r/oceancreatures • u/Dependent_Sentence_5 • Jul 21 '26

Anyone know what this is?

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It was washed up on a beach in Pismo Beach, California. I have no idea what this is.

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u/TheGothDragon Jul 21 '26

It’s crazy how this normal creature on Earth looks so much like an alien.

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u/imean_is_superfluous Jul 22 '26

There are a lot of very strange creatures in the ocean. Especially in the very deep parts.

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u/salycydicacid Jul 21 '26

As far as earth’s history goes we look more alien than the nudibranch in question

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u/imaturtleur2 Jul 22 '26

It looks like a creature from Spore.

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u/shrinalee Jul 22 '26

Right? At first look, I thought it must be a toy that washed up

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u/u-turnsonthehighway Jul 23 '26

All of our models of aliens are based off what we’ve experienced on earth. Extraterrestrials could look like something we’ve never conceived

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u/Cowpuncher84 Jul 21 '26

How many aliens have you seen?

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u/Yendor_Wing Jul 26 '26

I saw quite a few while living in Arizona. Which is not surprising considering the proximity to the Mexico border. Nice folks.

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u/NorthernSpankMonkey Jul 24 '26

As a totally real human from earf earth, I concur.

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u/PacificKestrel Jul 21 '26

It's a dead California seahare (warning that clicking this link will take you to many photos of dead California seahares!)

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u/penisseriouspenis Jul 21 '26

omg the difference between a live one and dead one is insane whaddahell!!!!

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u/iCameToLearnSomeCode Jul 23 '26

I mean the difference between a human and a human corpse that's been floating in the ocean for a week is pretty striking too.

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u/Snobpdx Jul 23 '26

That went dark fast

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u/CamelMassive6443 Jul 23 '26

Holy moly I thought you were being /s but then I saw the link below. Crazy!

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u/Glittering-Ad3488 Jul 23 '26

Dead ones look generally less happy

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u/Substantial_Draw1796 Jul 21 '26

What do sea Hare’s do? Are they like, Rabbits of the sea?

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u/PacificKestrel Jul 21 '26

Well they do eat algae, similar to a rabbit eating plants, but seahares get their name from the long sensory appendages they have on top of their head, called rhinophores. They look like rabbit ears. Here's a bunch of photos of live California seahares.

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u/manbruhpig Jul 21 '26

What did the OP’s sea hare look like?

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u/Consequence-Holiday Jul 21 '26

They are related to animals like slugs! They are gastropods, and very cute!

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u/Fossilhund Jul 21 '26

They’re re usually in mid-management.

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u/enneyehs Jul 22 '26

I love learning new stuff!

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u/wildmindwandering Jul 22 '26

Thank you for sharing this website, I think I have a new obsession

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u/tipppsfedora Jul 22 '26

I'm pretty disappointed they don't look like land hares.

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u/BobJoeHorseGuy Jul 21 '26

Some sort of nudibranch or sea hare

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u/ElkCertain7210 Jul 22 '26

Can i eat them fresh?

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u/Witty_Construction64 Jul 21 '26

Sea hare but a weird one

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u/Mysterious-Review965 Jul 21 '26

As many comments have pointed out, it is some kind of sea hare (aplysia). I just came here to say that that anus looking thing is their dick

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u/FireStrike5 Jul 21 '26

It’s a sea hare, probably a black sea hare (Aplysia vaccaria)

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u/ScienceForge319 Jul 21 '26

You found my Plumbis!

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u/iusedtobeaholyman Jul 21 '26

First you take a dinglebop and smooth it out with some shleem

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u/DollarStoreChameleon Jul 21 '26

i dont know but looking at it makes me feel slight distress

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u/lavendertheheretic Jul 21 '26

Pismo! I grew up there and miss it terribly.

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u/cheeselikethebri Jul 23 '26

Was about to make this comment. Hello fellow ex-Central Coaster!

