Bryozoan (Tubifex Worms)
Bryozoan
Tubifex Worms
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Bryozoan
RALEIGH It looks like blob of wriggling pudding staring out through a single, puckered eye.
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You can see it caught on camera, clinging to the concrete pipes below Raleigh's Cameron Village: the Sewer Monster.It's really a colony of prehistoric creatures known either as bryozoans or moss animalcules, thousands of wormlike animals, biologists report.
Clustered together in a glistening mass, they feed through tentacles on whatever floats past.
More common in ponds, they have turned up in a set of sanitary sewer pipes under one of the country's oldest shopping centers.
Living in a 6-inch sewer main, the clusters of worms are about the size of a golf ball, estimates Ed Buchan, an environmental coordinator with the city.
But the video footage, captured with a tiny snakelike camera, makes the monster appear at man-eating size to viewers watching at home.
That may explain why a two-minute video tour of the Sewer Monster's lair has spread across the Web like flesh-eating bacteria, prompting nationwide cries of horror and disgust."Mystery Life Form in NC Sewer!" read one headline, followed by this comment: "It looks like meat.
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Video here: ( I did see this before at other links- didn't know it was a Bryozoan ! )
YouTube - Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer!