Sargassum seaweed on the beach at Puerto Morelos Yucatan Peninsula Mexico

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Sargassum is a brown seaweed with buoyant, oxygen-filled bladders that keep it floating on the surface of the water. It can clump together in huge masses, often miles long, and has been known to wash up on the shores of beaches along the Caribbean coast from the United States all the way to Argentina.

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Size: 6026px × 4136px
Location: Puerto Morelos Yucatan Peninsula Mexico
Photo credit: © Neil Setchfield / Alamy / Afripics
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