Off the Wall - Slimy, orange 'alien egg pods' discovered in river - and they're 'spreading rapidly'
A Sci-Fi Nightmare
It’s giving sci-fi nightmare.
Just in time for spooky season, a slimy orange sac said to resemble a glowing dinosaur egg has been pulled from a river.
And while scientists say they know what it is — a colony of bryozoans, slimy little hermaphrodites that cluster together to create an egg-like pod — they’re puzzled as to why the creepy crew was literally hanging out in a canal in Utrecht, Holland.
Ecologists in Netherlands were startled to find the creepy colony at the bottom of a canal.
The phenomenon does not normally occur in Netherlands, local ecologist Anne Nijs told local outlet AD.
“The big bag is formed by several animals together. At a certain point they form a colony and different colonies can then stick together. A bag can become 2 meters in diameter. That bag then attaches itself to something,” said…