Tópico: Mysterious Lake Blob Identified as Alien Bryozoan

[Lion]

A bizarre brown and yellow blob discovered in a man-made lake in Newport News, Va., last week set off wild speculation.

Some people thought the 4-foot blob was a leftover Halloween prank, perhaps a fake lake monster. Others thought it might be an alien cocoon pod, such as those seen in films like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Still others guessed that it might be the bloated corpse of a large snake or other animal.

One of the men who found it, Charlie Schmuck, was immediately intrigued: "We took a stick and poked at it, and it was spongy and squishy. And that's kind of weird... The texture appears to be that of a rock with algae spots on it — it is brown and yellow, with a pattern of some type.”

Zoologists from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science were asked to examine the unidentified floating object, and quickly concluded that it was a stellar specimen of Pectinatella magnifica. That is, a bryozoan — a creature (actually a colony of tiny creatures) that filters and consumes algae from the water.

The talk of aliens, as it turned out, was actually fairly accurate. The bryozoan is indeed alien — to that freshwater lake anyway. Bryozoans are common in salt water, but relatively rare in freshwater. Scientists speculated that the animal had been introduced to the lake from mud on a migrating bird's foot.


Bryozoans (Pectinatella magnifica), attached to a gelatinous blob, are colonies of so-called zooids, each of which has a whorl of tentacles for catching food. Credit: Mike Goehle, USFWS.

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/mysterious-lake-blob-identified-101108.html

[Gigaview]

Pelo visto eles não conhecem o Rio Tietê...aqui no país do Bilú. 

[Buckaroo Banzai]

Não me surpreenderia se isso fosse postado por aí em sites mais woos achando que estivessem falando mesmo de confirmação de vida extraterrestre, em vez de uma espécie de trocadilho com "alien".

[Gigaview]

Não me surpreenderia se isso fosse postado por aí em sites mais woos achando que estivessem falando mesmo de confirmação de vida extraterrestre, em vez de uma espécie de trocadilho com "alien".

Sim. Alien no Brasil = ET

Já ví brasileiros ficarem constrangidos quando são obrigados a entrar na fila de "Aliens"  em aeroportos no exterior como se fossem ETs. 

[Lion]

Não apenas o Tietê mas muitos outros.... Aqui na minha cidade tem um córrego com material em abundância para esse tipo de especulação  

[Contini]

O Eni deve ter uma explicação beeem interessante pra isso!