Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When beachgoers say there's a brown blob of seaweed floating in the ocean, they really mean it. At least that's what a recent ...

A multi-disciplinary team of scientists have made significant progress in understanding the origins of the mysterious black balls washing ashore on Sydney beaches. A few weeks ago, thousands of sticky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve been to a beach in the Grand Strand lately, you might have noticed thousands of little clear blobs scattered across the ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Dozens of tar blobs started washing up on Cocoa Beach Tuesday. Only laboratory tests can confirm if they came from the disaster in the Gulf, but Brevard County's emergency ...

Sargassum rots after it washes ashore and produces hydrogen sulfide gas, which smells like rotten eggs and can irritate your eyes, nose and throat The seaweed has existed for centuries, but climate ...

Over a month after the substance began appearing on the southern shores of Newfoundland, a federal agency is still investigating. By Alan Yuhas On an ordinary day, beachcombers roaming the rocky ...

There’s a long history of weird things washing up on shores worldwide, from a bag of severed human hands in Russia to LEGO bricks in the UK. Now, Canadians are finding strange white blobs across their ...

“An ocean without unnamed monsters,” wrote John Steinbeck, “would be like sleep without dreams.” But the dream that a new species of sea monster washed up in Chile in 2003 is over. Marine biologists ...

On some beaches in Florida, the "blobs" of crunchy, dry, brown stinky seaweed range. Some are fairly large When is "seaweed season?" Sargassum usually appears in Florida beaches in the spring, with a ...