{"id":381077,"date":"2025-08-28T22:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381077\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:38:14","slug":"large-unidentified-creatures-reported-off-mexican-coast-after-long-wait-the-mysterious-animals-are-finally-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381077\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Large, unidentified creatures&#8221; reported off Mexican coast. After long wait, the mysterious animals are finally identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When wildlife watchers off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, heard of \u201clarge, unidentified creatures\u201d seven miles away, they were intrigued. They assumed the animals would be gone before they arrived but decided to speed over to their last known location just in case they were still there.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, they couldn\u2019t see a thing but they didn\u2019t give up right away. \u201cWe decided to wait, hoping the animals might come to us,\u201d says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nik_oceanlife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Niklas Manger<\/a>, operations manager at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/apexoceandivers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apex Ocean Divers<\/a>, who shared the video on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DKKhajUJkpF\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They spent nearly an hour waiting before they were rewarded for their patience. They put up a drone and were astounded to see 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/marine-animals\/beaked-whales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baird&#8217;s beaked whales<\/a>\u00a0(Berardius bairdii) resting at the surface.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"\" poster=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/08\/Bairds-beaked-whales.png\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/08\/Bairds-beaked-whales-.mp4\"\/>After waiting nearly an hour, the wildlife watchers spotted 12 Baird\u2019s\u00a0beaked whales on the surface of the water. Credit: Niklas Manger<br \/>\n<video controls=\"\" poster=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/08\/Bairds-beaked-whales-2.png\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/08\/Bairds-beaked-whales-1.mp4\"\/>Baird\u2019s beaked whales are very rarely seen by humans. Credit: Niklas Manger<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo our amazement, they became curious about our boat and passed by within close range before slipping back into the dark blue depths,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was one of the rarest encounters of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although they are the\u00a0largest\u00a0of all the beaked whales, the chance of seeing this species is incredibly slim. These animals can dive around 1,000 metres and spend lots of time in deep waters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The chances of finding these animals are close to zero, and our group was exceptionally lucky to witness it,\u201d says Manger. \u201cEncounters like this offer a rare window into the secretive lives of one of the ocean\u2019s most mysterious\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/marine-animals\/how-did-whales-get-big\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whales<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"\" poster=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/08\/Bairds-beaked-whales-1.png\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/08\/Bairds-beaked-whales-2.mp4\"\/>Baird\u2019s beaked whales can dive up to 1,000 metres deep. Credit: Niklas Manger<br \/>\n<video controls=\"\" poster=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/08\/Bairds-beaked-whales-3.png\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/08\/Bairds-beaked-whales.mp4\"\/>The whales dive deep into the ocean to hunt squid and deep-sea fish. Credit: Niklas Manger<\/p>\n<p>Image and video credit: Niklas Manger (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nik_oceanlife\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nik_oceanlife<\/a>), Apex Ocean Divers<\/p>\n<p><strong>More amazing wildlife stories from around the world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When wildlife watchers off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, heard of \u201clarge, unidentified creatures\u201d seven miles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-381077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115108793866046120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}