Posted on 09/01/2017 6:26:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
Video shows hideously ugly organism jiggling and pulsating as it's dragged from the water.
A DISGUSTING blob creature that looks like a BRAIN has been discovered in a lake called The Lost Lagoon.
The horrible beastie is a nasty brown colour and is said to feel squishy but firm to the touch, a bit like jelly.
This horrible thing is made up of millions of tiny organisms =====================================================================
Celina Starnes, an ecologist from the Stanley Park Ecology Society, dragged the blob from its watery home
This image gives a sense of the size of the horrible creature
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Celina Starnes from the Stanley Park Ecology Society pulled one of the specimens out of the Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park in Vancouver, Canada.
In the video above, the organism can be seen jiggling and pulsating as it's dragged from the water.
The blob is called a bryozoan and is actually made up of tiny microscopic organisms called zooids, which can multiply without needing to have sex.
They are known to live further south in areas east of the Mississippi River, but this is the first time they have spotted in such a northerly area.
It's believed they may be thriving across North America due to climate change.
"With warming climate, they might migrate somewhere farther north," Ian Walker, a biology professor at the University of British Columbia, told National Geographic.
The beastie's brown colour helps it blend into its environment
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It bears a striking resemblance to a human brain
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But there's an even bigger "blob" out in deep space which is threatening to collide with the Milky Way, humanity's home galaxy.
But don't worry, it's not actually alive.
It's a gigantic gaseous globule, dubbed Smith's Cloud that's hurtling towards our galaxy at a startling pace of 700,000 miles an hour.
Experts are predicting an enormous galactic fireworks show when the collision finally occurs in 30 million years time.
The *smell* would turn you off. Kinda moldy.
Supposedly, they are harmless, beneficial b/c they filter the water; although they become a nuisance when they clog intake and irrigation pipes. We often take the Labs to the Cove to play water fetch. The older Lab tried to *fetch* one once...the look on his face was *priceless*.
http://www.backyardnature.net/n/x/bryozoan.htm
It’s UK, so.....................
OMG!!!!
The idiot press is blaming this finding on “climate change”, as if this type of creature, and this rare find, represents something that has not been identified and known for a long time, which it has been.
They don’t require ‘history’ or ‘biology’ in Journalism School!.........................
Common at Lake of the Ozarks and in the Missouri River basin.
They will agglomerate on boat bottoms, docks, rope lines in the water.
They say it’s common!
I’ve never seen one and I’ve lived in The South all my life......
When my boys were younger....the BEST aquarium we had, was a natural one. I let them gather critters with nets from the shallows of a farm pond.
We had water striders, water scorpions, water boatmen; small bass and minnows. Crawfish. Small painted turt. small frog. Native water plants. It was great fun ...and cheap too.
The water scorpions were amazing, breathing through the tube on their backside.
Climate change explains everything.
These blobs are often misidentified but can grow to the size of a basketball.
An environmental “expert” from Iowa swore they were some sort of catfish “sperm.”
So that’s where all the liberal’s brains went!
An environmental “expert”?.....................
Must have had an On-Line Diploma Mill Sheepskin..............
Drain the Swamp!
It has been known that bacteria colonize, forming clumps, for quite some time. It would follow that other single celled organisms could have the same capability.
This one raises fascinating questions about the underlying genetics that might guide the tendency towards certain forms, such as a human brain. Veeeerrryy Interesting.
Brain Coral...................
These are the best aquariums for children. I teach all my families to have a natural tank with critters from the ditch, pond, creek. My most joyous times were spent as a child mucking about in the water - bay, creek, pond, ditch - discovering and bringing home tiny animals.
Do not think I could get it past my lips.
Don’t walk ... run from the blob.
‘He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.’ - Jonathan Swift..................
Worked for public TV...
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