{"id":489382,"date":"2026-03-22T14:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489382\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:16:15","slug":"bits-of-rubber-on-cornish-beaches-are-left-by-predatory-snails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489382\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits of &#8216;rubber&#8217; on Cornish beaches are left by predatory snails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Slater said moon or necklance shells were native to the UK. They are large round snails, about an inch across, which live on soft sandy seabeds all around Cornwall&#8217;s coastline. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said they were a predatory creature which feasted on other molluscs like clams and mussels, using a kind of teeth and enzymes to break through their shells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The strange thing is this incredible structure they create to embed their eggs,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s actually a sort of a mucus structure that gets lots of sand stuck in it and it looks kind of like plastic and that&#8217;s why people have been getting a bit confused when they&#8217;ve seen these things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It might have been a really good year for this particular species. We often see a few of these washing up after storms, but we&#8217;ve had reports of quite large numbers [this year].&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slater said moon or necklance shells were native to the UK. They are large round snails, about an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-489382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489382","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=489382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}