Beach Mystery Solved: What Are These Weird Balls Kids Keep Finding on Pensacola Shores?

formed through movement beneath the surface of the bay.

What the Mysterious Objects Really Are

The rounded objects are made from soft, clay-rich sediment found along underwater mud banks in Pensacola Bay.

Small pieces of this sediment can separate from the larger banks. Once loose, they begin moving across the seabed under the steady influence of tides continue reading …