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Pile of Beach Debris Turns Out to Be Strange Sea Creature ('Pile of Rope')
9NEWS ^
| Feb 5, 2021
Posted on 02/05/2021 12:16:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
Think twice next time you stumble across a pile of garbage at the beach — you could have found a bizarre sea creature.
While out on patrol, a park guide in Texas stumbled across what looked like a pile of noted rope and yellow cord on a barrier island off the Texan coast.
The "rope ball" is actually a form of coral.
National Park Service (NPS) employee Rebekah Claussen made the discovery on the Padre Island National Seashore near the Gulf of Mexico.
She uploaded her photo to Facebook on February 1 and explained the knotted mass was actually "sea whip", a soft coral.
TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beach; coral; cryptobiology; seacreature; seawhip; texas
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
02/05/2021 12:19:29 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: nickcarraway
Knotted rope? Where’s the k, Noted I ?
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posted on
02/05/2021 12:19:49 PM PST
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
To: nickcarraway
Is Bubba Wallace aware of this?
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posted on
02/05/2021 12:22:30 PM PST
by
cdcdawg
(My greatest fear is that our society will get what it deserves.)
To: nickcarraway
How noted was it?.................
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posted on
02/05/2021 12:28:42 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
To: nickcarraway
Floss for the Kraken!!
I’m sorry, I don’t know WHERE that came from.
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posted on
02/05/2021 12:43:02 PM PST
by
PLMerite
To: nickcarraway
We brought up some deep water coral while commercial halibut fishing in Alaska, some of it can be made into jewelry. There used to be a huge piece of it behind the bar at the Juneau airport.
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posted on
02/05/2021 1:12:26 PM PST
by
dainbramaged
(Windage and Elevation)
To: DannyTN
"...a park guide in Texas stumbled across what looked like a pile of noted rope and yellow cord..."
At least she didn't stumble on a democrat!
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posted on
02/05/2021 1:48:56 PM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/05/2021 2:01:02 PM PST
by
SteveH
To: SunkenCiv
(for the sea creature, not for the democrat creature...)
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posted on
02/05/2021 2:02:27 PM PST
by
SteveH
To: nickcarraway
It's a trap!
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posted on
02/05/2021 2:04:47 PM PST
by
Bratch
To: Bonemaker
I wonder if she has an air tank and a captive bolt pistol in her car.
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posted on
02/05/2021 2:24:05 PM PST
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
To: nickcarraway
looks like cabling from a data center, a gnarled mess.
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posted on
02/05/2021 2:40:21 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! In CONgre$$ WE're Disgusted!! NMP!)
To: nickcarraway
the kraken has been released...
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posted on
02/05/2021 2:47:30 PM PST
by
heavy metal
(your reward will be in heaven not on your paycheck...)
To: Bonemaker
OMG! Keith Richards looks far better than THAT THING!!
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posted on
02/05/2021 4:19:45 PM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: SgtHooper
The face of Disconnecticutt!
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posted on
02/05/2021 4:32:37 PM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: SteveH
Somewhere nearby there may be a mermaid in a domino mask and a leather bra...
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posted on
02/05/2021 4:47:36 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Vaquero
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posted on
02/05/2021 7:04:22 PM PST
by
SteveH
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