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Giant platypus in Alaska

From: http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ak-platypus/

Jun 23, 2008

Several years ago Mike F., a successful Ketchikan businessman, contractor and retired fisherman asked me…whether I had ever studied or read anything about platypuses in North America, specifically whether I knew of any prehistoric giant forms….

[Later he told me] that as a young man forty or so years ago he had stood on shore near Mountain Point south of Ketchikan and spent a minute watching an animal in the water at very close range that simply resembled a giant platypus. He described the creature as dark with a bill and feet like a platypus only the overall size was six feet or possibly greater. He gave no mention of the tail if there was one. The sighting was in shallow water on a rocky shoreline and the creature was close to the surface….

The man is an experienced commercial fisherman and stated categorically that it was not a known species of seal.

Ocean temp here doesn’t vary much from 50 degrees.