Nothing cheers me more than a great cryptozoology story, and you really can’t go wrong with a “Giant blob baffles marine scientists”
headline.
The 12-metre-wide remains of a sea creature found by the Chilean navy are puzzling marine scientists, who think it may be a new species.
The specimen was at first taken for a beached whale when it was washed up a week ago but experts who have seen it say it appears not to have a backbone.
“We’d never before seen such a strange specimen.”