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Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists
Wednesday, July 2, 2003 Posted: 2:49 AM EDT (0649 GMT)
Photographs showed a round leathery substance like a mammoth jelly fish, about as long as a school bus.
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) -- Chilean scientists were baffled on Tuesday by a huge, gelatinous sea creature found washed up on the southern Pacific coast and were seeking international help identifying the mystery specimen.
The dead creature was mistaken for a beached whale when first reported about a week ago, but experts who went to see it said the 40-foot-long (12-meter) mass of decomposing lumpy grey flesh apparently was an invertebrate.
Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists
Wednesday, July 2, 2003 Posted: 2:49 AM EDT (0649 GMT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) -- Chilean scientists were baffled on Tuesday by a huge, gelatinous sea creature found washed up on the southern Pacific coast and were seeking international help identifying the mystery specimen.
The dead creature was mistaken for a beached whale when first reported about a week ago, but experts who went to see it said the 40-foot-long (12-meter) mass of decomposing lumpy grey flesh apparently was an invertebrate.