This marine biologist may have solved the mystery of alien-looking blocks in Brazil


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One of the alien-looking blocks washed up on Brazil’s coast. According to researchers, they come from a German ship that sank off the coast of Brazil in 1944. Photo: Limpurb/dpa

About three years ago, some beachgoers in north-eastern Brazil made a curious discovery when they stumbled across a crate-like object washed up on the shore, at first even thinking it could be a treasure chest.

Their hopes of finding pirate gold were quickly dashed, however, when the beach combers discovered that the object they had found wasn’t a box at all, but a crude block of rubber cut into a rectangular shape instead.

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