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Subject: Re: Incredibly disturbing footage of unkown sewer lifeforms
From: glassjaw19 posted Tue, Jun 30 2009, 12:07pm 
Okay,

found a good explanation, at least best one so far:

Bryozoans

Bryozoans are tiny colonial animals that are fairly common in lakes and streams with suitable habitat. Different species form colonies that range in appearance from delicate wispy moss-like growths to basketball-size gelatinous masses. Each colony is made of many individual creatures called "zooids." Zooids are microscopic cylindrical creatures with a mouth, digestive tract, muscles, and nerve centers. The zooids are covered by a protective matrix which may be delicate, hard, or gelatinous depending on the species. They feed by filtering tiny algae and protozoa through a crown of tentacles (lophophore). Bryozoan colonies grow by budding from the adult zooids. New colonies will establish from a free-swimming, microscopic larval stage or by growth of dormant spore-like "statoblasts." Most Bryozoans live in salt water, and of the 20 or so freshwater species found in North America, most are found in warm-water regions attached to plants, logs, rocks and other firm substrates. The forms most likely encountered in the northwest are translucent, brownish-gray, jelly-like masses that look like they have little black dots
Subject: Re: Incredibly disturbing footage of unkown sewer lifeforms
From: glassjaw19 posted Tue, Jun 30 2009, 12:09pm 
Looks like and thankfully, this case is closed already: http://cryptozooblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/sewer-monster-in-denver.html
Subject: Re: Incredibly disturbing footage of unkown sewer lifeforms
From: glassjaw19 posted Tue, Jun 30 2009, 12:13pm 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubifex_tubifex

Found that on Wiki, a possible better explanation. The whole creating a protective cyst part it truly gross, but possibly that is what we are seeing in the video.
Subject: Re: Incredibly disturbing footage of unkown sewer lifeforms
From: Therst posted Tue, Jun 30 2009, 6:42pm 
Gnarly.
Subject: Re: Incredibly disturbing footage of unkown sewer lifeforms
From: Guodzilla posted Wed, Jul 1 2009, 5:03am 
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Subject: Re: Incredibly disturbing footage of unkown sewer lifeforms
From: Datu Puti posted Wed, Jul 1 2009, 8:24am 
yup, bryozoans. this kind of thing happens every couple of years and it's always reported as a 'monster' or at least an 'unknown creature'. that was my reaction the first time i saw one in a texas pond, too - that one didn't move though. it was one of the hard and crusty type. i think if it had pulsated like this i would have been pretty freaked out by it. i really don't know why the average person is so unaware of bryozoans, but they are just another known colonial life form. hey, cryptid or not, it's cool enough for me.
-dan


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