Chris Packham had the very best response for someone hoping to identify this (NSFW) ‘jellyfish’
One of the great joys of walking along a beach is that you never know what you’ll find. What gifts will the tide bring ashore? A foreign shampoo bottle? A dead whale? A message in a bottle?
Twitter user Joe was enjoying a stroll along a Cornish beach when he spotted an unusual ‘jellyfish’ which he was unable to identify.
Who better to turn to than Springwatch presenter and expert of the natural world, Chris Packham? Picture is a little NSFW…
Hi @ChrisGPackham , not sure if you’re an expert in jellyfish but I’ve just seen this on Perranporth Beach, Cornwall and I was wondering if you could identify it? pic.twitter.com/k99giPAbdm
— Joe (@Brikka49) October 6, 2023
And hats off to Chris Packham who was only too happy to help identify the beast…
What an extraordinary find @Brikka49 . It’s a Megaphallus.plasticus . Unfortunately dead but rigor mortis has set in and rather than flopping uselessly on the pebbles it’s still remarkably turgid . Superb !
— Chris Packham (@ChrisGPackham) October 6, 2023
Boom.
I can hear this in your voice
— mooooog (@glowypanda) October 7, 2023
He wasn’t the only person to reply, as you might imagine.
There’s a starfish round the other side
— Sturgeon’s Piles (@SturgeonsPiles) October 6, 2023
I daren't touch it in case poison comes out of the tentacle
— Joe (@Brikka49) October 6, 2023
That's the Portuguese Man of Phwoar..
— Anthony (@funstuff1972) October 6, 2023
Drift Wood
— James (@James68925310) October 6, 2023
And finally…
Not quite the uprising he envisaged
— SäbbäT (@Sc0ttsapp) October 6, 2023
Source @ChrisGPackham