Any takers to guess what this Blob really is?
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In computer lingo. Blob is known as Binary Large object. I'm not sure about this one. It looks like a huge jelly fish..
it maybe a giant squid or maybe even whale blubber
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From the looks of it, it looks like a large octopus...
Octopi don't get so big, might be a squid. But then, this is all regurgitation the article. I'd wait for the results.
Maybe this one is 
Nah, unlikely. Gaint squids, while uproven for quite some time, were still encountered by sailers and the such. It wasn’t until one washed up on Australian beaches, that sceintists started serious study into them. There have been no sightings of giant octopi. That’d be an interesting food chain, though:
Blue Whale gets eaten by a giant squid, adn the giant squid gets eaten by the giant octopus. 
But, then, who knows. The truth is out there…
phlegm from a blue whale
It is fascinating to discover new forms of life and the ocean is one that is so vast and has eluded mans touch for centuries. The chance to see more of God's creation is an honor we all take too litely. But then that which we have been blessed to be in charge of already we seem to blunder away with our disdain for anything that doesn't provide wealth or entertainment. Just goes to prove how little of our God given intellect we use, considering we are the most complex entity on earth!
wow. Nice reply Khekasha :k:
Chilean blob could be octopus, BBC, 3 July 2003
The 12-metre (40 foot) wide remains of a sea creature found in Chile could be those of a giant octopus, the first washed up on land for over a century.
The 13-ton specimen was at first taken for a beached whale when it came ashore a week ago, but experts who have seen it say it appears not to have a backbone.
“Apparently, it is a gigantic octopus or squid but that’s just our initial idea, nothing definite,” said Elsa Cabrera, a marine biologist and director of the Centre for Cetacean Conservation in the capital, Santiago.
“It has only one tentacle left. It could be a new species or the remains of a whale.”
Ms Cabrera said samples from the creature’s remains will be sent to France for analysis by specialist Michel Raynal, and to a university laboratory in southern Florida on Monday.
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^ whoa.
Imagine seeing that underwater, while you are swimming in the ocean. That would look so awesome.
So many diverse forms of life in the oceans that we haven't begun to understand...and prolly never will.
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^ whoa.
Imagine seeing that underwater, while you are swimming in the ocean. That would look so awesome.
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hahaa..the way you have said is just so funny..like a lil kid standing in front of a glass tank and looking at the monster.. :D
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hahahha… 
yeah maybe it does 
Was just trying to get away from my usual technical/boring way of writing
Turned out to be a sperm whale.
huh?!
A whale?!..
From which angle does tht look like a whale?!?
This is the stupidest news article i've seen. In one caption it says octupus, in another - squid, and in the last sperm whale! Make up your mind!
Chilean Experts Say Beached ‘Blob’ a Sperm Whale
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SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Chilean scientists said on Friday their study of a huge blob of flesh found on a Pacific beach about three weeks ago concluded it was the carcass of a sperm whale, ending speculation of a giant octopus.
Scientists have been baffled by the 40-foot-long mass of gelatinous tissue found on a remote beach in southern Chile, with initial hunches ranging from whale blubber to a disputed species of giant octopus.
Researchers at the Museum of Natural History in Santiago were the first to reach a conclusion after analyzing samples of the decaying specimen and finding glands of a sperm whale.
“It has not been necessary to do DNA analysis in order to obtain identification, it was enough to find the dermal glands that belong only to this group,” the scientists Sergio Letelier and Jose Yanez said in a statement.
The sperm whale, made famous by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, is the largest of the toothed whales and dives deeper than any other whale. The males measure up to 65 feet in length and weigh about 50 tons.
When a sperm whale dies at sea, it rots until it becomes a “skeleton suspended in a semi-liquid mass within a bag of skin and blubber,” the scientists said. Eventually, the skin tears and the bones sinks while the skin and blubber float.
“This washes up and has the appearance of an octopus because the spermaceti organ keeps its bulky shape,” they added.
The spermaceti is a large bulbous organ that forms a sort of forehead and contains a milky wax which early whalers likened to sperm fluid.
WHOA!!!
I'm sure if this happenned on our desi shores, people would interpret it as a supernatural heavenly sign!