Floating Worm-like Kelp Plant (Ecklonia maxima)

            Look like strange sea creatures but actually the stems of inanimate worm-ike kelp plants. Kelps are large brown algae or seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales.  Kelp grows in "underwater forests" (kelp forests) in shallow oceans. Kelps were previously thought to have appeared in the Miocene, 5 to 23 million years ago, based on fossils from California.  New fossils of kelp holdfasts from early Oligocene rocks in Washington State show that kelps were present in the northeastern Pacific Ocean by at least 32 million years ago.

These kelp plant stems seen and photographed along the Pacific Ocean coastline at Princeton in central California.

Taken in: United States / California / Princeton (show map)

Taken on: December 20, 2024

Tags:

kelp

Laminariales

plant

Pacific Coast

algae

Princeton-by-the-Sea

Oligocene

ocean

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Sets appears in: • Pacific Shores

Groups appears in: • Sea & Ocean ( invite your contacts ) • Seaside

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