Weird creature measured 6ft long
February 6, 2010 by admin · 55 Comments
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.”
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Holy crap…that is some scary shit!
Look, it’s something we don’t know and it’s creepy! Let’s get it out of the water and kill it! Nice…
WTF is that shit
I FIRST CAME ACROSS GOOSE BARNICLES,,,AS A YOUNG,,, SPROG , YOU DO NOT SHOW THE TENTICALS,,, CRAB LIKE ATTACHED TO OLD PART OF SOME OLD SHIP …LIVERPOOL… GOODBYE… OLD SHIP… OF MINE… UNCLE… ALBERT DOCK…
aw…this is pretty awesome!
Its no creauture. It are hundreds.
Look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepadidae
It are goose barnacles.
Hello!
In Portugal we eat this!
We call it “Percebes” and its good, tast like smooth sea (there are no other way to describe it)!
In many bar’s in the west coast, you could eat it with a good bear! They look strange but they are realy good!
Cheers!
this is a bunch of the same creatures together but they live as a whole
is it danger for human ?
So weird and very scary……
quote:
“..This barnacle may look like a mollusc but it is in fact a crustacean related to shrimps, lobsters and crabs.”
…so is it eatable? …you know incase i run into one….
its awesome, its art, its cool
they are gooseneck barnicals, they can bw found on practicaly anything in the ocean/saltwater creeks.
It’s a log. Covered with loads of barnacles and seaweeds. Etc.
I’m so glad i found this!
I saw one of these when i was holiday in wales when i was 9.
Nobody would frickin believed me!
Jeroen’s right, it’s a log covered in goose barnacles. Saw one of these washed up near where I live.
Yea…. this is just a drifting log covered in gooseneck barnacles. Good research, people. :/
Zeree, isn’t that pretty much what they said?
Wow this is a great resource.. I’m enjoying it.. good article
whatever it is, its still an asian girl’s nightmare
did it died?
Really Amazing….
wat dah hell is that
its not a weird creature, they leave at the bottom of the sea
To all you people saying ‘it’s not real’ it’s Gooseneck Barnacles…. NO SHIT, if you took 30 seconds to read the article you would see it says that…
ehehe if something like that ended up in a beach here in Portugal, you know what would happen to that? we’d eat it all
( those are sold pretty expensive ate seafood restaurants, no weird animal at all… )
i live here and i never even heard about this!
haha wierd!
getting one in my akvarium
I’ll fire up the grill!
I think I saw a tiny Japanese girl in there . . .
I swear this exact same log washed up on Polzeath beach in Cornwall, feasable as its just across the water. I have photos ill add. Worst thing about this was the intense smell of salty rotting fishy flesh
Um, if y’all read the article, it clearly states that the pictures are of a log encrusted in barnacles.
You got to be too mutch stupid to believe that’s a creature, monster or whatever.
It’s just a colony of this creature here:
http://www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/biology/rosario/inverts/Arthropoda/Crustacea/Maxillopoda/Cirripedia/Lepas_anatifera.html
Ask a biologist about these kind of things before you panic
This creature is a freak… Kill it people..
This apparent creature seem to be a community of worms from the mid atlantic rift – the type that feed from the chemicals from volcanic vents. But I’m no expert.
what is name of this creature.is it alive now ?
Jeroen is right. it’s a colony of goose barnacles that has broken free of it’s moorings and floated to the surface. Not one thing, hundreds.
Take this thing for movie Alien 5!
i got goose bumps!…haha that’s why it calls goose barnacles…really cant believe on these…its like a million worms gathering on somewhere…with a saltwater mussel on the tip…it’s amazing but frightens my whole body!…think i need a research on this!
awesome! what is it? never saw such a thing before
It’s creepy.
Soendoro Soetanto
don’t be tricked this a mating party for sea shells probably on some objcest such as a piece of rope or a logg, they always use these kind of phenomenons to scare people, what for god sake is a sea creature it’s nothing !!!!
For those who take 30 sec to read the article, it says “it’s a log full of small animals called barnacles” but still you people go all out “KILL IT!! IT’S SATAN’S POO COMING TO EAT US ALL!!!!”
No.
Awesome find though, never seen it before!
Bai.
I want to see the viedo of it
That really is an awesome creature. I wonder how it tastes….We should boil it and eat it like crab legs! Thats alotta LEGS!
Log covered with Goose Barnacles. Strange creature indeed.
its probably a plant
resident evil 5 looooooool!!!
resident evil 6 lol