Nantucket Blob

Samples of the Nantucket Blob.

The Nantucket Blob was an unidentified mass (globster) that washed ashore on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, sometime during November 1996.^[1] Analysis of samples in 2004 suggests that the Nantucket Blob was a large mass of adipose tissue from a whale.^[2]

References

↑ Puig, R. 2004. A Whale of a Tale. Research Online, University of South Florida.
↑ Pierce, S., S. Massey, N. Curtis, G. Smith, C. Olavarría & T. Maugel 2004. Microscopic, Biochemical, and Molecular Characteristics of the Chilean Blob and a Comparison With the Remains of Other Sea Monsters: Nothing but Whales. Biological Bulletin 206: 125-133.

Blobs and globsters

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

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