It was a mystery. These strange, tropical organisms showed up en masse, clogging nets and intriguing scientists. “I had to look up pyrosomes for the first time. I had seen one once way off shore and ...

Around five years ago, scientists surveying the coast off Oregon and Washington found something odd: Pickle-shaped sea creatures. It was a mystery. These strange, tropical organisms showed up en masse ...

Sometime after 2014 — no one can say exactly when — scientists started getting reports of a mysterious sea creature showing up on Oregon beaches. And not just a few either — these things were showing ...

People at the Oregon coast recently have been finding strange, semi-translucent objects that kind of look like pickles washed up on the shore, leaving them flabbergasted. “There are dozens of these on ...