Another educational ocean tidbit from the Seaside Aquarium, posted on their Facebook page: “ ... Commonly referred to as sea pickles, pyrosomes are actually colonies of multi-celled animals called ...

These gelatinous and somewhat translucent organisms, called pyrosomes, have been seen congregating, sometimes by the thousands, close to shore from Northern California up to southeast Alaska—clogging ...

From the video, the amorphous blob seems to stretch on for a mile as it snakes through the water, dwarfing the two divers who surround it. For 47-year-old videographer Steve Hathaway, the Oct. 25 ...