Tag: Beach Combing
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Feeling Crabby? Tuna Crab Swarms and Mass Stranding Events
In the last several months, an unusual creature has been showing up in California’s coastal waters. Although they haven’t yet made their way into the intertidal, huge swarms of tuna crabs (Grimothea planipes), a pelagic member of the squat lobster family, have been seen off the SoCal’s coasts and may end up stranded on beaches. …
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What are the Blue Sea Jelly-Things Washing up On California’s Beaches?
If you’ve visited SoCal beaches in the last few days, you will have probably seen thousands— if not tens of thousands— blue sea jelly-looking creatures with stiff, transparent sails stranded at the high water line. These are by-the-wind sailors (Velella velella), not sea jellies, but small hydroids that occasionally wash up on our beaches. They…
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