MYSTERY SOLVED
"MERCURY BAY MONSTER" [from our own correspondent] WHITIANGA, Monday The mystery of tho so-eallod Mercury Bay monster, recently found washed up on the beach, has at last been solved. Mr. A. W. B. Powell, of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, in a letter to Mr. I?. A. Stow, of Whitianga, stated that the skeleton is that of a large mako shark that was possibly washed up by the February gales. Tho "jaw-like structure" is the pelvic girdle and tho "whiskers" are rays from the fins.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22434, 2 June 1936, Page 8
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