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In a scene that seemed to be taken from a scary Hollywood movie, beachgoers in California experienced the traumatic experience of a tiny flesh-eating crustacean known as mini-shark feeding on their often bleeding feet.

Live Science reported that the flesh-eating crustacean called Excirolana chiltoni is 03 inches long and travels in swarms, including a unit of about a thousand creatures.

The British Daily Mail website indicated that this creature is a type of crustacean, which also includes more than 10 thousand species of marine organisms that live in fresh and salt water.

About the painful experience, Tara Savage, a beachgoer in San Diego, California, said: "It was painful. I jumped out of the water and the blood covered my feet and between my toes I felt like a little piranha had bitten me, according to CBS8".

And she continued: I washed my feet and felt comfortable after about 15 minutes, however, when I put my hand in the sea water again, another one bit my finger.

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This type of crustacean is found on Californian beaches all year round, Scripps Oceanographic Institution professor Ryan Hechinger told CBS8.

He went on to say that the creature is symmetrical, and it is known that it bites people, spends its time in the water and likes to eat fresh meat like dead animals.

According to marine life experts, these creatures are usually found year-round along the California coast and on beaches in the Pacific Northwest regions of the United States and Canada.

The isopods usually live under sand, but they appear in shallow water when the tide recedes. If a dead fish or other large carcass is washed ashore, these insects will quickly pounce on them.

And although they prefer to eat fish and other sea creatures, it is possible to pounce on humans and this is what happened in the coast of California

Memories of the past

In another famous incident in 1993, a group of these rodents crept into the diaper of a young girl, which led to bleeding, which her father noticed when she suddenly started crying

In 2017, a 16-year-old boy was hospitalized after he was attacked by a swarm of rodents. At first, the boy didn't realize what had happened, but when he got out of the water he saw that the crustaceans had ripped pieces of skin from his feet that didn't stop The bleeding looked like a war injury, according to a BBC report

The importance of these objects

For his part, invertebrate scientist at the University of Arizona, Richard Bruska, explained the importance of these organisms, saying: They are really necessary for the ecosystem because they eat dead fish in the first place.

The expert gave advice to those who might be bitten by these creatures by saying: My advice is not to panic only if they bother you, get out of the water.