{"id":657335,"date":"2025-12-27T06:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657335\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T06:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:48:15","slug":"hundreds-of-starfish-found-washed-up-on-margate-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657335\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of starfish found washed up on Margate beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hundreds of dead starfish have been found washed up on beaches.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The animals were discovered by dog walkers on Margate Main Sands and at St Mildred&#8217;s Bay Westgate in Kent, on Boxing Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency (EA) said it was due to sea conditions and a strong wind on Christmas Eve which pulled the starfish off the chalk reef and on to the beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An EA spokesperson said: &#8220;Creatures like starfish, mussels, crabs and razor clams occupy rocky habitats. Unfortunately, they can be easily dislodged during unsettled weather, onshore winds or spring tides, causing them to be washed ashore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of dead starfish have been found washed up on beaches. The animals were discovered by dog walkers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-657335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115790197786928480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}