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mcfez
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Looks more like a sea plant....sort of a like a veggie fruit ...looking at the second picture showing it's end
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Cirio
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Pandanus (Screw Pine) seed or maybe some type of palm?
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David K
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No palms grow along the coast of the upper gulf and the only 'pines' near the beach are salt cedars at Nuevo Mazatlan and others planted for shade at
other campos.
I am wondering if it isn't from a dolphin or whale... like a kidney stone type of discharge?
The post reminds me of when we found whelk's eggs on Shell Island one trip and I asked what it was here on Nomad... 3 miles north of Bahia Santa
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July, 2009:
Sometimes we find things we have never seen before!
This is known as a 'Mermaid's Necklace'. They are whelk eggs. A whelk is a large sea snail.
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Marla Daily
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According to UCSB marine biologist, Shane Anderson:
Hard to tell for sure but my bet is = sea cucumber because the end view that shows the pentaradial or five-sided, symmetry. Some cucs are very
turgid.
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David--Screw Pines are not a true pine but members of the Lily Family---Dracena or Yucca-like:
http://www.google.com/search?q=screw+pine+plant&hl=en&am...
They could be growing along the more tropical eastern parts of the SOC, however I don't think their seed looks like that.....
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Cirio
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Yer right Mexitron - it's not a Screw Pine seed but it reminds me very much of a Date Palm pit (seed) but it's hard to tell the size from the original
pic. I still think it's some kinda seed.
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Cirio, It was about 4-5 inches. Kind of squishy and we found 3 one day at low tide and the next day we saw 2.
Thanks for all the ideas guys. Maybe eventually we will be able to identify it. I might be back down for Memorial Day and if so I will look again
for more.
Does anyone know what causes the little egg looking things in the sand. Referring back to the picture on the first page. Not sure if they are eggs
or what. They are pretty tiny. See those all the time.
Thanks again.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaLori
another view
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It looks closest to a Sea Hare... but not anything exactly like it in my books on the Cortez...
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mcfez
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If you still have it.....why dont you slice in down the middle and see if there are internal organs? Save in submerged in alcohol.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Speaking of preserving in alcohol, it looks like my brain, and about the same size after a night of hard drinking.....just saying.
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