2-year-old News of an Unidentified Creature

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Giant blob baffles marine scientists


The 12-metre-wide remains of a sea creature found by the Chilean navy are puzzling marine scientists, who think it may be a new species.



The specimen was at first taken for a beached whale when it was washed up a week ago but experts who have seen it say it appears not to have a backbone.

"We'd never before seen such a strange specimen.
"We don't know if it might be a giant squid that is missing some of its parts or maybe it's a new species," Elsa Cabrera, a marine biologist and director of the Centre for Cetacean Conservation in Santiago, told Reuters news agency.
The mass is too big to be a whale skin and does not have the right texture or smell, she said.
Ms Cabrera said she was contacting Chilean and international organisations in the hope that they could help work out what the find was. The Chilean navy first saw the remains along with another large mass which turned out to be a dead humpback whale. Ms Cabrera will be interviewed on BBC Five Live's Up All Night programme at 0125 BST on Thursday.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3039102.stm (The link has a pic)

Found this after all of a coincidence.. Anyone who heard of it and maybe has further information about it ?

Chile has a navy?

What?

Jellyfish maybe?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...seadevils.html

Whale skin?

Wow that is very interesting. Looks squid-like.

*the report seems to rule out that it could be whale skin.
ofcourse no evidence of tentacles doesen't look good for it being a squid either.

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Originally Posted by strike for the south

Chile has a navy?

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Oh come SFTS on , of course they have a navy. Their country is probably the most stable out of all of South America and they are coastal.

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Originally Posted by discovery1

What?

Jellyfish maybe?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...seadevils.html

Whale skin?

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Sperm whale skin to be exact. Read about it here. Ms Cabrera was apparently wrong. :shrug:

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Originally Posted by Xiahou

Sperm whale skin to be exact. Read about it here. Ms Cabrera was apparently wrong. :shrug:

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:bow:

Backroom - Where dark minds enlighten with nuclear flashlights ! A-ye ! :charge:

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ahh, I was hoping it was a sea monster! :(

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Originally Posted by ghost908

Oh come SFTS on , of course they have a navy. Their country is probably the most stable out of all of South America and they are coastal.

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My humor is lost...agian:no: I dont know why I bother with yall:juggle2:

Your humour is bad that's why it's ignored.

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Originally Posted by lars573

Your humour is bad that's why it's ignored.

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SFTS is GMoAtT.. It will take time you'll get it.

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Originally Posted by strike for the south

My humor is lost...agian:no: I dont know why I bother with yall:juggle2:

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Pfft...us Yankees ~;p

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Originally Posted by discovery1

What?

Jellyfish maybe?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...seadevils.html

Whale skin?

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I would think it could be either 1) whale skin, 2) giant squid, jellyfish organism

I'd most likely say it's whale skin though...

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Originally Posted by lars573

Your humour is bad that's why it's ignored.

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Excuse the double post, but...

Pwnt!

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Originally Posted by Alexanderofmacedon

Excuse the double post, but...

Pwnt!

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You guys will never understand SFTS.

A sarcasm detector helps alot in the quest of eternal happiness.

And you guys don't got spit on him.. becuase he is the greatest man of all times.

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Originally Posted by faisal

You guys will never understand SFTS.

A sarcasm detector helps alot in the quest of eternal happiness.

And you guys don't got spit on him.. becuase he is the greatest man of all times.

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From what you just posted, and you're sig, I'd say you're his mom or dad...

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or mabey his alter ego...hmm, is SFTS using 2 names to agree with himself and so make him look good.

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Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine

SFTS is GMoAtT.. It will take time you'll get it.

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got that right :wall:



I still don't even know where your going with that post

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is SFTS using 2 names to agree with himself and so make him look good.

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Negatory, SFTS isn't using any fake accounts, especially one that joined these boards 3 years earlier ~;p

Also, you guys need to lighten up when SFTS posts, i do believe he meant it in jest.

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Originally Posted by faisal

You guys will never understand SFTS.

A sarcasm detector helps alot in the quest of eternal happiness.

And you guys don't got spit on him.. becuase he is the greatest man of all times.

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GMoAtT cannot be Greatest Man Of All Times, there's a "T" missing. However, it could be Generally Meaningless Orator And Top Todger.

GMoAtT : Greatest Man Of All The Time

...Now, "unidentified" stands for the thread itself..

