On closer inspection, he determined that it was the rotting corpse of a 50-foot-long dead sea creature – possibly a giant squid because the remains looked like tentacles. But now fishermen and villages and tourists – and their smartphones – are coming into contact with dead sea things as they go through the circle of life. “When we got closer we realized it had to be a dead whale because of the smell,” Mark Watkins told the West Australian. By then, they said, circling sharks had taken bites of the dead creature, causing it to deflate. And earlier this year, a giant, hairy sea creature washed up on a beach in the Philippines, according to the Daily Mail.

Source: National Post May 15, 2017 13:41 UTC