It was Luxton that first spotted the large fish or was it a mammal? Luxton describes as being longer than a sealing ship (about 70 feet) and the head stood high in the water, certainly higher than the waves at the time. It did not swim like a whale or dolphin but moved with ease through the water. It's head sat upon a very long neck and it was dark grey in color. Norman awoke Voss to find out what manner of creature it was but Voss was equally mystified. They spoke little of it and upon further research they found no reports of such a creature. Luxton later found a newspaper article on this same type creature that would wash up later on a California beach. The people who discovered it took pictures and contacted the Smithsonian to see if they would come and retrieve this strange creature which was now starting to rot on the beach. The Smithsonian were interested but showed no hurry to clean up the corpse. It produced quite a stench so the community then advised the museum they were going to simply push it back out to sea as the stench was too awful to leave it as it was. The newspaper pictures clearly show an animal with a head much like a horse but jaws more like a crocodile with a blowhole on top like a whale or dolphin. The body of the creature looks more like a giant eel with neither fins nor tail. This is why Luxton hesitated to say if it was fish or mammal as it was a cross between a dolphin and an eel.