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  The UnMuseum - The Zeuglodon
There has been speculation that the Zeuglodon is not dead, but inhabiting cold water lakes like Loch Ness and Lake Champlain as their famous monsters.
While this seems unlikely, it is not at all impossible, since the Coelacanth, a primitive fish thought to be extinct for 65 million years, showed up off the coast of South Africa in 1938.
The Zeuglodon is the official state fossil of Alabama and is protected by law.
www.unmuseum.org /zeuglodo.htm   (771 words)

  
  Basilosaurus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When the British anatomist Sir Richard Owen studied the spine, mandibular fragments, arms, and ribs (recently found) he proclaimed them to be mammalian.
Owen proposed renaming the find to Zeuglodon cetoides (Yoked-tooth), which is now a junior synonym; though the latter is considered by many to be a more fitting name, the first-published name always takes precedent.
Zeuglodon name is in reference to the double rooted teeth typical of marine mammals.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basilosaurus   (904 words)

  
 The Cryptid Zoo: Zeuglodons (or Basilosaurus)
Zeuglodons are a group of primitive whales that are thought to have died out 30 million years ago.
Zeuglodons are suggested often as the explanation for sea serpent and lake monster reports.
Zeuglodons probably evolved from mesonychids, a family of hoofed predators, or from very close relatives of the mesonychids.
www.newanimal.org /zeuglodons.htm   (494 words)

  
 The UnMuseum - The Zeuglodon
There has been speculation that the Zeuglodon is not dead, but inhabiting cold water lakes like Loch Ness and Lake Champlain as their famous monsters.
While this seems unlikely, it is not at all impossible, since the Coelacanth, a primitive fish thought to be extinct for 65 million years, showed up off the coast of South Africa in 1938.
The Zeuglodon is the official state fossil of Alabama and is protected by law.
unmuseum.mus.pa.us /zeuglodo.htm   (771 words)

  
 Official State of Alabama Fossil
Staff of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences studied the skeleton and said it was not a lizard, but a meat-eating member of the whale family.
Zeuglodons averaged from fifty-five to seventy feet long and had tails up to forty feet long.
Fossil remains of this gigantic whale were first found in Clarke County about 1833; bones were later discovered in Choctaw and Washington Counties.
www.archives.state.al.us /emblems/st_fosil.html   (207 words)

  
 Cadborosaurus Willsi - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
It is suggested that the creature is a Zeuglodon, but that explanation isn't 100% satisfactory seeing that it is much slimmer and the head is shaped improperly.
This suggests that it is a Zeuglodon, an ancient whale thought to be extinct.
The monster of Lake Okanagon, known as Ogopogo, is believed to be a Zeuglodon, but the sightings are different of that of Caddy.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=4601   (1207 words)

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