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    • These strange creatures aren't supposed to be in northwest, but now they're washing ashore

      By: Ashli Blow, KIRO 7 News digital producer

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      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: TiffanyBoothe/SeasideAquarium.)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: NOAA)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: TiffanyBoothe/SeasideAquarium.)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: Nalia Borges Nichols)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: NOAA.)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: TiffanyBoothe/SeasideAquarium.)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: Nalia Borges Nichols)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: TiffanyBoothe/SeasideAquarium.)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: TiffanyBoothe/SeasideAquarium.)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: NOAA.)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: TiffanyBoothe/SeasideAquarium.)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: NOAA)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: NOAA)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: NOAA)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: NOAA)
      • Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: NOAA)

      When taking a stroll on a northwest beach, a Seattle-area woman vacationing on the Oregon coast found bizarre, tubular, jellylike creatures on the sand.

      “These guys were all over the beach,” Nalia Borges Nichols said. "The ocean seems to introduce me to new creatures or circumstances every so often.”

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      Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: TiffanyBoothe/SeasideAquarium.)

      These animals called pyrosomes – or more simply referred to as “sea pickles" – made headlines over the summer because the tropical-dwelling animals started showing up in unprecedented numbers along the northwest coast this year, as far up as Alaska.

      It's a never-before-seen phenomenon for northwest waters.

      A National Geographic research team’s net pulled up 60,000 in five minutes near Sitka, Alaska, where salmon fishermen had to take a break from their work as the tubular, spineless creatures invaded their hooks.

      Pyrosomes are technically a colony of other small, multicelled organisms called zooids. The colonies vary in size range depending on species. Some reach up to 30 feet in length.

      Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: NOAA.)

      In Oregon, the species washing ashore is Pyrosoma atlanticum, which reaches a maximum size of only 2 feet. Pyrosoma roughly translates into “fire body,” as these strange creatures are known for emitting light through chemical reactions in their bodies.

      Tiffany Boothe, with Oregon’s Seaside Aquarium, took new photos of the animals on the beach Thursday morning. Some were tangled in seaweed, while others lay deflated.

      “They do not wash in during a particular time of year. Anytime they are this far north and close to shore, a west wind will drive them onto the beaches,” she told KIRO 7 News.

      “This is the second winter in a row that we have seen them in masses. So far, though we are seeing a lot, it is no more than what washed ashore last year.”

      Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: TiffanyBoothe/SeasideAquarium.)

      No one knows exactly why they are now in the northwest.

      In the wake of “the blob” that heated up the North Pacific Ocean in recent years, some scientists theorize that the temperature increase made a more hospitable environment for pyrosomes. Sea surface temperatures have recently cooled to average or slightly warmer than average conditions.

      But a big question remains for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers: Was this just an unusual year—a unique phenomenon—or does this reflect a lasting change that could have implications for the food web?

      Pyrosomes filter and ingest tiny plant and animal cells from plankton. While other animals may eat pyrosomes, these creatures may compete with other small grazers that represent more preferable or more nutritious fish prey.

      Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: NOAA)

      At this point, as researchers try to unravel these mysteries during what they call a pyrosome population explosion, there are more questions than answers.

      “We identify everything we catch for both fisheries management and ecological purposes,” said Wayne Palsson, Alaska Fisheries Science Center lead for the Gulf of Alaska survey team. “This is our first encounter with pyrosomes in the Gulf and demonstrates how important these surveys are in monitoring changes over time.”


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      Scientists are trying to figure out why strange sea creatures are showing up in northwest waters. Pyrosomes, also called Sea Pickles, are tropical, filter-feeding and spineless creatures. (Image: TiffanyBoothe/SeasideAquarium.)