Worms

I had never seen these sea creatures before. They are amazing. Does anyone know what they are called?
Thanks for your visits, comments , suggestions, favs

[Taffy]

No idea what they are but it's quite an intriguing scene -- like a gigantic pasta dish being served on sand!

[Maggiemae]

How very weird - certainly doesn't look like seaweed!

[Linda Godwin]

muscles attached to the sea grass

[Jane Pittenger]

@rontu nope. Just learned that they are called tube worms and they just look like mussels

[Milanie]

What a neat find - and so nice and clear

[Rick]

Cool capture. Have seen similar shells like that, but didn't have the trailing worms attached.

[Monique]

I agree with Taffy, pasta marinara 😉
Beautiful colour combination sand/pasta/shells

[Diana]

What an amazing find and shot, something very new to me.

[Lynda McG]

Interesting find!

[Babs]

No idea, but a great find.

[Margo]

Never seen these before

[Joan Robillard]

Interesting

[Jennifer Eurell]

I think they are some sort of goose barnacle.

[Etienne]

Hi Jane, I confirm that it is a kind of goose barnacle. I happen to be quite familiar with this animal, as there are regular strandings on the beach where I live. In French, we have a specific word ("anatife") to distinguish the species that lives on floating stuff and gets stranded on beaches (it is not very good to eat), from a different species ("pouce-pied") that lives attached to the rocks and needs to get harvested (it is delicious to eat). Curiously, it seems that the English language has only one single word ("goose barnacle") to designate both species, at least I have not found any distinction when googling in English. It might simply be because eating neither species would be in the English culture, and so there is no need for two different words, I do not know.

[Jane Pittenger]

@etienne fascinating. Thanks so much. I’d love to try pouce -pied

[Rob Z]

How weird - your excellent shot lets us see goose barnacles!! How good is that!