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THE BLOBTerrifying blob creature that looks like a BRAIN discovered in a spooky lake...
www.thesun.co.uk ^ | Updated: 1st September 2017, 12:39 pm | By Jasper Hamill

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.


TOPICS: Agriculture; Gardening; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animal; blob; brain; creature
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To: Red Badger

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


21 posted on 09/01/2017 6:46:59 AM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: caver

It’s UK, so.....................


22 posted on 09/01/2017 6:48:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

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.


23 posted on 09/01/2017 6:51:17 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Red Badger
This is a bryozoa colony
24 posted on 09/01/2017 6:52:17 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Wuli

They don’t require ‘history’ or ‘biology’ in Journalism School!.........................


25 posted on 09/01/2017 6:53:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Common at Lake of the Ozarks and in the Missouri River basin.
They will agglomerate on boat bottoms, docks, rope lines in the water.


26 posted on 09/01/2017 6:53:52 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

They say it’s common!

I’ve never seen one and I’ve lived in The South all my life......


27 posted on 09/01/2017 6:54:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Louis Foxwell
I can only imagine!

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.


28 posted on 09/01/2017 6:56:29 AM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: Mr. K

Climate change explains everything.


29 posted on 09/01/2017 6:59:51 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Red Badger

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.”


30 posted on 09/01/2017 7:01:23 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Gen.Blather

So that’s where all the liberal’s brains went!


31 posted on 09/01/2017 7:03:02 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

An environmental “expert”?.....................

Must have had an On-Line Diploma Mill Sheepskin..............


32 posted on 09/01/2017 7:04:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: All

Drain the Swamp!


33 posted on 09/01/2017 7:08:17 AM PDT by 80skid
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To: Red Badger

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.


34 posted on 09/01/2017 7:13:11 AM PDT by bioqubit (bioqubit: Educated Men Make Terrible Slaves - Aristotle)
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To: bioqubit
Brain Coral...................
35 posted on 09/01/2017 7:15:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Daffynition

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.


36 posted on 09/01/2017 7:16:47 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Red Badger

Do not think I could get it past my lips.


37 posted on 09/01/2017 7:18:15 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Red Badger

Don’t walk ... run from the blob.


38 posted on 09/01/2017 7:18:23 AM PDT by al_c (LIBERAL - Laughable Iconsiderate Blaming Entitled Ranting Anti-christian Loudmouth)
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To: Louis Foxwell

‘He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.’ - Jonathan Swift..................


39 posted on 09/01/2017 7:20:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Worked for public TV...


40 posted on 09/01/2017 7:22:15 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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