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VIDEO: Weird Huge Creature Washed up on Shore in India. No One Could Identify It.

In recent years there have been a lot of weird things washing up on shores all over the world. A lot of them cannot be explained and they might be creatures that we have never seen before.

Some say that we know more things and that we’ve explored more of space then we know of our oceans.

Truth it that a lot of weird creatures could be living in the depth of the ocean. There are also those that don’t believe that such strange beings could come from the depth of the ocean and they think that they might be mythical creatures like mermaids and krakens or even aliens.

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According to livescience.com, a monstrously huge creature that washed ashore on a remote Indonesian beach, oozing a mysterious red fluid, is probably a baleen whale in an advanced state of decomposition, experts said.

The nearly 50-foot-long (15 meters) marine creature was lying on Hulung Beach on Seram Island, Indonesia, and was first discovered by 37-year-old local resident Asrul Tuanakota, who initially mistook the creature for a boat, the Jakarta Globe reported.

Despite the blob’s bizarre appearance, it’s clearly a baleen whale, said Alexander Werth, a whale biologist at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.

“There is lots of stuff in the ocean that we don’t know about — but there’s nothing that big” that remains unknown, Werth said.

Two dead giveaways revealed that the creature was a whale, Werth said: the grooves, or “throat pleats,” and the upper jaw where the two racks of baleen plates, used for filtering out food in the whale’s mouth, would have been.

While scientists can say for sure that the whale belongs to the genus Balaenoptera, it’s not clear exactly which species it is: It could be either a blue whale or a Bryde’s whale, Werth said.

However, Bryde’s whales are not usually that big. The creature could also be a fin whale, said Moe Flannery, the collections manager in ornithology and mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences.

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The beached whale is clearly in an advanced state of decomposition and likely has been dead for anywhere from two weeks to several months, Werth and Flannery said.

The decomposition, and the gases produced by the associated bacteria, have inflated segments of the carcass like a balloon, Werth said.

Baleen whales typically have many bacteria in their guts that produce gas, Werth said. These keep reproducing once the whale dies, creating a foul stench and inflating the bodies, he said.

Normally, when a massive whale dies, it sinks to the bottom of the ocean, where the corpse serves as a feast for a year or two for an entire ecosystem of worms, hagfish, sharks and other marine creatures, Werth said.

However, if a ship swiped the animal, causing internal injuries that did not allow gases to escape, or if the whale had a bacterial infection that produced huge amounts of gases, the animal could inflate like a balloon — enough to float to shore, Werth said.

On the other hand, this ill-fated whale may simply have died in warm waters, which tend to fuel more bacterial growth. That, too, could rapidly produce enough gas after death to make the animal float rather than sink, Werth said.

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