2-year-old News of an Unidentified Creature

[LeftEyeNine]

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.

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 ?

[Strike For The South]

Chile has a navy?

[discovery1]

What?

Jellyfish maybe?

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

Whale skin?

[Sartaq]

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.

[Ice]

Chile has a navy?

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.

[Xiahou]

What?

Jellyfish maybe?

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

Whale skin?

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

[LeftEyeNine]

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

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

[Sartaq]

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

[Strike For The South]

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.

My humor is lost...agian I dont know why I bother with yall

[lars573]

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

[LeftEyeNine]

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

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

[Reenk Roink]

My humor is lost...agian I dont know why I bother with yall

Pfft...us Yankees

[Alexanderofmacedon]

What?

Jellyfish maybe?

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

Whale skin?

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...

[Alexanderofmacedon]

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

Excuse the double post, but...

Pwnt!

[Leet Eriksson]

Excuse the double post, but...

Pwnt!

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.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

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.

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

[master of the puppets]

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

[Lanemerkel1]

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

got that right



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

[Leet Eriksson]

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

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

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

[Ja'chyra]

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.

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

[LeftEyeNine]

GMoAtT : Greatest Man Of All The Time

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

[Ja'chyra]

GMoAtT : Greatest Man Of All The Time

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

I prefer mine

[LeftEyeNine]

I prefer mine

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

[Devastatin Dave]

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.

[master of the puppets]

true, we humans are to narrow minded when it comes to other life forms (like SFTS ) 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.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

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:









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



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



This photo shows the signs of Octo looks:





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 Blind King of Bohemia]

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

[Roark]

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.

[Sartaq]

That one is a classic.

[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.