The mysterious octopus was already dead when Ron Newberry found it at Ebey’s Landing on Whidbey Island, Washington.
(Image: © Ron Newberry/Whidbey Camano Land Trust)
Posted on 09/26/2020 3:05:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A mysterious, many-armed sea creature — initially described as a large "red glob" — lying on a rocky shore in Washington has drawn in cephalopod experts across the country, each wondering what this gelatinous animal is.
The 3.5-foot-long (1 meter) beast's identity was at first elusive; was it the shallow-water East Pacific red octopus (Octopus rubescens)? Or perhaps it was a very lost deep-sea vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) or a deep-sea dumbo octopus (Grimpoteuthis)?
The likely answers (no, no and no) led scientists to yet another species: the seven-armed octopus (Haliphron atlanticus), a deep-water creature that is rarely seen as far north as Washington, according to the Whidbey News-Times.
Ron Newberry, a resident of Whidbey Island, north of Seattle in Puget Sound, discovered the weird creature before going salmon fishing the morning of Aug. 29. The tide was low, exposing algae-covered rocks. "And there it was, this red glob of something with what appeared to be tentacles," Newberry told Live Science in an email. The red beast was dead, he realized. But Newberry still snapped a few photos and uploaded them to the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Whidbey Camano Land Trust, a nonprofit nature conservation organization, where Newberry serves as communications manager. Later, the tide came in and carried the animal's body back into Puget Sound.
The mysterious octopus was already dead when Ron Newberry found it at Ebey’s Landing on Whidbey Island, Washington.
(Image: © Ron Newberry/Whidbey Camano Land Trust)
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Beware of the Glob!
That’s not the Glob, that’s Joe Biden’s brain!
Septopus?
baby Cthulhu???
Lol!
Looks like a Chinese virus. A big one.
Beat me to it. LOL
Fhthagn!
It fell from a Nadler’s pant leg.
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I saw that... but more like a slither/crawl/slip out of his pant leg. ;-)
It was just hanging over the plate, and I hit it out of the park.
A septopus?
Sounds like it's been disarmed, but not totally.
Another chunk of Inslee’s slimy brain fell out while he was on the ferry. Been happening to him for years, making him the babbling idiot he is now.
Hail!
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