Thanks to scarmig (http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=560) for quickly turning up this breaking news story:

Beached "blob" mystery solved (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20030711/od_uk_nm/oukoe_chile_creature&e=12&ncid=757)

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