The Mysterious Creature That Washed Up on a Tasmanian Beach

Something interesting popped up on the beach in the 60s.. During the winter then, three stockmen working remote cattle country on Tasmania's west coast found something on a beach that weighed somewhere between five and ten tonnes. No eyes. No mouth, just soft tusk-like protrusions. A visible spine, six fleshy limbs, and a coat of stiff white bristles, one of them compared to a full season's wool clip. It sat there for eighteen months before anyone outside a handful of locals even heard about it. Then a CSIRO scientist overheard the story in a pub, and within days it was front-page news around the world. The government investigation that followed took two years to even reach the beach, and the final scientific identification wasn't published until 1981, twenty-one years after the discovery. Pretty much what this video covers is the whole case, start to finish, what it actually was, and why people are still arguing about it decades later.

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