Hebrides Blob

Hebrides Blob

The Hebrides Blob was an unidentified, convert|12|ft|m|sigfig=2|abbr=on long carcass that washed ashore on Benbecula beach in the Hebrides, Scotland, in 1990. Louise Whitts, who discovered the carcass, described it as follows: "It had what appeared to be a head at one end, a curved back and seemed to be covered with eaten-away flesh or even a furry skin and was 12 feet long [and] it had all these shapes like fins along its back." Although no samples of the mass were taken, recent analysis of other globsters suggests that the Hebrides Blob was the partial remains of a decomposing whale.

References

* Carr, S.M., H.D. Marshall, K.A. Johnstone, L.M. Pynn & G.B. Stenson 2002. [http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/content/full/202/1/1 How To Tell a Sea Monster: Molecular Discrimination of Large Marine Animals of the North Atlantic.] "Biological Bulletin" 202: 1-5.


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