Country

South Africa

cases
2
years
1924–1938

Explained: 2

  1. 1920–1929

    1. 1924 Sea serpents and sea monsters · Explained Trunko, the “Fish Like a Polar Bear” Beach at Margate, KwaZulu-Natal Witnesses saw a white creature fighting orcas off the Natal coast – then the sea cast up its headless, “hairy” carcass with something like a trunk.
  2. 1930–1939

    1. 1938 Living fossils · Explained The Coelacanth: A Fish Older than the Dinosaurs in a Trawler's Catch Waters off the Chalumna River mouth near East London, Eastern Cape A museum curator in East London spotted among a trawler's fish a blue specimen with fleshy fins – it proved to be a coelacanth, thought extinct for 66 million years.