What is the brain looking thing on the beach?
What is the brain looking thing on the beach? The name for these organ-like creatures is appropriately gross: sea pork. Yes, really. Despite their unfortunate appearance, sea pork, or tunicates, are considered one of the most evolved of all marine invertebrates.
What are the blobs on the beach in Florida?
Sargassum is a species of large brown seaweed, a type of macroalgae that floats in large masses. On some beaches in Florida, the blobs of crunchy, dry, brown stinky seaweed are fairly large. In one of our photo galleries below, you'll see a small mountain of sargassum seaweed, and a black dog posing next to it.