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  • Pile of Beach Debris Turns Out to Be Strange Sea Creature ('Pile of Rope')

    02/05/2021 12:16:33 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 17 replies
    9NEWS ^ | Feb 5, 2021
    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...