Massive rotting sea creature mystifies grossed out village

Screen grab from a YouTube video posted by Patasiwa Kumbang Amalatu of a mysterious rotting giant corpse discovered on Tuesday on the beach of a Indonesian Island. Screen grab from a YouTube video posted by Patasiwa Kumbang Amalatu of a mysterious rotting giant corpse discovered on Tuesday on the beach of a Indonesian Island. Photo: YouTube/Patasiwa Kumbang Amalatu Photo: YouTube/Patasiwa Kumbang Amalatu Image 1 of / 41 Caption Close Massive rotting sea creature mystifies grossed out village 1 / 41 Back to Gallery

It came from the water. It's roughly 50 feet long and weighs as much as 35 tons ... and it's slimy and rotting on the shoreline of a mystified village on an Indonesian island.

No one knows for sure what it is, yet, though this mass of rotting flesh that's turning the water around it red has been guessed to be a giant squid or a baleen whale of some kind.

Whatever it is, the villages or the Seram Island are hoping someone will come and drag the darn thing off.

The Jakarta Globe reports, "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."

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While most news sites are reporting the giant mound of rotting flesh is the corpse of a giant squid, one expert told Mashable that it's almost certainly a whale.

"[Based] on the images and videos, in the advanced stage of decomposition it is not possible to determine whether that is a humpback whale or not," the expert from the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum told Mashable.

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