Wow — the ocean has been dropping off some seriously weird stuff!
Giant blobs, alien-looking fish, creatures with way too many legs… it’s like the ocean has its own secret toy box and sometimes just dumps it out on the sand.
Get ready to say “Whaaat?!” because these washed-up sea creatures are straight-up wild.
☝️ Take a gander at this giant squid with half-eaten tentacles washed up in New Zealand.
This deep-sea monster was about 13 feet long and looked like something straight out of a sci-fi movie.
Experts say scavengers probably snacked on it after it floated up, not during some deep-sea battle.
☝️ It was a full-on jellyfish takeover in North Carolina!
Thousands of cannonball jellies — round, bouncy, and about the size of a real cannonball — washed up along the Outer Banks.
Park rangers called it a “jellyfish jamboree” after spotting the swarm near Ocracoke Island.
☝️ Beachgoers in the Philippines got the shock of their lives when a giant, hairy blob washed ashore in 2018.
Locals nicknamed the 20-foot monster “the globster” — and yes, it smelled as bad as you’re imagining.
Scientists later said it was probably a rotting whale, with the “hair” actually being decomposing muscle fibers.
☝️ Thousands of weird blue creatures called Velella velella washed up all over California beaches.
They float on the ocean with tiny sails and get blown onto shore when the wind shifts.
They’re harmless, but they dry out fast and end up looking like crunchy, blue candy wrappers!
☝️ After Hurricane Harvey, a creepy fanged sea creature washed up on a Texas beach — and nobody knew what it was!
Turns out, it was a fangtooth snake-eel, a deep-sea critter with some seriously scary teeth.
Scientists say storms like Harvey can toss weird ocean creatures onto shore when nobody’s expecting it!
