Faceless, ‘Hairy Sea Monster’ Washes Up On Russian Beach
The Siberian Times
The weird news of a mysterious sea creature discovered on a Russian beach left everyone scratching their heads.
The foul-smelling, “hairy sea monster” washed up on the shore of the Bering Sea on the Pacific side of the Kamchatka peninsula, according to The Siberian Times.
The behemoth is said to be more than three times the size of a man and has no distinguishable head or eyes. It is covered with white and gray hair that Svetlana Dyadenko, the woman who found the beast and captured it on video, said is tubular.
“The most interesting thing to me is that the creature is covered with tubular fur,” Dyadenko said according to The Siberian Times. “Could it be some ancient creature? I wish scientists could inspect this enigma that ocean threw at us.”
The Siberian Times
The creature’s tubular hair is hollow and colorless, similar to the type of hair found on polar bears, according to Gizmodo. The animal also appears to have a long tail, or possibly a tentacle.
The creature could be a “globster,” which experts say can resemble large octopi and might even have bones and tentacles, but none of them are usually as completely covered in hair as this most recent one.
Some scientists have suggested that globsters are just the carcasses of dead large sea creatures. Sergei Kornev, a marine biologist in Kamchatka, seems to agree, telling The Siberian Times that the creature is mostly like a whale.
“Under the influence of the sea, time, and various animals, from smallest to the largest, a whale often takes on bizarre forms,” Kornev said. “This is only part of a whale, not a whole one.”
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