Myths & mysteries
St. Augustine monster was a fleshy blob from the deep
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In 1896, a horrific, gigantic mass of decaying pale flesh inexplicably washed up on a Florida beach, severely baffling local biologists who theorized it was an undiscovered prehistoric octopus. A century later, modern electron microscopy finally tested the preserved tissue, disappointingly revealing it was merely the mutilated blubber of a sperm whale.
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