15 Creatures Discovered By Fisherman In New Zealand
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A TERROR FROM BEYOND THE ABYSS
One day in December of 2016, a local fisherman was walking down Muriwai beach in Auckland, New Zealand when he stumbled across something straight out of a horror film. Dubbed the “Muriwai Monster”, this tentacle infested behemoth captured the attention of both local residents and the world for a little while, everyone describing its putrid smell and appearance as though made of wriggling worms.
Even though it looks like a class sea monster, it turns out that the Muriwai Monster is just a large piece of driftwood covered in gooseneck barnacles, so called because they attach themselves with a long stalk – called a peduncle – similar to a goose’s neck. As larvae, the barnacle drifts through the ocean and then attaches itself to rocks or driftwood using a super-strong biological cement and then filter food from the current.
A TERROR FROM BEYOND THE ABYSS
One day in December of 2016, a local fisherman was walking down Muriwai beach in Auckland, New Zealand when he stumbled across something straight out of a horror film. Dubbed the “Muriwai Monster”, this tentacle infested behemoth captured the attention of both local residents and the world for a little while, everyone describing its putrid smell and appearance as though made of wriggling worms.
Even though it looks like a class sea monster, it turns out that the Muriwai Monster is just a large piece of driftwood covered in gooseneck barnacles, so called because they attach themselves with a long stalk – called a peduncle – similar to a goose’s neck. As larvae, the barnacle drifts through the ocean and then attaches itself to rocks or driftwood using a super-strong biological cement and then filter food from the current.
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15 February 2023
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