Neither locals nor experts have yet been able to identify the bizarre 50-foot blob now rotting near Hulung Beach.
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When Asrul Tuanakota stumbled upon the enormous blob near Indonesia ’s Hulung Beach on Tuesday night , he think it was a strand boat . Soon , however , he realise that he ’d , in fact , found some mysterious ocean creature that had washed up dead on the shoring .
The rotting blob , which has bend the wall water bolshy as it decays , measuring rod just timid of 50 foot in length and weighs in at 35 tons – approximately the weight of four elephant .
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Some locals , in addition to the initial news report in theJakarta Globe , have identified the mystery story creature as a giant calamary . However , Marcus Chua of Singapore ’s Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum toldMashablethat there are no record of giant squids in the piddle of Indonesia .
Chua speculates that the brute may be a whale of the baleen group , possibly a humpback . He add together , however , that “ in the advanced microscope stage of disintegration it is not possible to determine whether that is a hunchback whale or not . ”
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In an attack to puzzle out this mystery story , marine expert were scheduled to take sample of the creature on Thursday . Meanwhile , local military command is keeping ticker over the carcase .
Local residents , however , have ask government agency to simply throw away of the carcass as soon as possible so that it contaminates the water system as little as possible . But given the creature ’s huge size and ongoing decay , the damage may already be done .
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