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The sea is dark and full of terror. Well, perhaps not always terror, but certainly mysterious lifeforms, as evidenced by a bizarre purple blob that appeared off the coast of California the other week.

Now, a new bemusing lump of biological matter has appeared near the shores of Bunbury, Western Australia, and it’s safe to say that it caused some fishermen a bit of head-scratching. Smooth, pink, fleshy, and unbearably smelly, this chunky conundrum simply couldn’t be identified – at least at first.....

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/heck-smelly-pink-blob-floating-indian-ocean/









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Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2016, 08:31:23 pm »
The first seagull to pop its beak into that is in for a big surprise.

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Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2016, 08:32:00 pm »
Without reading the story I'm gonna say its some kind of dead baleen whale.

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Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2016, 08:36:39 pm »
Without reading the story I'm gonna say its some kind of dead baleen whale.

Yep, stomach full of gas from decomposition like  a big zit waiting to pop, and she goes...


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Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2016, 08:53:23 pm »
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Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2016, 08:55:41 pm »
Without reading the story I'm gonna say its some kind of dead baleen whale.

If it is anything like a beaver in a similar condition ... DON'T POKE IT WITH A STICK.

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Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2016, 08:54:28 pm »
Another Malaysian airliner?
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Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2016, 09:32:59 pm »
My God! They found Robert Maxwell.
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Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2016, 09:58:24 pm »
Dead whale welled up like a poisoned puppy...could be enough hydrogen sulfide in there to be quite dangerous.