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A globster, or blob, is an unidentified shoreline of an ocean or other body of water. The term was coined by Ivan T. Sanderson in 1962[1] to describe the Tasmanian carcass of 1960, which was said to have "no visible eyes, no defined head, and no apparent bone structure." A globster is distinguished from a normal beached carcass by being hard to identify, at least by initial untrained observers, and by creating controversy as to its identity.
Globsters may present such a puzzling appearance that their nature remains controversial even after being officially identified by scientists. Some globsters lack bones or other recognisable structures, while others may have bones, tentacles, flippers, eyes or other features that can help narrow down the possible species. In the past these were often described as sea monsters, and myths and legends about such monsters may often have started with the appearance of a globster. Globsters are most frequently studied in the field of cryptozoology.
Many globsters have initially been described as gigantic octopuses, though they later turned out to be decayed carcasses of whales or large sharks. As with the "Chilean Blob" of 2003, many are masses of whale blubber released from decaying whale corpses. Others initially thought to be dead plesiosaurs later turned out to be the decayed carcases of basking sharks. Others remain unexplained. Giant and colossal squid may also explain some globsters, particularly those tentatively identified as monster octopuses.
Some globsters were examined only after they had decomposed too much and seemed to represent evidence of a new species, or were destroyed—as happened with the "Cadborosaurus willsi" carcass, found in 1937.[2] However, Canadian scientists did analyse the DNA of the Newfoundland Blob—which revealed that the tissue was from a sperm whale. In their resulting paper, the authors point out a number of superficial similarities between the Newfoundland Blob and other globsters, concluding a similar origin for those globsters is likely.[3] Analyses of other globsters have yielded similar results.[4][5]
The following is a chronological list of carcasses that have been described as globsters or blobs in the literature.[1][6][7]
1808 Stronsay Beast 1896 St. Augustine Monster 1924 Trunko 1960 Tasmanian Globster 1968 New Zealand Globster
1970 Tasmanian Globster 2 1983 Gambo 1988 Bermuda Blob 1990 Hebrides blob
1996 Nantucket Blob 1997 Bermuda Blob 2 1997 Four Mile Globster 2001 Newfoundland Blob 2003 Chilean Blob
Pseudoscience, Zoology, Paranormal, Bigfoot, Botany
Evolution, Forestry, Plant physiology, Biology, Ecology
Evolution, Biology, Ethology, Ecology, Anatomy
Giant squid, Copper, Iron, Whale, Valine
Tasmania, Ton, Whale, Globster, Bermuda Blob
Botany, Zoology, Globster, Newfoundland and Labrador, Bermuda Blob
Botany, Zoology, Globster, London, Loch Ness Monster
Greenland, Jules Verne, Cryptozoology, Scandinavian folklore, Botany
Cryptozoology, South Africa, Botany, Zoology, Africa
Cryptozoology, Botany, Bahamas, Zoology, Globster