Unidentified sea creature shows up along North Carolina beach
The creatures are about six inches long and no longer alive.
2:09 PM EDT Jul 21, 2022
CAPE LOOKOUT, N.C. —
An unidentified, mysterious sea creature has appeared along a North Carolina beach and the National Parks Service wants your help to figure out what it is.
The Cape Lookout National Seashore turtle patrol recently found the creatures on the ocean side of the beach adjacent to a log covered in goose-neck barnacles.
"So far, we're stumped as to what they might be," Cape Lookout National Seashore said in a Facebook post.
They said they are about six inches long and no longer alive.
The best guess the park service said they had was a form of sea cucumber (or sea slug?), but said they couldn't be matched to any images that were posted online.
Has anyone seen anything like this along the North Carolina coast (that's the western Atlantic Ocean) before?
If so, let the park service know here.
https://www.wyff4.com/article/uniden...olina/40679958
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