{"id":266361,"date":"2021-06-03T22:54:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T19:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mysterious-giant-skull-washes-ashore-on-new-jersey-beach\/"},"modified":"2021-06-03T22:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T19:54:57","slug":"mysterious-giant-skull-washes-ashore-on-new-jersey-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mysterious-giant-skull-washes-ashore-on-new-jersey-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mysterious giant skull washes ashore on New Jersey beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Mysterious giant skull washes ashore on New Jersey beach<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                                        A giant skull with something akin to tweezers for a mouth washed ashore in New Jersey, igniting a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> debate over what it might be\u2014and more importantly\u2014what killed it.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-banner first-banner ads-336x280\"><!-- \/4988204\/Phys_Story_InText_Box --><br \/>\n      <\/section>\n<p>The skull\u2014picked clean of all flesh\u2014was found Monday at Island Beach State Park, according to a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/748845991957320\/posts\/1901862519988989\/\">Facebook post<\/a> from park officials. The 10-mile-long park is on one of New Jersey&#8217;s barrier islands, about 75 miles east of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You never know what you are going to find on the beach after a storm. Our State Park Police found this skull yesterday,&#8221; the park wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Park staff did not give dimensions of the skull, but a photo shows it stood waist-high alongside an officer and was a couple of feet wide.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation for people to guess what it might be has gotten 2,700 reactions, 2,000 comments and 6,500 shares in the past day.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the commenters guessed it was some kind of whale, which are often picked apart by hungry sharks and other marine life while drifting dead in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fislandbeachstatepark%2Fposts%2F1901862519988989&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"708\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some wondered if it was a giant tooth, rather than a skull. A few pointed out it also resembled the skull of a pterodactyl, the prehistoric flying reptile.<\/p>\n<p>The idea it was floating unseen among Memorial Day vacationers horrified many people on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Never mind it floating by, I&#8217;d be more worried about what killed an animal that size. Scary,&#8221; one woman wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something from (a) lab &#8230; experiments with animals. One got away and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to have been eaten &#8230; ,&#8221; a man posted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seriously it reminds me of a prehistoric bird!&#8221; another commenter said.<\/p>\n<p>So what is it?<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the park updated its Facebook post to report it was confirmed to be the lower &#8220;jaw and skull of a minke whale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for how it died, that remains unresolved.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                            Prehistoric elephant skull excavated in New Mexico\n                                        <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a92021 The Charlotte Observer. 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