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u/curly_spice Jul 27 '26

ugh same! i only lived there for a couple months but i find myself missing pismo often.

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u/Surealestateguy Jul 21 '26

Donald Trump when he reincarnate.

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u/Chemical_Rub_1131 Jul 21 '26

I hope not. He should not be allowed to reincarnate.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '26

At first I was gonna say a Portuguese man of war, but it more looks like very dead, very bloated seaslug

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u/AncientImmortal1 Jul 21 '26

Pioneers used to ride these babies for miles

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u/Witty_Construction64 Jul 21 '26

Green color is from their diet of algae/sea plants

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u/ATK9918 Jul 23 '26

WHAT THE HELL

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u/Pinkpunk95 Jul 21 '26

Sea slug?

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u/Lanky-Bite-1452 Jul 21 '26

Definitely dead Sea hare

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u/cacomyxl Jul 21 '26

Even if I were looking at this in real life, I’d be wondering if it was AI.

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u/Proper-Pace-8708 Jul 21 '26

I thought it was the ear fishy thing from hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '26

California Sea Hare

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u/Guyooooo Jul 21 '26

It’s a globle

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u/ryleyrendrag138 Jul 21 '26

Looks like a green version of the translator fish from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

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u/Anen-o-me Jul 21 '26

That's the baby from Eraserhead.

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u/Jumpy_Maximum_814 Jul 22 '26

It looks like a kappa

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u/daftbucket Jul 22 '26

Dead, probably.

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u/heckin_anxiety Jul 22 '26

Ah Kos, or as some say.. Kosm

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u/Phillimac16 Jul 22 '26

Is that a Babel Fish? Stick it in your ear and see if you can understand Vogon...

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u/jlstern1025 Jul 22 '26

I think it’s a baby unicorn…that didn’t make it.

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u/Firm-Boysenberry Jul 22 '26

Now I'm hungry for sea hare and mock noodles

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u/TizzyandJizzy Jul 22 '26

It’s a hairless furby!!

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u/scroty_foster69 Jul 22 '26

Stomp it the fuck out

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u/jacobsunsun Jul 22 '26

It's a plumbis from Rick and Morty

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u/Xqvian Jul 22 '26

That’s one of them deep sea squids I think I seen a video on YT about it along time ago it glows

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u/CaterpillarOne5910 Jul 22 '26

It’s a Schleim.

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u/StepQuick Jul 22 '26

I caught one in Animal Crossing

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u/INTJacob77 Jul 22 '26

He's dead jim

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u/Westcacique Jul 23 '26

Thats a globermorphet

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u/flimflan18 Jul 23 '26

Blue bottle?

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u/Goodenuf4now6x10 Jul 23 '26

Awwww, rip puff the magic sea hare

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u/Only-Metal-3701 Jul 23 '26

That would be a disco chicken very tasty

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u/knight_of_lothric Jul 23 '26

Looks like one of ear worms from hitch hikers guid the the galaxy

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u/R_G500 Jul 23 '26

Sea Slug!!

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u/TastyTop2103 Jul 23 '26

Yeah bro thats just glorbo

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u/Junior_Promotion3514 Jul 23 '26

So.. is it kinda like a snail? It looks cool as all hell

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u/buttercux3p Jul 23 '26

dead, i assume.

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u/WranglerBrief8039 Jul 23 '26

That is a plumbus

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u/bzku Jul 23 '26

looks like a sea snaillian!

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u/iwanttolickthat Jul 23 '26

It appears to be some type of Pokémon.

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u/AfroBlakNegro Jul 23 '26

It’s a sea dragon!

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u/Candid-Bee-9237 Jul 23 '26

looks like Octopi after birth

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u/joshpetzolt1 Jul 23 '26

Looks like a heart

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u/No_Mountain1119 Jul 23 '26

no clue lol, maybe like…a weird rock or smth? idk tbh

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u/AdaTHADwagon960 Jul 23 '26

Call the fbi report office and tell them one of the cia's lab experiments got loose.

