Every so often the sea gives back something nobody can name. Researchers call these shapeless lumps of washed-up tissue globsters. The first in the long line was the St. Augustine "giant octopus" of 1896, the specimen behind the proposed species Octopus giganteus. The Tasmanian West Coast Monster of 1960, the Nantucket Blob of 1996, two Bermuda blobs and the Chilean Blob of 2003 followed. Each looked like a monster until the microscope had its say. All were traced back to the decomposed remains of whales, and Brian Dunning took on the whole roll in Skeptoid.
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