China Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Upon first glance, I thought it was Tarhog's nipple. Creatures from the Sewer The latest viral video is from the sewer under Cameron Village in Raleigh, NC. The mysterious creatures found are nothing short of disgusting and spectacular. This video has made its way to Video Sift and various cryptozoology sites. Speculations on the nature of this creature run from bryozoans, cnidarians, slime molds, and some mysterious alien creature here to suck out our brains. Well let me say first that it is none of the above. I can think of no freshwater Cnidarian that looks anything like this. It lacks the characteristic delineations that would indicate individual zooids in the colony and frankly the retracting of finger-like tentacles doesn’t seem like a bryozan characteristic (see the pictures at this site). In fact, I have poked a lot of invertebrates as lab instructor for invertebrate zoology and as a graduate student just for ****s and giggles and none of the mentioned candidates would respond like this. So back to square one… You shouldn’t trust me however…you should trust an expert in one of the aforementioned groups. Enter stage right Dr. Timothy S. Wood who is an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association. I sent along the video and this was his reponse… Thanks for the video – I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haithman Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Ewwww What the **** is that?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 :hungry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrFan Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 The blob is back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenlipper Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 I'd hit it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 3, 2009 Author Share Posted July 3, 2009 The blob is back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP-KzJbKR_o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dallsux Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 http://urbanlegends.about.com/?once=true& According to the link, these are not uncommon in sewers & are simply not viewed by many people because of that. Still, I was thinking some onions, peppers, some soul food seasoning...looks like good grilling food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskeypeet Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 I'd hit it You sir are funny.....I laughed out loud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickalino Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 I'd hit it You sir are funny.....I laughed out loud. I think he's serious.....I mean it does kind of resemble an up-close.....oh nevermind :paranoid: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 16, 2009 Author Share Posted July 16, 2009 Another strange blob-like life form has been spotted: Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities IT'S NOT OIL: No one in the area can recall seeing anything like it before. By DON HUNTER July 14th, 2009 Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow. Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough's Planning and Community Services Department. Brower and other borough officials, joined by the U.S. Coast Guard, flew out to Wainwright to investigate. The agencies found "globs" of the stuff floating miles offshore Friday and collected samples for testing. Later, Brower said, the North Slope team in a borough helicopter spotted a long strand of the stuff and followed it for about 15 miles, shooting video from the air. The next day the floating substance arrived offshore from Barrow, about 90 miles east of Wainwright, and borough officials went out in boats, collected more samples and sent them off for testing too. Nobody knows for sure what the gunk is, but Petty Officer 1st Class Terry Hasenauer says the Coast Guard is sure what it is not. "It's certainly biological," Hasenauer said. "It's definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter. "It's definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it's some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism." Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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