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Thursday, July 10, 2003

Gigantic blob of flesh from the sea still a mystery

Is it a sea monster? A new species? Or maybe just the innards of a long dead whale?
Speculation has run wild over a vast blob of gray flesh found on a Chilean beach two weeks ago, and scientists from around the world have jumped to help identify it.
One expert is at least sure of what it is not a giant octopus. "It's not an octopus. I couldn't tell you what it is but it's not an octopus," Sergio Letelier, researcher at the Museum of Natural History in Santiago, said today.

JULY 15: Preliminary tests suggest it is the remains of a sperm whale.
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