A 1962 newspaper article about a mysterious eighteen foot long carcass that washed up on the coast of Tasmania a year and a half earlier. It had gills and cilia but no apparent mouth, eyes, or internal organs. Instead it was a homogenous tissue unlike that of any known vertebrate or large invertebrate animal. A carcass over thirty feet long but otherwise nearly identical was found on the same stretch of beach in 1970, and a third one measuring fifteen feet was found nearby in 1997. There are sketchy mentions here and there of others.
Dubbed "globsters," the most frequent explanation for these bizarre creatures is that they are fragments of whales. That may be correct, but I have to wonder why whale carcasses would have gills and fine hairs but no trace of bones or organs, and why whales in one tiny area near Tasmania keep getting torn apart in the same way.