Earlier this week, thousands of fish washed up at the Quintana Beach County Park on Texas' Gulf Coast, likely due to warming waters, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Kills and Spills team.
I was getting ready to jump off the barge, on to the beach, when a big breaker swept in, lifted the barge, and threw me off balance and smashed me on the sands.
Conservationists in Brazil found one inside the stomach of a penguin after its body washed up on a beach, while a dead pufferfish was discovered caught inside another off the coast of Miami.
Almost 1 million shoes and hundreds of thousands of toothbrushes are among the millions of pieces of plastic waste that have washed up on the beaches of a remote island in the Indian Ocean, a study claims.
Constantly moving is the only thing keeping jellyfish afloat, but even with this effort they can be easily pushed around by strong winds or ocean currents, which is what leads some jellyfish to be washed up on beaches.