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Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine

GMoAtT : Greatest Man Of All The Time

...Now, "unidentified" stands for the thread itself..

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I prefer mine :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Ja'chyra

I prefer mine :laugh4:

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No way, ol' man.. If it would be that way, then the thread would get "intolerably unidentified" that is too much for an outdated topic ~D

On the Discovery Times channel a few weeks ago the blob that is being discussed in this thread turned out to be the rotted corpse of a whale. They apparently kept a sample of it for later DNA testing. Although this discovery turned out to be a whale, the ocean is very vast and very unexplored. The possibility of the discovery of a very large life form yet documented in modern times is very possible. Just until recently no one had ever seen a giant squid live in its habitat. There are things out there that are uncomprehendable to us. But slowly but surely they will be discovered much to the amazement of science but unfortunately, in my opinion, to the detriment of these newly found species.:no:

true, we humans are to narrow minded when it comes to other life forms (like SFTS:2thumbsup: ) but that does'nt mean we are detrimenting there species if we may mistake them for a few years, the giant squid would'nt be nearly so popular an issue if it had not had years of "mysterious creature of the murky depths" publicity for many years, it may take time to accept but we do not demean.

These things are what is commonly known in crypto-zooligical terms as "Globsters" and are often decomposed carcass of marine life, some shape into what looks like monsters with long necks but most are usually whales but most often Basking sharks.

Here is a few examples:

http://www.americanmonsters.com/gall...20carolina.jpg

http://www.pangeainstitute.us/photog...b_gobster2.jpg

http://www.research.usf.edu/absolute...ermudaBlob.jpg

http://www.lisalamb.com/Photos/sea%20monster.jpg

One of the famest and early known globsters, but probabaly a dead Giant Octopus washed up in Florida in 1898:

http://www.geocities.com/capedreveng...ugustine_2.jpg

This following photo is very rare showing more of the carcass:

http://www.geocities.com/capedrevenger/clarke2.jpg

This photo shows the signs of Octo looks:

http://www.geocities.com/capedreveng...ugustine_2.jpg



The globster gallery in strange Mag is also good:

http://www.strangemag.com/seaserpgallery.html

Also a very good read on the subject:

http://www.strangemag.com/globsters1.html

They could be whales, or sharks but maybe they could be an unknown animal, the state of some of the decompossing matter on the beaches can't really be identified, so there is a chance that it be something unknown to science.

The last the blobsters and one that marine biologists have never identified, found off Egyptian coast in 1950:

http://theshadowlands.net/carcass5.jpg

This is my favourite. An alledged Plesiosaur carcass discovered by a Japanese fishing trawler 20 years ago. It was cast overboard because of the god-awful smell. Unfortunately, a sample was never taken.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/zm1a.jpg

That one is a classic.

I like it when whales beach themselves, then get blown up with dynamite by local authorities.

That's just cool no matter who you are.

Cool... unless you live nearby and they use too much dynamite...

'Honey, stop playing TW and clear out the gutters of sloppy rotten whale carcass now!'

Yeah, that was found by a japanese trawler in 1977 and was thrown back into the ocean! God i bet some scientists and marine biologists would like to have looked at it first.:oops:

speaking of blowing up whales

http://www.planetvids.com/html/Blowing-Up-a-Whale.html

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Originally Posted by Divinus Arma

I like it when whales beach themselves, then get blown up with dynamite by local authorities.

That's just cool no matter who you are.

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Yeah, koool :no:

I hope your not allowed any pets

The animals are of course dead when blown up and it seems a pretty good solution to make the huge corpse small enough for nature to take care off. Although that video does make you think twice before doing so. And don't they "explode" on their own because of the gases in their bodies?

This case has made me doubt the earlier cases of "globsters" thought to be remains of undiscovered sea creatures. Those cases predate DNA testing while the case of two years ago shows that even informed people can fail to correctly identify whale remains. To my untutored eye, none of the photos in this thread look very different from what we now know was whale blubber. A giant octopus or plesiosaur would be cool, but I ain't holding my breath.

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Originally Posted by Wakizashi

speaking of blowing up whales

http://www.planetvids.com/html/Blowing-Up-a-Whale.html

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Oh, man... when I heard twenty cases of dynamite.. :oops: :help: :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Divinus Arma

I like it when whales beach themselves, then get blown up with dynamite by local authorities.

That's just cool no matter who you are.

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Oh no.