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Trunko: The White-Furred Monster of Margate Beach

November 10, 2026 by Tommy Hayes
The beach and surf at Margate, KwaZulu-Natal, seen from a grassy headland — the shore where the Trunko carcass washed up in 1924

About 6 min readOn 25 October 1924, beachgoers at Margate in South Africa watched two killer whales battle a huge white-furred creature with an elephant’s trunk. The carcass lay on the beach for ten days. No scientist ever examined it — and the photographs took eighty-six years to surface.

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