Another rare 'sea monster' lands in California: a 15-foot saber-toothed whale
Another rare 'sea monster' lands in California: a 15-foot saber-toothed whale
By Michael Martinez, CNN
updated 12:14 PM EDT, Fri October 18, 2013
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Oh, Jules Verne or Peter Benchley, where are you, great writers of deep-sea monsters?
For the second time this week, Southern California has seen a rare sea beast washed ashore, far from home waters.
This time, it's a saber-toothed whale, better known to live in deep Alaskan waters than in the warm surf of tourist-choked Venice Beach in Los Angeles where it stranded Wednesday.
In an extraordinary way even for scientists, the carcass of the nearly 15-foot and 2,000-pound whale was intact -- except for a couple of fresh bite marks from sharks. The whale, a female, apparently was barely alive when it came ashore -- a highly unusual sight because beached whales are often badly decomposed or badly eaten by marine life, a local biologist said....
More, with video at link: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/17/us/saber-toothed-whale-california/
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put on the 
I really *do* think this has to do with the radiation in the ocean...
next, we really *will* see Godzilla emerging from the depths and walking onshore!
...besides, this is exactly how the movie starts out ... 
