Cadborosaurus willsi

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Purported "Cadborosaurus willsi" remains.

"Cadborosaurus willsi", nicknamed "Caddy", is the name given in a formal description to a cryptid species. It is described as a large aquatic animal living along the Pacific Coast of North America, presumed to be a sea serpent or other sea monster. Its name is derived from Cadboro Bay in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Greek root word "sauros" meaning lizard or reptile. The animal is similar in form and behaviour, and presumed related to, various popularly named lake monsters such as "Ogopogo" of deep interior lakes of British Columbia and to the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland. Among the localities at which more than 300 documented sightings have been made during the past two centuries is San Francisco Bay, California, Deep Cove in Saanich Inlet, B. C., and several breeding localities in the Strait of Georgia, B. C.

This large homeothermic species resembles a serpent with vertical coils or humps in tandem behind the horse-like head and long neck, a pair of small elevational front flippers, and a pair of large webbed hind flippers fused to form a large fan-like tail region that provides powerful forward-swimming propulsion. Through a process of locomotory body transformation, the long slender body can be doubled up into rigid vertical humps that effectively reduce friction of the snakelike body surface with the water and enable the animal to attain recorded swimming speeds of more than 40 km/h at the surface.

Zoological reality of the species has been suggested by the original specimen-based description in a refereed scientific journal in which the type juvenile specimen is represented by 3 different close-up quality photographs (in the B. C. Provincial Archives in Victoria), in which at least three new-born relatively tiny precocial "baby" specimens have been independently held by at least three pairs of human captors during the past 40 years, and by more than 100 documented sightings, photographs, sonar images, and sketches of live animals made independently at predicted times and places, subsequent to the original description in 1995 and continuing to the present.

Sources

• Bousfield, Edward L. & Leblond Paul H. (2000). Cadborosaurus: Survivor from the Deep. Heritage House Publishing.
• Bousfield, E. L., & P. H. LeBlond, 1995, in Amphipacifica I Suppl. 1: pp. 1-25, 19 figs., 1995.
• Clark, Jerome and Coleman, Loren. (1999). Cryptozoology A-Z. Simon & Schuster.
• Jupp, Ursula. (1988, reprinted 1993). Cadboro: A Ship, A Bay, A Sea-Monster. Jay Editions.

External links

• [20th & 21st Century Dinosaurs: Caddy: The Cadboro Bay Sea Serpent]
• [Canadian Sea Serpent Officially Recognized by Science]
• [The Cadboro Bay Sea Serpent]
• [The Cadborosaurus Watch]
• [The Cryptid Zoo: Caddy]

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