Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists

Reuters ^ | 07/02/03 | Reuters

[Pikamax]

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.

[Bluntpoint]

"Take a DNA sample."

Gather up a sterile smear and place it on a blue dress. Send to U.C. at Berkley, Dept of Biology, Attn: Professor Ken Starr.

[Bluntpoint]

"Not sure I like your tag line..."


Whats wrong with giggling frogs?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Bryozoan ?

[Gigantor]

Could it be my congressman, Jerry Nadler?

[Bluntpoint]

Nonindigenous Bryozoan Distribution Information would be helpful at this point.

[Bluntpoint]

Bryozoan Taxonomic Checklists:

Make additions below

(Hold on to your hats, because this thread is about to rock!).

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It floated down to Chile from the Lake of the Ozarks.

[Marysecretary]

Lumpy grey flesh? Is Clinton missing?

[Bluntpoint]

Lake of the Ozarks, the premier vacation spot in the Midwest offering golf, boating, fishing and Bryozoan skidoodle riding.

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But Vernon Jordan, as he stared at the lumpy, grey swellings that swathed his friend's flesh, could not imagine what grotesque disaster had befallen the former president.........

[Eric in the Ozarks]

These critters are found attached to anchor ropes, dock cables, etc around the lake. I've seen some bigger than a basketball, but none the size of a whale.
A couple years ago, a visiting friend from Iowa (who considers himself a naturalist and environmentalist,) identified one of these gray-green blobs as "catfish cum."

[Bluntpoint]

catfish cum?

Did you see the Ron Jeremy's fishing show on OLN last week?

[FrogMom]

Whats wrong with giggling frogs?

Nothing.

GIGGING them is another story.

;-)

[Bluntpoint]

Well, if they had not been giggling so loud, they would not have pissed off the guy with the gig.

[bert]

I think I read here yesterday that a Japanese deep submersable was missing and presumed lost. The reason given was the line snapped.

Since 2+2 always equals 4, I conclude the sea creature ingested the bright yellow submersable bait and died.

[ASA Vet]

Here's another washed up strange critter

Click here for story.

[Bluntpoint]

Give the creature a Fleets Enema and then reap the salvage value of the sub.

[Slyfox]

The last NOW convention.

[Mad Dawgg]

"...I conclude the sea creature ingested the bright yellow submersable bait and died.

In the town where I was born lived a man who sailed to sea.
And he told us of his life in the land of submarines...

[theFIRMbss]

>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

On the other hand,
chili scientists know just
what to do with it...