e/Stronsay Beast

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has glosseng: The Stronsay beast was a large, dead sea-creature that washed ashore on the island of Stronsay (at the time spelled Stronsa), in the Orkney Islands, after a storm in 1808. The carcass measured 55 feet in length, but as part of the tail was apparently missing, the animal was actually longer than that (Wernerian Society Notes, 1808-1810, Library, Royal Museum, Edinburgh). The Natural History Society (Wernerian Society) of Edinburgh could not identify the carcass and decided it was a new species, probably a sea serpent. Later the anatomist Sir Everard Home in London dismissed the measurement, declaring it must have been around 36 feet, and deemed it to be a decayed basking shark (basking sharks can take on a pseudo plesiosaur appearance during decomposition). In 1849 the Scottish professor Goodsir in Edinburgh came to the same conclusion. However, the largest reliably recorded basking shark was 40 feet in length, so at 55 feet in length, the Beast of Stronsay still constitutes something of a cryptozoological enigma.
lexicalizationeng: Stronsay Beast
instance ofe/Cryptid
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German
has glossdeu: Als Monster von Stronsay (engl. "Stronsay Beast") wird ein bis heute nicht sicher identifiziertes Tier bezeichnet, dessen Kadaver am 25. September 1808 von einem Fischer namens John Peace entdeckt wurde.
lexicalizationdeu: Monster von Stronsay
Italian
has glossita: La Bestia di Stronsay è un misterioso corpo in via di decomposizione di una creatura marina incagliatasi a Stronsay, nelle Isole Orcadi, in Scozia, nel 1808. La carcassa misurava 16.76 metri di lunghezza, il solo "collo" ne misurava 4.57, la circonferenza del corpo era di 3 metri circa. Gli zoologi del Royal Museum di Edimburgo , non come acconsentendo alla classificazione di "specie sconosciuta". Tuttavia, successivamente, Sir Everard Home, anatomista londinese, ha chiesto di ottenere un campione della misteriosa carcassa. Dopo lanalisi di una coppia delle vertebre, ha concluso che la "Bestia di Stronsay" era semplicemente uno squalo anormale. Molti scozzesi hanno protestato allinterpretazione dellanatomista, così che, nel 1849, il dottor GoodSir ha effettuato ulteriori analisi, ma anchegli facendo la stessa affermazione precedentemente disputata.
lexicalizationita: Bestia di Stronsay
Chinese
has glosszho: 斯特龍塞怪獸是一大型的海洋生物屍體,於1808年在風暴後沖上英國奧克尼群島斯特龍塞的岸上。
lexicalizationzho: 斯特龍塞怪獸
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