Pyrosomes on the Oregon Coast
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Published 2016-12-24
A pyrosome tube! I say something about a "mouth" in the video but that was before I knew what it was.
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All Comments (21)
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I think pyrosomes are small and hard when the colony is small and young as it ages it lengthens thickens and becomes a glowing gelatin colony
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Down in Southern California, I was snorkeling in the channel islands and there were millions of these guys everywhere! I was with a whole bunch of marine biologists, and none of them knew why they were there.
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They look like transparent pickles
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Pyrosomes, genus Pyrosoma, are free-floating colonial tunicates that usually live in the upper layers of the open ocean in warm seas, although some may be found at greater depths. Pyrosomes are cylindrical or cone-shaped colonies up to 18 m long, made up of hundreds to thousands of individuals, known as zooids.
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Thanks for sharing. There is a story today on National Geographic news about this phenomena.
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Hi Ami, I am with weather.com, my apologies if my colleague also reached out, I was wondering if we could use your Pyrosome video on our platforms? Gladly give you all the credit. Thanks, Dan
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You should have a radio show
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Those things looks like a very tiny water bottle. I wonder if I can drink out of those creature things. 😂😂
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Commenting here, because I found them on the beach today at dockweiler state beach, CA and saw many of those. I didn’t know what they were and, well, here I am finding out what they are.
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A very interesting finding. It was threw out onto the sea coast with the wawes after a storm. Sometimes wawes are been throwing out not such else... BfK. ⭐🐛⭐🐛⭐
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They glow in the dark
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Wow I have never seen a baby pyrosome
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Wow thank you
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Vernal pools in Sacramento County have these critters....jelly fish, half dollar sized bi valve shell things, all fresh water and seasonal...now dead under the progress of apartments. I never knew what these things were until now, thanks. Someone can now put a name to my description of the critters I find that do not exist.
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excellent thanks for posting
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I think it was propably still alive and stored the water to survive...
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Some woman just walks up out of nowhere, “that’s where I left my dildo, thx for finding it”
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Just curious, are they hard or jelly like? Can they be eaten, like sea cucumber?
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Hi Ami, I'm working for a TV show called Strange Evidence and we'd love to use this video. Would you allow us to do so?
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Cool
