Whats This Jelly Bagel Thing Washed Up on Beach

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I took this photo in February of something that washed up on the beach. It looks kind of like a jelly fish but with no tentacles. Possibly it's a jelly bagel :)
It was about 10cm or so across.

Anyone got any clues on what this is? I wasn't game to touch it.

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Category:Animals

Location:Australia-NSW

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Georgie Sep 6 2008

Content Date:During February of 2008

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unfaithful Nov 17 2008

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ha ha good one comicbookguy!! i too think strange jelly creatures will take over the world, but mine look more like jelly babies than bagels!!

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Mark Sep 18 2008

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Ok I've got it on good authority from a zoologist that this is an egg sack from a type of sand snail.

Probably either the Conical Sand Snail "Polinices conicus" or the Sordid Sand Snail "Polinices sordidus".

The jelly is filled with hundreds of tiny eggs which are hard to make out.

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Comicbookguy Sep 15 2008

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It's rather Sci fi. Like a transparent alien worm parasite dumped in the oceans and now surfacing to take over the world!

I blame global warming for hatching these things.

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Georgie Sep 15 2008

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This wasn't the only one of these that was washed up on the same beach, there were heaps of them. I only took a photo of this one as it looked the weirdest.

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AskAngela Sep 9 2008

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There's no sign of any organs inside it as far as I can see, maybe it's not even an animal at all.

Where's George Costanza marine biologist when you need him?

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PiratePete Sep 9 2008

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