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Hebrides blob

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Louise Whitts posing beside the Hebrides Blob.

The Hebrides blob was a 12 ft (3.7 m) 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." DNA analysis revealed it to be the decayed carcass of a sperm whale.[1]

References[edit]

  1. Carr, S.M., H.D. Marshall, K.A. Johnstone, L.M. Pynn & G.B. Stenson 2002. [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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