Look What Else I Found on the Beach...

Tonight when I walked along the beach, I picked up a broken fishing net, a
lot of plastic bottles, some cigarette lighters, a golf ball, and a lot of
styrofoam. It is sad to see this end up on the beach and to see it floating
on the waves where it can do serious harm to some animals.
Your Friend,
Ron

We Think We Know the Creature's Name!

Dear Ron,
We think we solved the mystery!
Here are the clues:
It is a cousin to a clam & octopus.
It has 8 plates; 2 are smaller.
It is an invertebrate - no backbone.
It is a Mollusk.
The Trumpet Shell is a cousin.
The plates are part of its outer shell.
You called them armor. You gave us another clue in your picture. The Sea Creature
lives near a rocky beach.
Mrs. Newton's Class

The Creature's Habitat

This is the beach where the sea creature lived. It is on Marrowstone Island in western Washington and as you can see, the picture was taken on a very stormy, wet and rainy Northwest Day!

What kind of animals might live in this habitat?
Your friend,
Ron

Another Clue!

Here is a really big Trumpet Shell. I'm sending it to you because it is a distant relative of the mystery sea creature I sent to you. The trumpet is a shell. It is also a snail. It is also a member of a really big group of sea creatures called Mollusks.
One fun thing is that if you carefully hold this trumpet shell next to your ear, you can hear the ocean!!!!!
Your friend, Ron