Wildlife Spotting

looks like oil!

cool

Idid not mean that

wiefd

ooooooooohhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Very interesting! I'm looking forward to the final ID on this!

Laura has been back from the Arctic for a while:-)

Stavro. Laura is an expert on these. She is a marine biologist. I made the Id suggestion on her behalf,since she is busy exploring the Arctics!

Fascinating creatures. Good spot. Thanks for the lesson ladies! :)

Askidia nigra, is a good suggestion :) Everything fits :))

I'm pretty certain this is a tunicate, since I can make out the siphons :) Ascidia nigra is a good ID, as the distribution fits the location! They're hard to ID when they're out of the water like this, haha :D Great spot!

I was comparing the images on the internet and the shape looks very much like " Ascidia nigra " Just a feedback. Wait for expert confirmation.

The tunicate suggestion by Stavros is a good one too. I'll try to bring it to the attention of one on the marine biologists on the rangers team. I'm very much out of my comfort zone here!

I was thinking black sea cucumber, Holothuria leucospilota; but Daniele's suggestion seems quite likely.

Suggestion is very tentative... still, see this image: http://www.siratus.com/article-12317876.html

leeches?!

It must be some sea creature coated in oil .which happens so often. Poor thing!

Peculiar. It does look very much like crude oil. What was it 'doing' that leads you to say it's alive?

Was it in the sea, or near by, like inside the intertidal zone? It might be somekind of ascidians, or nudibranchs..

Nasir is right..a greasy inanimate object perhaps..

Is it alive? Looks like oil blob though...