When beachgoers at Hartland Abbey in Devon, England, recently discovered a huge, fleshy, tubular mass washed up on the rocks, their first reaction, understandably, was to imagine they had stumbled on some kind of mysterious creature, perhaps unknown to science.
But the truth—as usual—is both more mundane and more interesting. The clumps are just some adorably named barnacles that arrived on some driftwood.— Hartland Peninsula (@Visit_Hartland)
As explained in a story on Earth Touch News, goose barnacles usually grow in tropical climates, but they can drift to coasts all over the world, like…
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