globster
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thumb|250px|The "St. Augustine Monster", a carcass that washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida, in 1896
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thumb|250px|The "St. Augustine Monster", a carcass that washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida, in 1896
A globster or blob is an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water. A globster is distinguished from a normal beached carcass by being hard to identify, at least by initial untrained observers, and by creating controversy as to its identity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “globster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.