Tasmanian Globster

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March 9, 1962 issue of The Mercury covering the Tasmanian Globster.

The Tasmanian Globster was a large unidentified carcass that washed ashore Script error: No such module "convert". north of Interview River in western Tasmania, in August 1960. It measured Script error: No such module "convert". by Script error: No such module "convert". and was estimated to weigh between 5 and 10 tons. The mass lacked eyes and in place of a mouth, had "soft, tusk-like protuberances". It had a spine, six soft, fleshy 'arms' and stiff, white bristles covering its body.

The carcass was identified as a whale by L.E. Wall in the journal Tasmanian Naturalist in 1981.[1][2]

The term globster was coined in 1962 by Ivan T. Sanderson to describe this carcass, and another journalist dubbed the corpse Sea Santa that same year.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

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  1. Harris, J.M. 2005 Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". The Tasmanian Naturalist 127: 20-41
  2. Pierce, S., S. Massey, N. Curtis, G. Smith, C. Olavarría & T. Maugel 2004. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Biological Bulletin 206: 125-133

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