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The Texas coastline is seeing a rare and unusual sight: thousands of mysterious sea creatures washing ashore after what experts are calling a “mass die off.” The creatures, commonly known as sea potatoes, are actually heart urchins—a type of ...
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Mass die-off: 1,000s of rare sea creatures mysteriously hit Texas coast
Along long stretches of the Texas shoreline, thousands of rare sea creatures have been turning up dead or dying, transforming familiar beaches into eerie fields of stranded life. The scale of the strandings has startled coastal communities and raised urgent questions about what is happening offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.
Spurilla neapolitana was spotted in the United Kingdom waters for the first time. (Charlotte Cumming via SWNS) By Lauren Beavis A "groundbreaking" sea slug discovery has been made - in a UK first. The nudibranch Spurilla neapolitana, typically found in ...
Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance to see. Pressures are immense enough to crush steel ...
Along the rocky coast of eastern Italy at night, researchers scanned a tide pool in hopes of seeing something interesting. A “leaf”-like sea creature caught their attention — and for good reason. It turned out to be a “rare” and first-of-its-kind ...
A group of “rarely seen” Gervais’ beaked whales was recently spotted near Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago, photos show. Screengrab from the Magic Dolphin ecotour agency A mysterious group of deep-sea whales was just spotted near a remote ...
These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its crushing pressure, near-freezing temperatures and ...
A mass die-off along the Texas coast has afflicted a strange, rarely seen creature - and recent cold weather could be to blame. "The biggest news this week has to be the mass die off of these sea potatoes, aka heart urchins," Jace Tunnell, community ...