Washing up on our shores this week, we found small patches of fresh sargassum seaweed, large lightning whelksòòò½ÊÓƵ”which happen to be the Texas state shellòòò½ÊÓƵ”and a fascinating little creature known as the sargassum nudibranch.

Washing up on our shores this week, we found small patches of fresh sargassum seaweed, large lightning whelksòòò½ÊÓƵ”which happen to be the Texas state shellòòò½ÊÓƵ”and a fascinating little creature known as the sargassum nudibranch.

During the extreme low tides of February, an unusual marine resident is being spotted in the seagrass beds on the backside of Texasòòò½ÊÓƵ™s barrier islandsòòò½ÊÓƵ”the sea cucumber, or Allothyone mexicana.