Hi everyone,

I am a scientist from Australia - I am looking for participants for some new research I am doing.

Are you the parent/caregiver of a child aged 2-12 years? If so, we kindly invite you to participate in our short online survey about sharks. We are interested in what children know about sharks, so this survey involves you completing a couple of questions about sharks, and then asking your children some questions about sharks. You will then be asked to write what your children say or what they do (e.g. if they use hand gestures).

LINK TO SURVEY:

https://research.unisa.edu.au/redcap/surveys/?s=XYPHMNMKFEJR7H4P

Please also feel free to send to any one you know who might be interested.

The survey takes approximately ten minutes per child to complete, if you have more than one child aged between 2-12 they can all participate.

This study has received ethics approval from the University of South Australia (#206267). If you have any queries, please contact the lead researcher: Brianna.lebusque@unisa.edu.au

Found this on a beach in connecticut USA, reminds me of a snake skeleton but i have no idea what it is. fascinating!

https://youtu.be/XEDvcQp3nq8?si=UAlAHYgaC5JgearM

There are varying sizes of this deep red, very sticky thing, I don’t know if it is floral or fauna, washing up on the shore in Sea Bright, New Jersey. This one is about the size of a quarter but I saw other examples that were as small as a pea and others in-between. When my friend picked up a smaller piece he said it was very, very sticky and hard to get off his fingers, he kept going back to the ocean to try to wash it off, but his fingers still felt sticky. I touched one with the stem end of a feather and it immediately stuck to it and didn’t come off, no matter how hard I shook it. I know this sounds ridiculous, but it reminded me of “The Blob”. Any idea what this is? The water has been amazingly clean, full of fish, dolphins and whales off the shore all summer so I’m definitely concerned. I figure if Reddit doesn’t know I don’t know who will🤞

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D7SkC1GzZyA

I accidentally picked it up thinking it was a rock but it was squishy! Can’t figure out what it is. Looks like uni. Was found in New Hampshire.

Me and my friend need help finding what crab this is. My friend told me a story about how in southern Italy (Bari) he was on the beaches and found a crab, picking it up it had a brownish base with red sprouts growing out of it. (The brown was a bit darker I just suck at drawing.) Unknowing what it was they took it back home until after a few years later his grandma found one similar to it on the internet, apparently it was a recently found species and they found a crab unknown to science. However, after a few years they forgot the type of crab and now we cannot find any sources of a crab similar to his description. If anybody has anyone has any idea what crab it could be please let us know. He said it looked like a brown crab from the research we did trying to find it but it looked different from the photos online.

What is this? It was washed up on the beach on the Gulf of Mexico

At Ecomare, Netherlands.