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In case you've missed it, South Florida is host to its very own strange and mysterious sea creature. Our aquatic enigma has been dubbed (and somewhat insensitively, I might add) "muck monster." No word yet on whether PETA will intervene and demand a more ethical moniker than muck monster. To their defense, PETA has been otherwise engaged with their recent Florida campaign urging overweight human "whales" to shed their blubber.
Lose the Blubber, Go Vegetarian
Meanwhile, the other, non-human type monster said to be lurking in South Florida waters has been documented in reports by TV and newspaper websites, blogs, and even History Channel's MonsterQuest.
If the description of the creature's "trident-shaped tail and strange elongated snout" were not already bizarre enough-- scientific speculation as to the conditions causing its presence takes this story to whole new level of perplexing.
Is it possible that man-made global warming has in some way contributed to the misplacement of misunderstood muck monsters?
According to the Palm Beach Post, FAU oceanography Professor, Ed Petuch, when discussing the South Florida muck monster on History Channel's MonsterQuest, concluded the episode with the following theories:
"The Singer Island sea monster could be a wayward arctic seal - extremely rare for these parts but not unheard of. If the Singer Island sea monster is a hooded or bearded seal, it points to the possible displacement of such animals by global warming or overfishing. "Nature is never constant, by law," Petuch said. "The ice is melting, the surface waters are becoming more fresh water, and it's driving them out of their normal ranges."
Here is MonsterQuest’s video clip of the South Florida "muck monster".
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