It’s bloody and has numerous wounds. It is believed that It got into a fight with something bigger
i do not like the words “something bigger” in this context
fun fact: seram means “scary” in Indonesian
It just looks like a dead, rotting whale though?
it’s some kinda dead baleen whale. here’s exactly what you’re looking at in the videos but without the rotting meat and blubber
baleen is the term for their brush-like filter teeth, which are very brittle and don’t always stay attached to the skull of the animal after death and after rot has set in, especially if the animal was sick before it died, so their odd skeletons look even more alien without teeth
their skeletons are just really alien-looking in general without their blubber and flesh attached, and not many people even know what a whale skeleton looks like, especially since their skeletons look almost NOTHING like what they look like when they’re alive
in fact, their skeletons look quite sea serpent-like, so it’s not so shocking that people look at washed up carcasses of whales in advanced stages of decay and think “sea monster” and alternatively; their blubbery pelts(often referred to as globsters) tend to deglove themselves from the corpse during decay and wash up on shore, which can be equally confusing and distressing since not many people know that whales have bristly whiskers that sometimes remain in the degloved skin, and the fibrous rotting blubber can also have a fur-like appearance, making identifying a whale from it’s skin a not-so-easy task for someone not familiar with how whales decay
as for the numerous bloody wounds reported, it’s most likely either wounds from a boat propeller that killed the whale in the first place, or the whale got sick and split off from it’s pod to die, drifted a bit and sharks and other scavengers probably picked at it before it washed up in the shallows
so yeah, long story short, it’s just a whale. it’s not a monster. and there’s nothing to freak out about. However, yes, we do know more about space than we do our own seas, so the sea is a very mysterious place and that can be scary, but you really shouldn’t jump to conclusions.
also i’m not kidding about the whiskers. never forget that whales are mammals
WHALES EXIST, DIE, AND ROT. HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF TIMES IS THIS GOING TO MAKE NEWS WITH “NOOOOOOBODY KNOWS WHAT THIS COULD BEEEEEEEE!!! WHAT COULD EVER POSSIBLY BE BIG AND IN THE OCEAN WE JUST DONT KNOOOOOOOOOW”
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