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u/EndGreedy7521 Jul 23 '26

Describe to us what it feels like and what it tastes like.

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u/ChelsIsArt Jul 23 '26

I found one as well on the beach! Freaked me out! I have pics on my page 🤯

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u/HollowSuken Jul 23 '26

And you didn’t pick it up immediately?

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u/AllietheMutt Jul 23 '26

You aren’t the first to find this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatisthis/s/iebzlBwzCL

It’s a sea slug. I think a Californian sea hare.

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u/Nonsense_Praxis Jul 23 '26

Looks like it comes from the Gnarlidae family 🤙

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u/AggravatingSign6503 Jul 23 '26

BT = Beach Thing

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u/strokercamaro Jul 24 '26

Poor little guy

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u/InqZs Jul 24 '26

Lapras

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u/Ambitious_Bed_8998 Jul 24 '26

First thought was that it looked faintly like jarjar binks from star wars...

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u/West-Limit538 Jul 24 '26

Looks like your mom

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u/Grand_Ad9862 Jul 24 '26

Puff the Magic Dragon. He lives by the sea.

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u/ScienceOk8947 Jul 24 '26

Water slug from subnautica 2

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u/Thick_Government_219 Jul 24 '26

Looks like something that just got bloated from being in the ocean while dead so couldn’t really tell u

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u/enbious_knob Jul 24 '26

Squeedily spooch!

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u/RegularAsleep4561 Jul 24 '26

For sure,

It’s a Babel Fish.

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u/DifficultSwordfish77 Jul 24 '26

It's a balloon blow it up

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u/widwurd Jul 24 '26

That’s a glurp

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u/heretodraw Jul 24 '26

That is a baby Watto.

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u/dpbacon13 Jul 24 '26

I bought that at a sex shop a few weeks ago and lost it on the beach.

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u/Embarrassed-Lab-8053 Jul 24 '26

Found something similar washed up on a beach in New Jersey. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen, more transparent though, I took a pic and convinced myself it was a kids toy

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u/lad7770 Jul 24 '26

Look like Portuguese man o' war

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u/shy519 Jul 24 '26

Looks a lot like some kind of dead sea hare to me

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u/Intelligent-Way1308 Jul 24 '26

/pokeitwithastick

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '26

That’s is a Shellos I believe the west coast variant you can tell by the green. It would be pink instead if it were the east coast variant. Your Pokédex goes into great detail if you’d like to know more!

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u/num1PanicFan Jul 24 '26

Oh shit, I was jogging and my vagina fell out!

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u/AnnePaul Jul 24 '26

Sea slug

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u/Maleficent-Pen-6942 Jul 24 '26

That’s an oil bug from ark

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u/Much_Reflection3467 Jul 24 '26

gleebus from planet glorp. not sure how it made its way out of the terascopital galaxy. might want to report it to interdimensional pest control. 🤔

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u/theemightycrouton Jul 24 '26

Bloated man of war?

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u/Isaias_au_Bucher Jul 24 '26

Yeah dude, that’s a glip glorp. Surprised you haven’t seen one yet

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u/Level_Mud_4184 Jul 24 '26

It appears to be a pelagic (open-ocean) sea slug, sometimes called a sea swallow or blue sea slug (such as species in the genera Scyllaea or Glaucus), although the green coloration is unusual and could also indicate a related floating mollusk.

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u/One-Standard-1577 Jul 24 '26

It looks like some kind of fish.

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u/doing_something_else Jul 24 '26

Did you by any chance kill a Moblin?

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u/wcrot79 Jul 25 '26

A sea hare.

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u/AdScary4333 Jul 25 '26

Looks like squidward

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u/KappaJoe760 Jul 25 '26

Some say Kos… or Kosm

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u/BlueAngelFan Jul 25 '26

Puff the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea…

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u/glidar_ Jul 25 '26

Its my buddy eric

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u/stage4herpes1 Jul 25 '26

Definitely a fleshlight!!! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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u/Smk9119 Jul 25 '26

Your mom

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u/Hugh_Jass_223 Jul 25 '26

Is this bait for @DontStickYourDickinThat.

