{"id":360519,"date":"2026-01-09T07:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360519\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:57:07","slug":"mystery-over-mass-stranding-of-thousands-of-starfish-on-edinburgh-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360519\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery over mass stranding of thousands of starfish on Edinburgh beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hannah Foster discovered thousands of the marine invertebrates at Wardie Bay before going for a swim at 08:00 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told BBC Scotland News she was &#8220;shocked&#8221; to make the discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was really sad and bizarre to see them all washed up and tangled in the seaweed, there were so many,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was so cold last night that half of them were all frozen and dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We did a short swim and took some with us that looked like they still had colour in a bid to save them, I don&#8217;t know if it would have done anything but you always have to try in these situations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A local who has lived near the bay for the last five years said this has only happened once before,  it is not a normal sight,&#8221; the 27-year-old said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hannah Foster discovered thousands of the marine invertebrates at Wardie Bay before going for a swim at 08:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-360519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}