The Tasmanian Globster was a large unidentified carcass that washed ashore 2sigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 north of Interview River in western Tasmania, in August 1960. It measured 20sigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 by 18sigfig=2NaNsigfig=2 and was estimated to weigh between 5 and 10 tons. The mass lacked eyes and in place of a mouth, had "soft, tusk-like protuberances". It had a spine, six soft, fleshy 'arms' and stiff, white bristles covering its body.
The carcass was identified as a whale by L.E. Wall in the journal Tasmanian Naturalist in 1981,[1] and a later electron microscopy analysis of the collagen fibers confirmed this.[2]
The term globster was coined in 1962 by Ivan T. Sanderson to describe this carcass, and another journalist dubbed the corpse Sea Santa that same year.