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I don't know about plagiarism, but the claims being made in the article sound hokey. Are there any references to back them up? What 'scientific journal' contains the juvenile caddy photos? Who did the 'three pairs of human hands' that supposedly held the specimens belong to?

64.131.172.157 20:26, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

This article is a mess! I can't even help it! It looks like it was Plagarised! Can someone more experienced deal with this? --Gamingboy 19:39, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Clearly plagarized. 2 Taxobox? 3 Rewrite 4 Bat out of hell?

[edit] Clearly plagarized.

Should I just delete it myself or is there a procedure for this?

Wandering Librarian

Where was this copied from if it was plagiarized? Before deleting, generally it is marked for deletion and sometimes a discussion about deletion will occur beforehand, to establish a consensus. If this indeed is plagiarization, I would be more than happy to rewrite it completely to solve the problem; and better yet, if I see a possible specimen next time I am out and about, I will be sure to snap a clear high resolution photo (if it exists). Nonprof. Frinkus 04:43, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Two centuries of documented surface sightings, independently by many pobservers, along 3000 miles of N. American Pacific coastal waters, a type specimen with a published 3-week curatorial record before its loss, 3 subsequent juvenile specimens-in-hand, and a sidescan sonar image of a large (14 m) animal on the bottom of Lake Okanagan scacely constitutes plagiarism. The original external morphological description (1995) meets all ICZN (1999) requirements for formal publication, in a refereed scientific journal, of a new zoological species, no life stage of which can be identified with a previously known animal species, living or fossil.

[edit] Taxobox?

Since Caddy's been formally described and named, should he be given a taxobox?

Indeed not, as it is a nomen nudum. Pictures do not form a valid specimen — especially as they probably are of a squid tentacle :o).--MWAK 11:22, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

That tentacle looks somewhat too long for a squid - giant squid are only supposed to have a maximum overall size of 13 meters. On another note, the Globster article mentions something about the evidence being destroyed by the scientific community, but this article says nothing about the 1937 incident. Shouldn't there be a mention? Esn 01:23, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

There would have to be proof that it was deliberately destroyed. My personal suspicion (OR alert!) is that it was 'lost' after being exhibited in America, probably by someone who 'didn't believe in sea monsters'. Totnesmartin 15:01, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I think this whole article needs a do over, the whole thing is pretty much just 5 huge sentences.

[edit] Rewrite

I rerote the whole article!Ornithomimus 15:16, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bat out of hell?

It seems to me that if most spacecrafts and space debris burn up at speeds of under the low 10s of thousands of km/hr in our upper atmosphere, which is considerably less dense than that of the lower atmosphere, it is unlikely that a biological entity of any type we know could survive speeds of anything even close to 100,000 km/hr. If air has the density of 1.2 kg/m cubed, and a rock burns to dust in our atmosphere before reaching the ground at say 20,000 km per hour, then it seems highly improbable that, on its own, a living creature could survive higher speeds under water, in which the density of matter is in theory 1000kg/m cubed (give or take some due to salt and mineral content).