A bunch of weird animals washed up dead across the globe in 2022. Here are our favorites.
Every year the remains of bizarre ocean creatures wash ashore on beaches across the globe, revealing clues about the lives of some of the most elusive and mysterious creatures on Earth. And 2022 was no different. From white whales and giant squids to tiny penguins and swarms of jellyfish, here are some of our favorites.
Earlier this year, another possibly leucistic white humpback was spotted swimming with dolphins in New South Wales, Australia.Half-eaten giant squid One of the deep sea's most elusive and spectacular creatures, the giant squid , astonished a group of tourists after it washed up with half-eaten tentacles on a beach in New Zealand.
The massive stomach sacks were discovered by Cornwall resident Helen Marlow while she was walking her dog on Marazion Beach. The seaweed-covered lump appeared to be one singular object with no noticeable tears and did not give off any pungent rotting smells."I couldn't bring myself to touch it, but I did try to move it with my boot and, as I did, it wobbled a bit like a big, fat jelly," Marlow told Live Science.
Read more: Hundreds of the world's smallest penguins have mysteriously washed up dead. What killed them? Despite being fairly common in U.K. waters, sightings of thresher sharks are very rare because they live deep below the surface. Adult threshers can grow to be 20 feet long, but most of that length is due to their long, crescent-shaped tails, which they whip through the water to stun their prey.Mysterious beaked whale The corpse of a mysterious beaked whale washed up on a Northern California beach with unusual wounds on its face and scrape marks all over its body.
The"jellyfish jamboree" was spotted by park rangers from the Cape Hatteras National Seashore along the northern edge of Ocracoke Island, part of a chain of islands that makes up the Outer Banks.
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