The bones of the 50-legged monster S were discovered on the coast of Indonesia by researchers

Blood seeping from the eastern Dead Sea had dyed the water near shore a bright red, which didn't stop locals from coming in to take a closer look and take pictures.

A giant sea creature, possibly with fangs, washed up on an Indonesian beach last week, scaring people on the island of Seram and launching a global guessing game to determine exactly what it used to be.

As images of the floating corpses shot up across the internet, the scientific community wondered: What is it? How did you get to an Indonesian island? And what does their presence say about climate change and the migration habits of whales?

Asrul Tuanakota, a 37-year-old fisherman, initially thought he had discovered a stranded boat in shallow water, according to the Jakarta Globe. On closer inspection, he determined that it was the decomposing body of a 50-foot-long dead sea creature, possibly a giant squid because the remains resembled tentacles.

Flooding seeping in from the eastern Dead Sea had dyed the water near the shoreline a bright red, which didn't stop locals from coming over for a closer look and to take pictures.

George Leonard, the Ocean Conservancy's chief scientist, told the Huffington Post that the decomposing carcasses were likely a baleen whale, judging by parts of a protruding skeleton and what appear to be baleen plates used to filter water. meal.

The decomposition gases buoyed the whale in a very unwhale-like shape, and some of the noxious gases were leaking out.

Seram, the largest island in the Moluccas island group, is close to the migratory routes of baleen whales, so it makes sense that there would be a fence. Locals have called on the government to help remove the bodies, the Huffington Post reported.

But dead whales typically sink to the bottom of the ocean, providing a years-long buffet for the creatures that dwell there, according to LiveScienceKick.com. The publication theorized that the whale either had a bacterial infection that produced more gas, or that it possibly died in warm waters, allowing the bacteria to accumulate and the gases to expand its body. It could also have died an unnatural death after being cornered by a ship.

Of course, things move in the ocean all the time, producing all kinds of strange phenomena. But now fishermen, townspeople and tourists, and their smartphones, are coming into contact with things from the Dead Sea as they go through the circle of life.

Seram, the largest island in the Moluccas island group, is close to the migratory routes of baleen whales, so it makes sense that there would be a fence. Locals have called on the government to help remove the bodies, the Huffington Post reported.

But dead whales typically sink to the bottom of the ocean, providing a years-long buffet for the creatures that dwell there, according to LiveScienceKick.com. The publication theorized that the whale either had a bacterial infection that produced more gas, or that it possibly died in warm waters, allowing the bacteria to accumulate and the gases to expand its body. It could also have died an unnatural death after being cornered by a ship.

Of course, things move in the ocean all the time, producing all kinds of strange phenomena. But now fishermen, townspeople and tourists, and their smartphones, are coming into contact with things from the Dead Sea as they go through the circle of life.