Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Mermaid's Purse


OK, so it's not really a mermaid's purse. Or the devil's purse. What it is is an egg case for a skate. And a skate is a fish, more specifically a ray. The egg cases can be found on the beach, usually empty. The hooks are so that it attaches itself to seaweed and doesn't float away.

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