It’s giving sci-fi nightmares.
Just in time for spooky season, a strange, slimy orange bag that resembles 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 bivalves that clump together to form dinosaur-egg-like pods – they’re puzzled by how the creepy crawlies are literally found in a canal in Utrecht. Why were you roaming around, Holland?
Local ecologist Anne Nijs pointed out that this phenomenon does not usually happen in the Netherlands. Advertisement,
“The big bag is made up of many animals. At a certain point they form a colony and different colonies may stick together again. A bag can be 2 meters in diameter. That bag then gets attached to something,” Neese says.
volunteers found A strange blob stuck to a floating island in a canal. Experts say colonies can grow to about seven feet in diameter.
“This is the first time that they have been discovered here. So this is a very special story,” Neese said.
The expert said that the aesthetically disturbing phenomenon is not harmful in any way.
Reportedly originally coming from the East Coast of the United States, the microscopic strange creatures were found in Germany as early as 1883.
Last spring, a cluster was spotted in Oklahoma – leading to far-right “alien egg pod” conspiracy theories, Sun Informed.
“This species has appeared throughout Western Europe since the 1990s and is spreading rapidly,” Nijs said.
Bryozoans are creatures with both female and male sex organs, which allows them to clone themselves.
There are approximately 6,000 recorded species of unknown creatures – ideally not in a place where you go swimming.
