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A monstrously huge creature that washed ashore on a remote Indonesian beach, oozing a mysterious red fluid, is probably a baleen whale in an advanced state of decomposition, experts said.
The Jakarta Globe calls the massive, rotting body a giant squid, and reports that a resident of Seram Island discovered the 49-foot dead creature on Tuesday.
But three marine experts told HuffPost that the animal actually appears to be some sort of baleen whale.
Additional coverage: Jakarta Globe (earlier story), Tech Times, RT (sponsored by Russian government), Jakarta Globe, Voice of America (U.S. government), USA Today, Mashable, news.com.au (News Corp), The Washington Post
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Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale
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(Score: 2) by julian on Thursday May 18 2017, @03:31PM (5 children)
Fascinating. Who would have guessed that the most likely and mundane hypothesis would turn out to be true?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 18 2017, @05:53PM (1 child)
But, why did the whale die? Was it forced to surface too quickly by Navy sonar blasts, got the bends and died? Was it infected by prototype bio-weapons? Did Aliens attempt to recontact the whales and fail with their brain-link?
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 18 2017, @06:10PM
The restaurant didn't have a big enough doggie bag, after Godzilla got full.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday May 19 2017, @07:57AM (1 child)
Earlier reports that the dead giant squidlike creature was Cthulhu, washed up out of his house in R'lyeh, have been disconfirmed.
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Friday May 19 2017, @09:06AM
kn'a y- 'bthnk li'hee n'gha
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 19 2017, @12:52PM
Hell, anyone who's seen a humpback or similar whale skeleton at a museum should have been able to guess this after seeing the photos of the head of the carcass, pretty obviously a baleen whale skull and mandible.