While walking along the red sands of a P.E.I. beach, you might notice a little, transparent blob along the shoreline.
No, it’s not a jellyfish or a drop of water. What you might be looking at is a small animal known as a sea gooseberry.
Jeff Clements, an aquatic biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, says the creatures are a type of ctenophores, commonly known as comb jellies.
“They have these long rows of little tiny hairs along their body called ‘cilia’ that continuously and synchronously beat really fast,” Clements said. “When they’re beating, they kind of look like hair combs.”
