The long, gelatinous blob puzzled a California paddleboarder when he first came across it. He later found out it’s a sea salp measuring 2 to 3 feet long.
Southern California paddleboarder Bill Clements was 3 miles offshore when he spotted something that looked more like a see-through floating spine than an actual animal.
Though Clements had no idea whether the creature would sting him, he said, he couldn't resist grabbing it out of a mixture of"blind curiosity and a lot of impulsivity.", Clements wrote that he came across a"strange creature on the water today!" Sea salps also eat using jet propulsion, consuming microscopic plants known as phytoplankton as they pump water through their bodies, the journal says.
Sea salps are most commonly found in equatorial, temperate and cold seas, and the most abundant concentrations of the creatures are in the Antarctic Ocean, according to the Australian Museum.
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