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 BEST! It’s amazing what is existing right under your feet. And using a strong magnifying glass or scope to watch what doesn’t appear to the naked eye.
I said. *naked*. >:P
We lived on an island with no electricity for 10 years; the boys did a similar thing with a seine/drag net at the shore. But having an aquarium was impossible without power.
Government employee.............
So what’s so “terrifying?” Does this thing roll into your house at night and englob your dog?
To a UK reporter, I suppose it IS terrifying!.................
Some are found in polar waters. Don’t writers use Wiki for reference?
some liberal is missing his brain...
Too big.................
I want to know what the first human to watch a bird lay an egg was thinking... “Hmmm - that looks TASTY!” LOL
Yeah, Shiite for brain liberals.
Somehow, I think the eating of eggs was ingrained into humans from the beginning, way back beyond the beginnings of walking upright...............
Not so. I maintain several tanks in the Victorian tradition. One is a tank given to a 5yr old boy by his father in 1895. The boy gave it to me when he was 85. It contains plants and colorful shrimp with no electrical devices.
Saw that as a kid.
Scared the crap outta me.
Now it’s just comical....................
BATTER DIPPED AND DEEP FRIED!Like calves brains!!
Ecologist pulls it from its watery home...now it’s dead.
Pod People
Somewhere there is a snowflake who self-identifies as a zooid blob and will be seeking a safe space from all your nasty comments.
I think one of them is that horrible blob that criticized Melania’s shoes.
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