Kylie Morman was left baffled after she came across the large tree log covered in curious shell creatures during a morning walk at Bay of Plenty.
Beachgoers were shocked to discover an “alien” log washed up on a popular beach in New Zealand last week.
Kylie Morman was left baffled after she came across the large tree log covered in curious shell creatures during a morning walk at Bay of Plenty, on the northern coast of New Zealand’s North Island, on May 7. it had “wormlike tentacles and living creatures in the shells.”Wilma Blom, marine invertebrate curator at Auckland Museum, confirmed these were gooseneck barnacles, “probably Lepas anatifera.
Kylie Morman came across a large tree log covered in curious shell creatures during a morning walk at Bay of Plenty.“Yes, they are eaten, particularly by Mediterranean cultures. However, I have never eaten them myself,” she told the publication. They are commonly known as the ‘pelagic gooseneck barnacle’ or ‘smooth gooseneck barnacle’ and are a species of barnacle in the family Lepadidae.
And the reason they have attached themselves to a log is because they’re often found in large numbers, attached by their flexible stalks to floating timber, the hulls of ships, piers, pilings, seaweed, and various sorts of flotsam, according to
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