-=> Quoting MATTHEW SCRUGGS to MICHAEL HOLT <=-
 MH> "Nothing looked familiar?"
 MS> You got it. The only similarities I observed were external ones.
The body shape, you mean?
 MS> The stuff on the inside, I don't know what that was. I'm half with Ivy
 MS> here which butcher shop were they purchased at? But I saw nothing I
 MS> could say with any honesty that would have come from there.
So none of it looked like human or dolphin innards? 
Did any of it look like the insides of, say, a squid or an oyster or a
tarantula?  We may be looking for the wrong sort of similarity.
What happens if the creature breathes through its skin?  Gas transfer would
occur through a whole-body membrane which would be, to us, quite delicate
and in desperate need of a covering (hence the unmarked 'suit').  That
leaves the body cavity for other organs.  Might the intestine have evolved
to be much as a liver, structureally, if nourishment is taken in less
solid and more digestible form?  Why does the brain have to be in the head,
if there's space elsewhere?  The brain in the skull might be more a signal
processor for sensory inputs, but the conscious mind is located in the
abdomen.   
 MS> The only thing familar too me was the cerebellum under whatever that
 MS> was that was passed off (or used!) as a cerebrum. That was bizzare!
What wa familiar about it?  What was bizarre?
 MS> Still deeply suspicious yet intrigued by the whole thing after 3
 MS> years.
My gut feeling is that it was a hoax.  But I can't say why.
Mike
... There is always a law against doing anything interesting.
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