19 2015, 12:33 PM.
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A decaying corpse which then proceeds to be exaggerated upon seems most plausible, but were that wrong, an Elephant Seal seems like the most rational explanation.
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It likely a new kind of Elephant Seal, you cant say they cant have fur, ALL seals have fur at some stage.
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Why does it have to be a new kind of elephant seal?
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1. it's way too furry for a adult elephant seal.
2. we have barely discovered what is out there.
3. actual elephant seals are not exactly like a trunko.
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Or of course, there's the logical explanation, that the description given to us of the Trunko is heavily exaggerated or misconstrued.

I highly doubt the Trunko, as it was described, exists or ever did exist
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Any cryptids with plausible evidence that are not Bigfoot, Yeti, Mokele Mbeme, Burronjor or the Mngwa
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