Last week, thousands of tiny blobs of clear gelatinous creatures appeared in the ocean and on the beaches in Assateague and Ocean City, creating quite a stir for the countless visitors to the resort area on the busy holiday weekend. The ocean was thick with them and they washed up on the beaches in great numbers, but while the scope of the outbreak was somewhat rare, it is actually a natural phenomenon that should be enjoyed and not feared.
The creatures are called salps, and they belong to a small category of gelatinous invertebrates generally lumped into a large group called jellyfish.
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It must be global warming, global cooling, climate change or George Bush's fault.
They are delicious breaded & deep fried!
Global warming my butt! Jelly is formed from cool down! Heat turns it liquidy! Lol idk!
you people are dumb...
The reason for jelly fish doing so well in the ocean is due to the dead zones... There are a lot of dead zones for these jellies to thrive... Then since no fish can go into that dead zone, the jellies take over and they happen to be washing up on shores...
Same thing with those box jellies that can sting you and kill you...
I saw this first-hand in OC last weekend, and thought a whale had been given a happy-ending.
This is from global poultry warming.
I'm sorry I didn't focus on the habitat of jelly fish in my life. I got real things to worry/learn about in life. Your the smartest idiot I know 3:15!
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