The oceans are the most mysterious environments on Earth. This is because, while so much research has been done on the aquatic ecosystem and countless species that have already been discovered and named, there is still 80% of the ocean floor that has yet to be touched or seen.
While creatures from the shallows are easy to spot, people often experience a shock when a creature washes ashore from the dark depths of the sea, as they may have never encountered such a creature before. A British woman found a blob on a British beach that puzzled the experts.
Ladbible reported that Helen Marlow was walking her dog on Marazion Beach, near Penzance in Cornwall, when she encountered a mysterious faceless white mass, partially covered in seaweed.
Marlow told CornwallLive: “I discovered it on Marazion beach around noon when the tide was out. I had no idea what it was, it looked like a huge mass of something organic. My dog went wild, he seemed free fresh with no signature tears or damage and had no bad smell. I had no idea.”
After failing to identify the creature, Marlow decided to post some photos on the British Marine Life Study Society’s Facebook page to see if people knew what it was.
While many of them had countless different answers, the experts eventually determined it was a whale’s gut or stomach.
Marine Conservation Officer Abby Crosby said: “Local marine biologists believed it could be a whale’s placenta, which would have been a very exciting discovery if it meant a whale had been born off the coast of Cornwall. Experts from the British However, Cetacean Strandings Investigation Program (CSIP) have determined that it was more likely a whale gut or stomach.We often see marine mammals such as dolphins, whales and porpoises – collectively known as cetaceans – sadly washed up dead on our beaches in various stages of decomposition. ”
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