As Rui predicted, the fifteenth floor was soon discovered by the exploration team that happened upon it later than they did. The discovery eventually leaked to the public, causing an uproar. The thought of the fifteenth floor containing a single enormous monster was terrifying to most people.
Yet there was also a lot of morbid curiosity into the matter. The fact that it was headless and that fact that its outer scales, strongly suspected to be made out of esoteric substances, were stripped from the body indicated human intervention.
However, there was certainly some controversy over the matter.