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A fact from St. Augustine Monster appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 October 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that "Octopus giganteus" (pictured) is the pseudoscientific name given to a large carcass, postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, that washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida in 1896?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/October.

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Very nice scholarly page, but yeah OK I think it could be more usefully entitled "St Augustine Carcass" or similar. Better than a merge. Tullimonstrum 16:47, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bites your head off[edit]

If it was an octopus or a squid, the giant bird-beak would identify it. For such a huge invertebrae, the beak should be one meter (yard) large! No beak, no monster, so it was most possibly a rotten whale. 195.70.48.242 08:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There were initial reports of a "mouth". I will add a quote as I work through the article. Mgiganteus1 11:19, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Paranormal??[edit]

Why is this catagorized as paranormal? This is not pseudoscience like astrology or creationism. This is a carcass that washed up on the beach, nothing "paranormal" about it. L0b0t 12:39, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmmm, I'd agree with you. Removed it for now. Someone should start WikiProject:Cryptozoology. Mgiganteus1 12:59, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For the moment, Cryptozoology is covered by WikiProject Paranormal. --InShaneee 18:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Paranormal is a very broad term which refers to a variety of physical and psychical phenomenon, including cryptozoology. It's not really a synonym for supernatural. A paranormal topic is one which cannot be explained by science at the present but may be explained in the future. Zagalejo 02:40, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox[edit]

Should the St. Augustine Monster have an animal infobox. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zachbarbo (talk • contribs) 18:49, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Octopi in See also[edit]

Mgiganteus1, I removed Giant octopus, Seven-arm octopus and Lusca from the See also section in 2018 because I thought they were unrelated to what turned out to be a decomposed whale carcass. Although it was initially thought to be an octopus, these articles don't have any information that's relevant to the St. Augustine "Monster". –dlthewave ☎ 16:39, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dlthewave, interest in this carcass stems almost entirely from the fact that it was believed by many, for more than a century, to be the remains of a gigantic octopus. It think it makes sense to direct readers to the actual largest known octopus species (seven-arm octopus and Enteroctopus). As for the folkloric Lusca, it is a supposed giant octopus that has often been linked to the St. Augustine Monster due to geographic proximity (though this is not discussed in the article at present). mgiganteus1 (talk) 17:03, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]