{"id":266607,"date":"2021-06-03T21:57:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T18:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mystery-of-huge-skull-found-on-nj-beach-has-been-solved\/"},"modified":"2021-06-03T21:57:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T18:57:53","slug":"mystery-of-huge-skull-found-on-nj-beach-has-been-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mystery-of-huge-skull-found-on-nj-beach-has-been-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mystery of huge skull found on NJ beach has been solved"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mystery of huge skull found on NJ beach has been solved<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The cranial caper has been cracked.<\/p>\n

New Jersey officials have finally identified the mysterious giant skull that was found on a beach Monday after a storm.<\/p>\n

The gnarly noggin first came to light Tuesday after the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection posted pictures on Twitter <\/a>of the bizarre, dinosaur-esque dome, which they had discovered at Island Beach State Park. <\/p>\n

They then challenged Twitter<\/a> to name the animal that sported the prehistoric-looking body part, prompting social-media biologists to label it everything from a \u201cpelican\u201d<\/a> to a \u201cpterodactyl.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Officials have since identified the mega melon as the lower jaw and skull of a Minke whale, per a recent tweet.<\/a> This particular specimen had reportedly been buried on the beach last June, after it became stranded and died, NBC reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

Indeed, Bob Schoelkopf, director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center<\/a> in Brigantine, New Jersey, confirmed that the skull surfaced in a location similar to where they had interred the cetacean in sand last summer. <\/p>\n

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The prehistoric-looking skull had baffled the internet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He suspects that the remains were unearthed by the heavy surf and winds that pounded the Eastern Seaboard over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that it washed back up is not unusual,\u201d said the wildlife expert, who estimates that this phenomenon occurs at least once a year.<\/p>\n

Exhumation risk notwithstanding, wildlife officials reportedly often bury the whales in the same spot they got beached as transporting these massive beasts elsewhere for burial can prove expensive and time-consuming. <\/p>\n

The Minke whale, while one of the smallest baleen species, can still weigh up to 20,000 pounds and measure a whopping 35 feet long, according to Oceana.org.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have an animal that weighs that much, you just don\u2019t pick it up and carry it someplace,\u201d said Schoelkopf.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time odd-looking flotsam has flabbergasted the social-media masses. This past September, a Wisconsin beachcomber blew the internet\u2019s mind after posting a pic of a brain that had washed ashore.\n <\/p><\/div>\n