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The people of Newfoundland post all kinds of photos online of the captivating things they find washed up along the island's 17,000 kilometres of coastline. Most of the time it's run-of-the-mill flotsam from the Atlantic. Random boat parts. A giant fish head. Sea glass. Lots of sea glass.

Then the white blobs showed up -- a mystery that has been baffling government scientists for weeks.

Philip Grace was the first to post a photograph of the lumpy gelatinous goop (sorry, Gwyneth) scattered over the pebbly beach in Ship Harbour, a community in southern Newfoundland.

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Going with whale blubber on this one

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Or ambergris. Whale puke. They use it to make perfumes. Seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris

This is what it looks like before it's dried out:

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I would have expected that to be a prime suspect and eliminated or confirmed quickly...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're probably right, but easily explainable "unexplained" things wash up on the shore so often and get pushed that way by the press, that I wouldn't be shocked if it was ambergris.

https://tidelinesblog.com/2018/10/10/mystery-object-on-the-beach-update/ <-- "Mystery object" that's probably just a buoy.

https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-hairy-sea-monster-blob-beach-oregon-dead-whale-1752642 <-- "Mystery object" that's just a decomposing whale.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/giant-mystery-object-found-beach-33813093 <-- "Mystery fossil" is whale's penis.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66220494 <-- "Mystery object" is part of a rocket.

It even happens with "blobs."

https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/texas-sea-creature-beach-18670010.php <-- "Mystery blob" is dead sea nettle.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/north-carolina-coast-mysterious-mass-identified-what-is-the-blob <-- "Mysterious blob" is my squid babies, so leave it alone.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

According to the article scientists already collected samples and ruled out some theories. They still don't know what it is. So not something easily explainable.

[–] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It's worth a ton of money so yes!

[–] Lookorex@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

Precious hamburgers?