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posted by on Thursday May 18 2017, @03:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the either-way,-it-smells-divine dept.

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.

CBS News

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.

HuffPost

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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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Nerdfest on Thursday May 18 2017, @04:43PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday May 18 2017, @04:43PM (#511729)

    No, it was too funny for it to be her.

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