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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

1 posted on 02/05/2021 12:16:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 02/05/2021 12:19:29 PM PST by DannyTN
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Knotted rope? Where’s the k, Noted I ?


3 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. )
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Is Bubba Wallace aware of this?


4 posted on 02/05/2021 12:22:30 PM PST by cdcdawg (My greatest fear is that our society will get what it deserves.)
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How noted was it?.................


5 posted on 02/05/2021 12:28:42 PM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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Floss for the Kraken!!

I’m sorry, I don’t know WHERE that came from.


6 posted on 02/05/2021 12:43:02 PM PST by PLMerite
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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.


7 posted on 02/05/2021 1:12:26 PM PST by dainbramaged (Windage and Elevation)
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"...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!


8 posted on 02/05/2021 1:48:56 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SunkenCiv

crypto-z ping-o


9 posted on 02/05/2021 2:01:02 PM PST by SteveH
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(for the sea creature, not for the democrat creature...)


10 posted on 02/05/2021 2:02:27 PM PST by SteveH
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It's a trap!


11 posted on 02/05/2021 2:04:47 PM PST by Bratch
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I wonder if she has an air tank and a captive bolt pistol in her car.


12 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)
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looks like cabling from a data center, a gnarled mess.


13 posted on 02/05/2021 2:40:21 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! In CONgre$$ WE're Disgusted!! NMP!)
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the kraken has been released...


14 posted on 02/05/2021 2:47:30 PM PST by heavy metal (your reward will be in heaven not on your paycheck...)
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OMG! Keith Richards looks far better than THAT THING!!


15 posted on 02/05/2021 4:19:45 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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The face of Disconnecticutt!


16 posted on 02/05/2021 4:32:37 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SteveH

Somewhere nearby there may be a mermaid in a domino mask and a leather bra...


17 posted on 02/05/2021 4:47:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Vaquero

that is so note-y...


18 posted on 02/05/2021 7:04:22 PM PST by SteveH
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