animal's true scale is uncertain. Mr Westfield said: "Basically the whole head element was either decomposed or missing or pointing in the wrong direction. "We were unable to say, ‘right, there’s the head element of it’ so we suspect it could have been longer."Inspecting the remains in person did offer some clues.
Matthew said: "The lady that actually reported it to us had done a bit of research and had initially come back saying that she thought it might have been a basking shark. "Well by the pictures we initially didn’t think so because of the size of it and because it is rare to get basking sharks wash up on the beaches around Wales. "So initially we thought it was going to be a whale but when we actually got there and did an exam on.
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