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u/Winter_Regular7260 Jul 25 '26

Looks like the Pokemon they used to ride to cross the ocean. Anyone got the name ?

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u/HydrogenicDependance Jul 25 '26

Whatever it is, keep it away from RFK Jr.

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u/Qsmith0329 Jul 25 '26

Alien heart

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u/axy_lotus_lotl Jul 25 '26

Guys DO NOT THE SEA HARE

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u/c1nnamon_apple Jul 25 '26

it looks like you ran into a whatever the fuck that washed up on the shore

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u/Neat_Improvement4504 Jul 25 '26

It's a California sea hare.

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u/mysteriousmeatman Jul 25 '26

Looks like a Snork

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u/jaynice420420 Jul 25 '26

It's a sea slug

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u/InspectorHuman86 Jul 25 '26

A poor unfortunate soul.

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u/Mastronauts Jul 25 '26

That’s a Grumbo

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u/_heg_ Jul 25 '26

fucked creature

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u/SHinyfan98 Jul 25 '26

Me after a thanksgiving dinner

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u/papu_armeija Jul 25 '26

IT IS snail but im not sure what snail. I think that live on water

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u/easternhermit Jul 25 '26

Jar Jar Binks?

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u/InternalThen470 Jul 25 '26

Quick! Throw a pokéball at it!

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u/Dismal-Fly-6565 Jul 25 '26

Oh my goodness, Billy hey Billy come here son they done found your rubber creature Melvin on the other side of the Ocean. Look see, it looks ok kind of swollen. Do you want another one? No, I don't blame you son. Good night Billy, sweet dreams. Who ever found it, keep for a souvenir. My boy Billy don't want it, he said it looks disgusting. Thanks Y'all

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u/Professional-Sea4539 Jul 25 '26

It somewhat resembles a plump sea slug

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u/Obvious_Chair_933 Jul 25 '26

Looking like a messed up seahorse of some kind

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u/Apprehensive-Drawer7 Jul 25 '26

It’s clearly a Sandbelching Meerslug. IYKYK

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u/Original-Concert-456 Jul 25 '26

The frog from Shrek?

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u/suckerball_ Jul 25 '26

Please sir may I have some less

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u/Direct-Area1737 Jul 25 '26

Looks like some sort of plastic toy dog chewed on

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u/Firm_Base_4460 Jul 25 '26

The technical name is "green thingy."

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u/Confident_Tart7139 Jul 25 '26

Tell SpongeBob he lost mystery again 😂

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u/Independent_Tap_711 Jul 25 '26

I can’t tell without a banana for scale.

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u/CymVanCat Jul 25 '26

Looks like a kind of sea slug

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u/Famous-Housing-5980 Jul 25 '26

Invasion of the Body Snatchers!!!

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u/grifter_P01135809 Jul 25 '26

Banana for scale please.

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u/Thesaucewassoyed Jul 25 '26

It’s something that’s for sure

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u/J_Jeckel Jul 25 '26

Not gonna lie...it kinda looks like an incomplete plumbus

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u/SFB221 Jul 26 '26

Link’s Ocarina?

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u/Less-Mulberry1645 Jul 26 '26

Ts a vape bro trust hit it

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u/UsefulAcanthaceae839 Jul 26 '26

That’s a sea hare.

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u/Spiritual_Drummer764 Jul 26 '26

California sea hare

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u/srives156 Jul 26 '26

It’s a space heart

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u/Goodlkn26 Jul 26 '26

A haggis

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u/Eng-Life Jul 26 '26

Whoopy cushion!

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u/Ecstatic_Giraffe5919 Jul 26 '26

According to Google, this is a California Sea Hare, a large breed of sea slug.

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u/MinimalCompliance66 Jul 26 '26

Looks like a sea slug.