The people of Newfoundland post all kinds of photos online of the captivating things they find washed up along the island’s 17,000 kilometres of coastline. Most of the time it’s run-of-the-mill flotsam from the Atlantic. Random boat parts. A giant fish head. Sea glass. Lots of sea glass.
Then the white blobs showed up – a mystery that has been baffling government scientists for weeks.
Philip Grace was the first to post a photograph of the lumpy gelatinous goop (sorry, Gwyneth) scattered over the pebbly beach in Ship Harbour, a community in southern Newfoundland.
Look. Sometimes things get a little frisky at SquidCon. Don’t judge.
The flying squid was there. First hand experience
I never miss a SquidCon.
blooping intensifies
Going with whale blubber on this one
Or ambergris. Whale puke. They use it to make perfumes. Seriously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris
This is what it looks like before it’s dried out:
I would have expected that to be a prime suspect and eliminated or confirmed quickly…
You’re probably right, but easily explainable “unexplained” things wash up on the shore so often and get pushed that way by the press, that I wouldn’t be shocked if it was ambergris.
https://tidelinesblog.com/2018/10/10/mystery-object-on-the-beach-update/ <-- “Mystery object” that’s probably just a buoy.
https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-hairy-sea-monster-blob-beach-oregon-dead-whale-1752642 <-- “Mystery object” that’s just a decomposing whale.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/giant-mystery-object-found-beach-33813093 <-- “Mystery fossil” is whale’s penis.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66220494 <-- “Mystery object” is part of a rocket.
It even happens with “blobs.”
https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/texas-sea-creature-beach-18670010.php <-- “Mystery blob” is dead sea nettle.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/north-carolina-coast-mysterious-mass-identified-what-is-the-blob <-- “Mysterious blob” is my squid babies, so leave it alone.
According to the article scientists already collected samples and ruled out some theories. They still don’t know what it is. So not something easily explainable.
It’s worth a ton of money so yes!
Precious hamburgers?
How does everyone read articles from sites with pay walls or require creating accounts? Is it work around or does this many people have publication subscriptions?
On my phone. If you hit reader mode while the page is loading, usually you can read it. And if not, shortcut to archive.is
Didn’t get walled for me. I think they give you a number of free articles each week before triggering the paywall. I grab the url and go to archive.is or another archiver when it happens.
It looks like proofed bread dough.
