The source of the gelatinous globs of goop found on the shores of Placentia Bay have people guessing, with hypotheses ranging from invasive species, to Petroleum discharge, to whale boogers

The people of Newfoundland post all kinds of photos online of the captivating things they find washed up along the island’s 17,000 kilometres of coastline. Most of the time it’s run-of-the-mill flotsam from the Atlantic. Random boat parts. A giant fish head. Sea glass. Lots of sea glass.

Then the white blobs showed up – a mystery that has been baffling government scientists for weeks.

Philip Grace was the first to post a photograph of the lumpy gelatinous goop (sorry, Gwyneth) scattered over the pebbly beach in Ship Harbour, a community in southern Newfoundland.

  • @11111one11111English
    6•17 hours ago

    How does everyone read articles from sites with pay walls or require creating accounts? Is it work around or does this many people have publication subscriptions?

    • Mbourgon everywhereEnglish
      9•15 hours ago

      On my phone. If you hit reader mode while the page is loading, usually you can read it. And if not, shortcut to archive.is

    • @[email protected]English
      4•17 hours ago

      Didn’t get walled for me. I think they give you a number of free articles each week before triggering the paywall. I grab the url and go to archive.is or another archiver when it happens.