Globster Washes Up on Seram Island in Maluku (May 2017)

[Kingsize Wombat]

Jakarta.

The remains of a giant squid (or something?) washed up on the shores of Seram Island in Maluku province earlier this week.

According to a statement Beritasatu.com received on Wednesday (10/05), a resident, identified as Asrul Tuanakota (37), discovered the 15-meter-long squid on Tuesday evening.

In the darkness, Asrul initially mistook the giant sea creature for a stranded boat.

The unusual finding attracted scores of residents to Hulung Beach at Iha village in West Seram district.

The reason for the giant squid washing up on the shore is still unknown, but it is believed to have been dead for at least three days before it was found.

Residents have meanwhile asked the government to help them remove the remains of the squid as it already started to decay.

Source: http://jakartaglobe.id/news/dead-giant-squid-washes-up-on-seram-island-in-maluku/

However, Marcus Chua of Singapore’s Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum told Mashable that there are no records of giant squids in the waters of Indonesia. Chua speculates that the creature may be a whale of the baleen group, possibly a humpback. He added, however, that “in the advanced stage of decomposition it is not possible to determine whether that is a humpback whale or not.”

Video here:

 

[Analis]

Clearly, another case of a decomposing whale (or 'globster').

 

[Kingsize Wombat]

Clearly, another case of a decomposing whale (or 'globster').

Sounds like you were correct!
http://jakartaglobe.id/news/giant-squid-that-washed-up-on-seram-island-was-a-whale-officials/

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

A later picture confirming it is a whale and quite interesting article in today's Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/18/dead-sea-monsters-whale

 

[rynner2]

This story was first posted on Saturday, here:

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/whale-beachings.16345/page-7#post-1673588