{"id":30454,"date":"2026-10-05T10:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/05\/these-fingernail-sized-animals-are-moving-astonishing-amounts-of-california-beach-sand\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:19:16","slug":"these-fingernail-sized-animals-are-moving-astonishing-amounts-of-california-beach-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/05\/these-fingernail-sized-animals-are-moving-astonishing-amounts-of-california-beach-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"These Fingernail-Sized Animals Are Moving Astonishing Amounts of California Beach Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/these-fingernail-sized-animals-are-moving-astonishing-amounts-of-california-beach-sand\/\" title=\"These Fingernail-Sized Animals Are Moving Astonishing Amounts of California Beach Sand\"><\/a>A California beach can be reshaped overnight by creatures barely the size of a fingernail, with sand hoppers digging up to 110 pounds of sand per meter of shoreline each day. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara found that sand hoppers, tiny crustaceans that eat washed-up kelp, excavate extraordinary quantities of beach sand. Their study, published [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California beach can be reshaped overnight by creatures barely the size of a fingernail, with sand hoppers digging up to 110 pounds of sand per meter of shoreline each day. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara found that sand hoppers, tiny crustaceans that eat washed-up kelp, excavate extraordinary quantities of beach sand. Their study, published &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/05\/these-fingernail-sized-animals-are-moving-astonishing-amounts-of-california-beach-sand\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;These Fingernail-Sized Animals Are Moving Astonishing Amounts of California Beach Sand&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}