{"id":768525,"date":"2026-09-12T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768525\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:10:10","slug":"earnse-bay-sea-urchin-mistaken-for-washed-up-body-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768525\/","title":{"rendered":"Earnse Bay: Sea urchin mistaken for washed up body part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Furness Coastguard and Cumbria Police were alerted to the potential discovery on Friday evening (September 11) with a search carried out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The informant had placed a washed up traffic cone next to the item to help emergency services locate it, and it was ultimately decided that the &#8216;body part&#8217; was in fact either Sea Pork or a Sea Potato, both forms of sea urchin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>It ultimately turned out to be a sea urchin (Image: Furness Coastguard)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson from Furness Coastguard said: &#8220;The team agreed that the item was not a knee cap as originally reported and the police agreed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We would like to thank the informant for raising their concerns and placing a marker next to the item.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;If a traffic cone is not available, please download the What3Words app and this will give you a location accurate to a meter square.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Furness Coastguard and Cumbria Police were alerted to the potential discovery on Friday evening (September 11) with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-768525","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\/768525","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=768525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}