Giant octopus or whale blubber? You decide

Originally posted by Seekerof
Great articles and information William One Sac.

Thanks.

Thats diffently a whole lot of blubber!? I'm mystified myself as to how such a large 'chunk' washed up. Is this 'part' of a larger carcass or the carcass? IF carcass, why no bones and such....really a mystery....lots of questions...

According to one of the news stories, some specialist "I know about everything there is to know about whales" scientist said that when a whale dies it can be floating around for months in the ocean, gradually decomposing. At some point the skeleton loosens from the rest of the carcass and sinks to the bottom, while the rest looks like a, a, well a blob really and this can of course wash ashore, and it is really not that uncommon. And he also told that there is a very simple way to find out whether it's a whale or an octopus carcass: they smell differently. A female Chilean scientist of the same kind (only with "octopussies" hehe) as his said in another article that it didn't smell like a decomposing octopus. So I guess the answer will either be a whale or some kind of new species.

Blessings,
Mikromarius