Weird thing washes up on Beach

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Weird creature measured 6ft long | Zevs - Unusual, Interesting facts and Cute pictures

A mysterious creature horrified holidaymakers after it washed up on a beach on the Gower Peninsula in Wales. The writhing mass of tentacles, which measured at least 6ft from end to end. The barnacles – long writhing stalks or pendulates, tipped with shells – are normally found deep below the waves, but were washed up clinging to a log. This barnacle may look like a mollusc but it is in fact a crustacean related to shrimps, lobsters and crabs. The goose barnacle or percebe thrives at the ocean’s foamy edge. Slammed by boiling sea waves, laved in saline by constant saltwater surf, the percebe thrives clinging to wave-lashed crags of the sea, to coastal rocks in narrow inlets called ‘surge channels’ up which the ocean thrusts oxygen-rich waves tumbling and roiling to wash over the barnacle colonies, thus providing tiny planktonic food to be caught by the winnowing fan-like legs poking out and up from the barnacle. Barnacles attach themselves to rocks by their “heads” and feed by means of their feathery “legs.”

 

[Anytime23]

Soooo its just a bunch of barnacles attached to a log?

 

[tbo41fan]

whoa...thats theird

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

holy....bajeebus


wtf is that

 

[tbo41fan]

Oh, I didnt read the part where it said it was attached to a log...I thought it was a big bunch of tentacles

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

so its a CRUSTACEAN?

 

[beardown28]

so its a CRUSTACEAN?

That's what she said.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha


what

 

[zack54attack]

wtf is that?

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

yea i know thats what i said

 

[Jntg4]

That's awesome! To bad it wasn't a new shark species. I'm obsessed with sharks. Well... unless they are from San Jose, lol.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

lol san jose sharks

 

[DewsSox79]

if i saw that in person while walking on the beach....you would hear a 30 year old scream like a girl.

 

[CubbieBlue]

if i saw that in person while walking on the beach....you would hear a 30 year old scream like a girl.

lol

I wonder how it tastes.

 

[X]

lol

I wonder how it tastes.

^^^

:beerbang:

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

bon apetite

 

[tbo41fan]

yum!