Talk:St. Augustine Monster

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An entry from St. Augustine Monster appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 10 October 2006.

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Very nice scholarly page, but yeah OK I think it could be more usefully entitled "St Augustine Carcass" or similar. Better than a merge. Tullimonstrum 16:47, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bites your head off

If it was an octopus or a squid, the giant bird-beak would identify it. For such a huge invertebrae, the beak should be one meter (yard) large! No beak, no monster, so it was most possibly a rotten whale. 195.70.48.242 08:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

There were initial reports of a "mouth". I will add a quote as I work through the article. Mgiganteus1 11:19, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paranormal??

Why is this catagorized as paranormal? This is not pseudoscience like astrology or creationism. This is a carcass that washed up on the beach, nothing "paranormal" about it. L0b0t 12:39, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Hmmmm, I'd agree with you. Removed it for now. Someone should start WikiProject:Cryptozoology. Mgiganteus1 12:59, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

For the moment, Cryptozoology is covered by WikiProject Paranormal. --InShaneee 18:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Paranormal is a very broad term which refers to a variety of physical and psychical phenomenon, including cryptozoology. It's not really a synonym for supernatural. A paranormal topic is one which cannot be explained by science at the present but may be explained in the future. Zagalejo 02:40, 13 October 2006 (UTC)