Residents of Simberi Island in Papua New Guinea, Last month they found the remains of a fishshaped creature that caused surprise and sparked a nationwide controversy. Because people couldn’t find an explanation, they called the mermaid’s corpse a “globster,” a word used in English for any type of mysterious organic mass.
The creature, which is initially considered a supposed marine mammal, has not yet received a uniform diagnosis among the experts surveyed by the science portal WordSsideKick.com.
“Strange Dead Sea creature in the shape of a mermaid washed up on the shores of Simberi Island this morning. Does anyone have any explanation to identify her?”, teases a post on the New Irelanders Only (NIO) Facebook profile. The volcanic island of Simberi in the Bismark Sea is part of the New Irish province of Papua New Guinea. The population does not exceed 1,000 inhabitants.
What do experts say about the “Globster Mermaid”?
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According to Erich Hoyt, researcher at the British NGO Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), “That looks like a longdead dugong,” he told the Chron. The “cousin” of our manatee, the dugong (Dugong dugon), is a herbivorous marine mammal popularly known as a sea cow. In an interview with Live Science, the chief scientist at the Pacific Whale Foundation in Hawaii agrees with the hypothesis that the globster is a dugong.
Environmental scientist Helene Marsh from James Cook University in Australia didn’t want to take any chances and told the platform that the globster mermaid was an unspecified marine mammal. Another marine mammal expert, Sascha Hooker of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, argued that the remains were likely from a “very decomposed whale”.
One of the experts even suggested the possibility that the Globster mermaid was a deceased shark, but most scholars on the subject refuted the theory, saying that the shape of the creature’s tail, fins and spine was not resembled those of a shark. Hai.
So what exactly is the Globster mermaid?
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Without precise information about the size and weight of the remains of the sea creature because the residents did not take any measurementsit is difficult for experts remotely to make any educated guess.
Additionally, no resident had the skills or equipment to collect DNA samples, making identification of the body virtually impossible. Now, a month after the discovery, any kind of research is even more difficult. because the residents of Simberi decided to bury the remains of the animal.
Whether dugong, whale, dolphin or shark, the truth is that we will probably never be sure of the true identity of the globster mermaid from Simberi Island. In the absence of a plausible explanation, here is a Facebook comment: “It must have been an ancient mermaid who came at the time of her death and then died.”