Originally published at: Bizarre mystery creature seen swimming in South Carolina waters (video) | Boing Boing
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Seems like a lost squid to me.
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Looks like a sea hare, which is kind of freaking me out because I was quite genuinely just thinking about those things before I came here.
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Username checks out.
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Atlantic black sea hare…+10 points!
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I assume it’s the original owner of these:
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I saw one of these in the Florida Keys once as a kid. Had no idea what it was until about 5/6 years ago. We were told it was nudibranch by a local. I learned a few months later it very definitely wasn’t (but I’ve been obsessed with nudibranchs ever since).
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Initially I was thinking dark-colored Flying Gurnard, but the Atlantic Black Sea Hare sure looks better for this.
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It’s obviously a shoggoth.
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There are about 1717 holothurian species, and while most of them usually hang out near the bottom of deeper water, humans screw with things enough to occasionally drive a critter waaay out of its comfort zone.
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Is anyone here a marine biologist?
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Sorting Hat.
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Needs a banana for scale
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For some reason the article claims sea hares aren’t native to the area, but it really doesn’t seem that unusual for people to see them all along that coast…nudibranchs too for that matter. So I’m confused why it should be such a mystery.
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That’s Code BLUE HADES material, citizen.
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The suggestion of a sea hare seems spot on.
It’s sad that the news—which reaches I presume hundreds of thousands of viewers—wouldn’t able to code close to this suggestion.
I sometimes feel that BB commenters should be running the news outlets fact-checking 
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I thouht it was a Norwegian Blue. Great swimmers your Norwegian Blues. /s
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Well, it isn’t of alien origin; the video is too clear.
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