They could be found sticking half-out of icebergs like this mystery beast!

http://www.chroniclejournal.com/CP_stories.php?id=47347

Any guesses as to species? I'm hoping it's a mammoth

I'm guessing it is some type of marine mammal since the ribs are so short (they don't curve around toward the ventral side of the animal).

It has a very slight resemblance to the radula of a gigantic ammonoid... but is probably vertebrate -or- just dumb old bones. 8-)

I'm voting marine mammal...

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Most likely some poor seal which fell into a crevasse

It's pretty big for a seal though, the bones are suposed to be sticking out 2.4m above the waterline and yet the head is underwater. Maybe a walrus?

It's pretty big for a seal though, the bones are suposed to be sticking out 2.4m above the waterline and yet the head is underwater. Maybe a walrus?

The head is gone, often when a marine mammal dies, the head detaches from the rest of the body because it is so heavy. I took the 2.4 meters to mean that 2.4 meters was the length of the part of the skeleton that is sticking out of the ice. Either way, 8 feet or so is a pretty big animal.