# Shark..um..Feces..

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-um-feces/58684>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 20, 2001, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-um-feces/58684 "2001-03-20T06:33:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![RAWisSYDNEY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4491bb/32.png) [@RAWisSYDNEY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWisSYDNEY)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-um-feces/58684/1 "2001-03-20T06:33:44Z")

</div>

My friend says that the jelly stuff you find on a beach is shark feces.

I say that they are jelly fish.

who is right?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shark-um-feces/58684/2 "2001-03-20T06:38:39Z")

</div>

You are…sort of.  
A true jellyfish is the kind with the bowl and stinging tentacles underneath.  
I assume you are taking about those dollops of jelly the size of the palm of your hand…those creatures ate technically called SALPS; they don’t sting.