Cadborosaurus

Off Cadboro Bay near Victoria, British Columbia, mariners have long reported a long-necked, humped sea serpent nicknamed "Caddy," with reports compiled seriously by naturalists after a flurry of 1933 newspaper sightings gave the creature its scientific-sounding name, coined by writer Archie Wills from "Cadboro" and the Greek suffix for lizard. Described as having a horse- or camel-like head, large eyes, and a serpentine body up to 40 feet long undulating vertically through the water, Cadborosaurus sightings span the entire Pacific coast from California to Alaska, with several supposed carcasses recovered by fishermen over the decades, most famously the 1937 whale-stomach specimen examined at the Naden Harbour whaling station. A Victoria fisherman told the Daily Colonist in 1933: "It had a head like a horse and moved through the water like a snake, faster than any boat could follow." Zoologist Paul LeBlond spent decades cataloguing hundreds of sightings, arguing for an undiscovered marine reptile or elongated pinniped. Marine biologists more often attribute sightings to elongated groups of swimming sea lions, oarfish, or giant kelp mats, though the Naden Harbour carcass remains genuinely difficult to conclusively identify from surviving photographs alone.