New Zealand Globster
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The New Zealand Globster was a large unidentified carcass that washed ashore at Muriwai, on the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, in 1968. It was 30 feet long and 8 feet high. J. E. Morton, chairman of the Zoology Department at the University of Auckland, was quoted as saying, "I can't think of anything it resembles." Although no samples of the mass were taken, recent analysis of other globsters suggests that the Tasmanian Globster was a large mass of adipose tissue from a whale, likely a Humpback Whale.
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- Ellis, R. 1994. Monsters of the Sea. Robert Hale, London.
St. Augustine Monster (1896) • Tasmanian Globster (1960) • New Zealand Globster (1968) • Tasmanian Globster 2 (1970) • Bermuda Blob (1988) • Hebrides Blob (1990) • Bermuda Blob 2 (1995) • Nantucket Blob (1996) • Bermuda Blob 3 (1997) • Four Mile Globster (1997) • Newfoundland Blob (2001) • Chilean Blob (2003)
