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

by hand. In reality, the tides, currents, sediment, and seabed completed the work naturally.

How Loose Mud Becomes a Smooth Sphere

The creation of a mudball begins when a piece of soft sediment breaks away from an underwater bank. The original fragment may be uneven, fragile, and far from spherical.

As the water pushes it along the bottom, the fragment continue reading …