Wednesday, July 1, 2009

It came from the deep..well, the sewer is kind of deep ya know..

Here is a very disturbing find, at least for the guy who ran the camera down the sewers under Cameron Village in Raleigh, North Carolina. It looks like something pulled from a movie. You know, the aliens heart beating or the chest of some poor soul before the alien breaks out.( hmm how many times can you say alien in a sentence.) An expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association, Dr. Timothy S. Wood, says that it is worms.. Here is what he said..".... They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. "

My response, "That's nasty and cool''" Check out the video

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