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Re: What is it?

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Originally Posted by InfiniteNow View Post
A biologist at the University of Minnesota seems to think the suggestion that it is a colony of either tubifex worms or bryozoans sounds reasonable.

And, according to this story, they've confirmed the tubifex worms hypothesis.


Here's the wiki on those things: Tubifex tubifex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I just spotted it today on youtube, so it may be old news. I like the tubifix hypothesis; didn't know that bryozoans were as mobile. Like everyone else, I suppose, I had to recall that old sci-fi movie "The Blob". I think it came out of the sewers.


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