Deep Sea Monster Baffles Scientists

sbszine writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has a report of a bizarre sea creature that has washed up on the coast of Chile. The creature is grey, lumpy, and the size of a school bus. Scientists have ruled out the possibility that it may be a whale -- the creature is an invertebrate, and perhaps even a new species."

Comments

Fine journalism

[GuyMannDude]

Photographs showed a round leathery substance like a mammoth jelly fish, about as long as a school bus.

So show us the above mentioned photographs already! What the fuck kind of tease is this?

GMD

Re:Amazing

[geoswan]

Squids have a hard beak inside, just like octopi. If the carcass is complete, figuring out if it is a squid should be easy, no matter how decomposed it is...

Re:Amazing

[Smidge204]

(Presumably) being a sea creature, wouldn't bouyancy make supporting a large body mass something of a non-issue? A big bag of muscle can get around pretty good in a basically 0-gravity environment. (Giant squid!)

Not to say that it's not an interesting find. :P but like most everyone else, I'd like some pics.
=Smidge=

CTHULU

[tqft]

CTHULU
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Cthulu
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not many

[Councilor Hart]

I wonder how many new species we will see before and after the earth slides into an ice age?

I don't think you, me or we are going to see many new species before or after.
What others will see are your, mine and our dead corpses.
And they will see it long before the end of any ice age.

Re:parent is a troll

[barakn]

Judging from the replies to grandparent and to an anonymous coward who linked to the same CNN story, there originally were photos which were removed sometime between 5:19 AM and 7:38 AM, and then put back in before 11:11 AM. Those of us who looked during that period were justifiably upset, but we should have flamed CNN, not the posters.