Thousands of starfish have been found washed up dead on a beach in Kent. A carpet of the dead creatures covered hundreds of yards of the beach at Pegwell Bay near Sandwich. picked by topofall 2 years ago

Mystery today surrounded a giant Lego man which has washed up on a beach after apparently floating all the way from the Netherlands.

Check out the giant's translated site (from Dutch) here. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Apparently, dismantling a dead humpback whale on the beach is a lot harder than it seems. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

This jellyfish is known as the blue bottle, due to its colour and shape when strewn on a beach. The blue bottles tentacles can range up to 10 metres in length! More info here. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Gunnison Beach located on Sandy Hook,NJ is managed by the National Park Service.

It is, by custom, the only nude beach in New Jersey, and one of the major clothing-optional recreation areas in the New York metropolitan area. picked by suebe 3 years ago

Remember the 2000 tons of timber that washed up on the beach in my town? Not entirely unpredictably someone set fire to a load of it. picked by Pocksucket 2 years ago

The Blue Angels at the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virgina Beach VA. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Eco-tourists on a whale-watching vessel, looking forward to observing the mighty creatures in their natural habitat, were instead greeted by the sight of a harpooned whale being dragged in by a Japanese whaling vessel on Friday. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

A 24-foot shark washed ashore on a Long Island beach today, but died a short time later. picked by nateebiinature 5 months ago

It's made of icebergs in Japan, it's blue and it's beer, apparently.

And it says "draft" on the bottle... picked by pocksucket 4 months ago

Blue Whales have been heard singing off the coast of Long Island - a long way from their regular territory. picked by pocksucket 6 months ago

"We don't to panic anyone, but a minion of Satan just washed up on a beach in Montauk, New York. The beast looks a bit like a dog with the sharp beak of an eagle, or possibly a shell-less turtle with the dark eyes of a griffin. Either way, it's definitely a portent of the coming apocalypse." picked by merzbabe 1 year ago

A mysterious 'alien like' creature horrified holidaymakers after it washed up on a beach on the Gower peninsula.

The writhing mass of tentacles, which measured 3ft from end to end, was described by a zoology expert today as 'like something out of Doctor Who'. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Rescuers used jet skis, backhoes and human muscle to save dozens of whales and dolphins stranded on a beach in southern Australia. picked by MandolinOrange 9 months ago

As one of Britain's favourite garden flowers, the Busy Lizzie has bloomed in almost every colour ... except blue. The explorers, botanists Yuan Yong-Ming and Ge Xue-Juan, found a sapphire blue version of the flower while exploring the 16,600ft-deep Namchabarwa Canyon in Tibet four years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A luxury hotel in Dubai is to create the first refrigerated beach so hotel guests can walk comfortably across the sand on scorching days. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Italy opens it's first "women only" beach. The only man allowed is the lifeguard because "you clearly need a man to save a woman in the sea." No chauvinism in this country. picked by gnikgnok 2 years ago

A popular nudist beach in England is to be patrolled by wardens in a bid to curb sexual incidents. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

The disappearance of Waikiki Beach to erosion could cost the tourism industry nearly $2 billion annually in lost visitor spending, trigger more than 6,000 job losses and shrink state tax revenues by about $125 million a year, according to a new report based on surveys with Waikiki visitors. picked by muppet 12 months ago

For most people the beach is a place to relax, especially when visited as part or a holiday. So it seems surprising that on some beaches around the world, artists have been chosen to display some of the creepiest structures known to man that are sure to traumatise the most hardened of tourists, especially at a time when the defenses are down. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago