 Carcass that washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida in 1896. A globster, or blob, is an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shore of an ocean or other body of water. It is distinguished from a normal beached carcass by lacking bones or other recognisable structures. In the past these were often described as sea monsters, and myths and legends about such monsters may often have started with the appearance of a globster. Image File history File links St_augustine_carcass. ...
Image File history File links St_augustine_carcass. ...
Sea Monsters was a BBC television program which used computer-generated imagery to show past life in Earths seas. ...
The term globster was coined by Ivan T. Sanderson in 1962 to describe the Tasmanian carcass of 1960, which was said to have "no visible eyes, no defined head, and no apparent bone structure." Ivan Terrance Sanderson (January 30, 1911 – February 19, 1973) was a naturalist and writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...
March 9, 1962 issue of The Mercury covering the Tasmanian Globster. ...
Many globsters have initially been described as gigantic octopuses, although they later turned out to be the decayed carcases of whales or large sharks. As with the "Chilean Blob" of 2003, many are masses of whale blubber which have been released from decaying whale corpses. Others initially thought to be dead Plesiosaurs later turned out to be the decayed carcases of basking sharks. Others remain unexplained. Giant and colossal squid may also explain some globsters, particularly those which are tentatively identified as monster octopuses. Pen and wash drawing by malacologist, Pierre Denys de Montfort, 1801 from the descriptions of French sailors reportedly attacked by such a creature off the coast of Angola. ...
A Fin whale The term whale is ambiguous: it can refer to all cetaceans, to just the larger ones, or only to members of particular families within the order Cetacea. ...
Orders Carcharhiniformes Heterodontiformes Hexanchiformes Lamniformes Orectolobiformes Pristiophoriformes Squaliformes Squatiniformes Sharks (superorder Selachimorpha) are fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton[1] and a streamlined body. ...
The Chilean Blob The Chilean Blob was a 13-tonne mass of tissue discovered on a beach in Los Muermos, Chile in July 2003. ...
Families Plesiosaurs (IPA ) (Greek: plesios, near to + sauros, lizard) were large, carnivorous aquatic reptiles. ...
Binomial name Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) The Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus), also known as the Bone Shark, is the second largest fish alive, after the Whale Shark. ...
Species Architeuthis dux ?Architeuthis hartingii ?Architeuthis japonica ?Architeuthis kirkii Architeuthis martensi ?Architeuthis physeteris Architeuthis sanctipauli ?Architeuthis stockii Giant squid, once believed to be mythical creatures, are squid of the Architeuthidae family, represented by as many as eight species of the genus Architeuthis. ...
Binomial name Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Robson, 1925 The Colossal Squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), sometimes called the Antarctic or Giant Cranch Squid, is believed to be the largest squid species, and the only member of the genus Mesonychoteuthis. ...
Pen and wash drawing by malacologist, Pierre Denys de Montfort, 1801 from the descriptions of French sailors reportedly attacked by such a creature off the coast of Angola. ...
Some Globsters are supposed to be the victims of pathological skepticism, because the scientific community has refused to look at them until after they have decomposed too much to ever possibly be good enough as evidence for a new species, or has outright destroyed them, as happened with the famous "Cadborosaurus willsi" carcass, found in 1937. However, Canadian scientists did in fact perform a DNA analysis of the Newfoundland Blob which indicated that the tissue was from a sperm whale. In their resulting paper, the authors point out a number of superficial similarities between the Newfoundland Blob and other famous globsters, concluding a similar origin for those globsters is likely. This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...
Cadborosaurus willsi, nicknamed Caddy, is the name given in a formal description to a cryptid species. ...
The Newfoundland Blob The Newfoundland Blob was an unidentified mass (globster) that washed ashore near St. ...
Binomial name Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 Sperm Whale range (in blue) The Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of all toothed whales and is the largest toothed animal alive, measuring up to 18 m (60 ft) long. ...
The final scene of the 1960 film La Dolce Vita depicts a group of partygoers discovering a globster on the beach at sunrise. La Dolce Vita (1960) (translation The Sweet Life) is a film directed by Federico Fellini and usually cited as the film that signals the split between his earlier neo-realist films and his later symbolist period. ...
In the 2004 novel Der Schwarm or The Swarm by Frank Schätzing, globsters are portrayed as an intelligent alien life form, the Yrr. Frank Schätzing (born 1957 in Cologne), is a German writer, mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm (2004). ...
Famous globsters
Listed in chronological order of discovery. The carcass as it appeared after being dug out of the sand. ...
March 9, 1962 issue of The Mercury covering the Tasmanian Globster. ...
Rare photograph of the New Zealand Globster. ...
Tasmanian Globster 2 was a large unidentified carcass found washed ashore by Ben Fenton in Tasmania, in 1970. ...
Teddy Tucker with the Bermuda Blob. ...
Louise Whitts posing beside the Hebrides Blob. ...
Bermuda Blob 2 Bermuda Blob 2 was an unidentified mass (globster) found in Bermuda, in 1995. ...
Samples of the Nantucket Blob. ...
Bermuda Blob 3 Bermuda Blob 3 was an unidentified mass (globster) found in Bermuda, in January 1997. ...
The Four Mile Globster The Four Mile Globster was an unidentified mass that washed ashore in Four Mile Beach, Tasmania, in 1997. ...
The Newfoundland Blob The Newfoundland Blob was an unidentified mass (globster) that washed ashore near St. ...
The Chilean Blob The Chilean Blob was a 13-tonne mass of tissue discovered on a beach in Los Muermos, Chile in July 2003. ...
Sources - Bousfield, Edward L. & Leblond Paul H. (2000). Cadborosaurus: Survivor from the Deep. Heritage House Publishing.
- Clark, Jerome and Coleman, Loren. (1999). Cryptozoology A-Z. Simon & Schuster.
- Ellis, R. 1994. Monsters of the Sea. Robert Hale, London.
- McCalmont, Jonathan. Book Review on StrangeHorizons.com[1]
See also Pen and wash drawing by malacologist Pierre Denys de Montfort, 1801, from the descriptions of French sailors reportedly attacked by a Kraken off the coast of Angola. ...
Pen and wash drawing by malacologist, Pierre Denys de Montfort, 1801 from the descriptions of French sailors reportedly attacked by such a creature off the coast of Angola. ...
External links - Strangemag
- The Cryptid Zoo: Globsters
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