HEADLESS IN HAYBURN WYKE
During mid-January 2024, the media carried a number of reports appertaining to a very large decomposed carcase discovered and photographed on a remote beach at Hayburn Wyke, near Scarborough in North Yorkshire, by rockpool explorer Caroline Pindar. Even though it was both headless and tailless, the carcase still measured some 16ft (4.8m) in length, and appeared to possess throat pleats like those characterising baleen whales. Also, among the bones visibly protruding through the dead creature’s white stringy skin (exposed connective tissue fibres), a pair of bones recognised by some cetacean experts as the radius and ulna of a whale flipper could be clearly perceived. The consensus, therefore, is that it was a common (northern) minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata. www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12968307/Mysterious-faceless-seabeast-leaves-locals-BAFFLED-washes-beach-Yorkshire.
SNAPPER SNAPPED
On 5 February 2024, parish…
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