world's largest jellyfish? boneless whale? SQUID?

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/07/02/chile.science.reut/index.html

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.

 

[minxnim]

whatever it is, i love it.

 

[xfer]

giant trash bag that fell off a garbage barge?

 

[minxnim]

i mean, if it was a squid it'd have a horny beak! i wonder what it is....
this reminds me of a dream i had last night. weird!

 

[xfer]

merman flan? creature from the end of Watchmen?

 

[minxnim]

haven't seen it.
i would say, i mean... look at the color. are there jellyfish that are that texture and color? maybe it's just some totally unknown weird species! or a SPACE SEA MONKEY

 

[xfer]

maybe it's like an owl pellet, but from a megalodon type thing! and cutting it open will reveal its dinner?

 

[minxnim]

a giant space mouse inside it!

 

[xfer]

an experiment that accidentally fell out of a flying saucer! or maybe one of the BEINGS PILOTING the flying saucer!

 

[minxnim]

that'd be a huge flying saucer and it'd have to have jiggle room because that thing is wicked jiggly.

 

[xfer]

"We've determined that this mysterious beast is WASP in origins after extracting several gigantic marshmallows and orange segments from deep within its corpse."

 

[minxnim]

(xfer that was your 1:100 funny)

 

[xfer]

give me Reputation!

this board is pretty WASP-free, isn't it?

 

[FuSoYa]

omg omg omg

Again I pose the question: Why the hell don't I ever find any beached monsters?

 

[minxnim]

how do i give you reputation ? i will for this post. it's a good post xfer.

 

[FuSoYa]

The Chilean Navy first spotted the mystery specimen along with another large mass, but the other dead animal turned out to be a dead humpback whale.

Whoa! OK so what was the undersea drama that was taking place?? The two huge enormous sea creatures died together somehow? What killed them?? Something.. BIGGER??

OMG!

 

[FuSoYa]

Also why the hell is that photograph a picture of the damn crowd?? Who cares about the crowd? There should be more creature in that pic and less crowd!!
WTF!

 

[avi]

the crowd is good for a size reference

 

[FuSoYa]

oh good point.

 

[minxnim]

yea i was searching for a more full sized pic but couldnt find one. i mean, wtb? i wanna see this thing in full glory.