A weird yellow-brown blobby substance was discovered in a man-made lake. Some people thought that it was a leftover Halloween prank (a fake lake monster), while others thought that the 4-ft-long blob was a bloated animal corpse. A third theory was that it was associated with aliens. This one turned out to be more correct than the others, since the "thing" was alien, to the freshwater lake. This creature is quite common in saltwater. Scientists think that it might have been brought there by a migrating bird's foot.
"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."
I think that this blob is really cool, thought pretty disgusting. 4 feet is actually really big, yuck! I wonder how they got it out of the water - it was all squishy...
This is really interesting. I was planning my lesson for 6th grade and may use your current event as the opening WOW! :) You summarized the article really well and I also wonder how they got it out of the water. Who found it? Did the article say?
ReplyDeleteI think it was some people living around there who called the authorities when they found it. It didn't really give a name. Thank you, I hope the 6th graders like it if you decide to show them!
ReplyDeleteThis is really cool... it would be AWESOME if it is "alien"... Great job and really interesting article.
ReplyDeleteAgree with despina about the alien part, It was very well summarized and really good and interesting.
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