The Hebrides Blob was a formerly unidentified carcass that washed ashore on Benbecula beach in the Hebrides, Scotland in 1990.
Description[]
Louise Whitts, who discovered the Hebrides Blob, described it as the following:
"It had what appeared to be a head at one end, a curved back and seemed to be covered with eaten-away flesh or even a furry skin and was 12 feet long [and] it had all these shapes like fins along its back."
Explanation[]
DNA analysis revealed the Hebrides Blob to be the remains of a sperm whale.