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11/30/16

SUPER SQUISHY WATER BALLOONS OR JELLY FISH? WHAT WASHED UP IN HUNGTINGTON BEACH?

NATURE WORLD NEWS - STRANGE JELLY CREATURES   by Monica Antonio


EXCERPT ... Ryan Rustan, a local resident, posted a picture of the strange creatures that he described as "little water balloons popping under his feet." Rustan noted that there were approximately thousands of these little creatures on the Huntington Beach shore...  Weird as they may look, Matt Bracken, UC Irvine associate professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, offered some answers in unveiling what these strange creatures really are. Bracken said these creatures could be "pelagic tunicates" or more commonly known as snaps.

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