Monday, July 27, 2015

Mysterious Balls of Goo Are Rolling Onto American Beaches

By Rachel Kaufman, National Geographic
July 27,2015; 9:38AM,EDT


Credit: Reinhard Dirscherl, Ullstein Bild/Getty Images
The following excerpt is from National Geographic.
Stranded jellyfish are common sights along beaches around the world. Some places can see up to a billion animals coating the sand. But beach-goers along the U.S. East Coast are running across a surprising sight this summer: thousands of knuckle-size, gelatinous blobs washing up from the surf.
Often called "jellyfish eggs" for their superficial resemblance, these creatures are called salps and they're more closely related to people than they are to jellyfish.
In fact, the only thing salps and jellyfish have in common is that both are gelatinous and both float around in the ocean, says Larry Madin, executive vice president and director of research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
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