It looks like a living ball of feces.
According to one of the posters I guess it’s related to the Tubifex worm, but I’d love a confirmation from someone other than a YouTard.
A local story:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1591089.html
Bryozoans are known as “moss animals” – obviously a euphemism.
I actually blame the News & Observer and WRAL – their investigative reporting isa always opening up a can of worms. 
Are you sure it’s not the South Carolina governor hiding out until the fuss blows over?
Pause the video at 57 seconds. There, in the upper-right of the frame, is that the face of Dwight Eisenhower?
Whatever it was, it was fucking gross!
If I ever saw that and did not know exactly what it was, it would scare the crap out of me. Heck, it scares the crap out of me anyway. ewwwwwwww!
Ya know, if this happened literally, while near it, it might actually get bigger! :eek:
This is very untrue. Or, rather, it’s true for a sufficiently liberal interpretation of “related to”. Tubifex is in the same “superphylum” as the bryozoans (Lophotrochozoa), but that only makes them distantly related, at best, since phyla make up the second most general grouping in classical taxonomy.
It would be like saying that, because humans are in grouping Tetrapoda, we are related to frogs. Technically true, but meh.
Yes. Yes, it is.
Thanks for pointing that out!:eek:
How big are these things?
I’d love for someone to cite a news source, that quotes some experts, definitively stating whether this is a known lifeform or not.
Hmm… from here:
No wonder William T. Innes says in Exotic Aquarium Fishes to wash them if you collect them in the wild for fish food.
Eraserhead
It looks like it’s covered in maggots! GAAAAHHHHH! Runs screaming from the thread
Totally looked like it. Hell, this gross thing has a presidential stamp! Creepy feces-moss-creature endorsed by Ike! Get yours today!