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posted September 23, 2007 06:14 AM         

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Mysterious
Strange Creatures Appear on Texas Lake
"They eat the microscopic plants and stuff that is floating in the water!"

Many have called environmental agencies to report the globs.
Is it dangerous? What is it?" "Will it hurt me?"

They are found "around a lot of the marinas, the docks, around the structures, trees, anything they can attach themselves to."

Park officials and universities have received dozens of calls reporting the invasion.

"They definitely have a concern. They want to make sure it is something that isn't going to hurt them," said Joe Moore with the Grapevine Parks and Recreation.

Watch the Fox News Video http://origin2.foxnews.com/video2/player06 .html?091307/091307_fr_texas&FOX_Report&What%20Are%20They%3F&acc&Science&-1&News&107&&&new
Each one "is a colony of millions of tiny organisms called 'zooids.' The colony exudes a protective gelatinous material that makes it resemble a big ball of jelly."

In other news:
The unusual blobs are perhaps freshwater invertebrates for now we are calling them "moss animals"
See more pictures: http://www.myfoxstl.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_gallery.jsp?contentId= 4167552&version=1&locale=EN-US

Watch MyFoxAustin / FOX7 executive producer attempt to pick up the slimy creature that was brought back to the newsroom. His reaction will let you know just how gross this thing is! http://www.myfoxstl.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=4167 272&version=1&locale=EN-US

http://www.myfoxstl.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId =4170583&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.3.1

At Forums, what people are saying:
http://www.morgellons-disease-research.com/Morgellons-Message-Board/index.php ?topic=2518.msg13646

They may look like slimy, acid-spitting space aliens, but officials say they are harmless.

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posted September 23, 2007 07:58 AM         

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How interesting.

These creatures are strange, but I don't think any more so than jelly fish.

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posted September 23, 2007 08:17 AM         

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posted September 23, 2007 10:36 AM         

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We here in northeastern Ohio have had these for at least 40+ years.
In lakes, streams, canals, field drain canals and certain rock bottomed ponds.
They feel like firm but fatty flesh and gelatin with a skin like surface. Cut open it looks like yellow fat.
Not much smell, maybe a bit sweet to musky sweaty.
I am surprised this is new news to anyone.
The one nice thing I have noticed is wherever these can be found, the water while they are there is usually crystal clear and water testing even confirms the water purity.
Yes, being the curious, analytical and detail oriented person I am...I have personally examined, dissected and smelled and tasted them, and watched them in glass jugs, fed them etcetera. Salt is not good for them, as for most freshwater snails and mosses. Vinegar does not seem to bother them. Milk is absorbed by them. So are food dyes. Urine and feces are absorbed by them. Lead is ignored as far as I can tell. Blood is absorbed by them.
I have also noticed different light spectrum can cause a brief barely perceptible shuddering.
A pinch of it will grow in a nutrient bath in a glass jug or aquarium. Sand and rock seem to be needed, not just mud/dirt. Rotted wood matter, especially bark seems best.
A surface water temperature of at least 75 degrees or more seems necessary.
While refrigeration does not seem to do much but halt growth, I have not seen any sign of returning to life after being frozen.

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posted September 23, 2007 10:55 AM         

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The one nice thing I have noticed is wherever these can be found, the water while they are there is usually crystal clear and water testing even confirms the water purity.

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posted September 23, 2007 11:06 AM         

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I find them completely fascinating!
I feel they are a good thing. The largest one I have encountered was in a field drainage canal.
It lined the bottom of the 3 foot wide trench and ran for approximately 5,000 feet before it dipped into slow moving steam where it broke up into smaller blobs.
It was approximately 8 inches thick average with a somewhat thicker than human skin surface and texture. It was freckled in coppery colored spots and had a thin slime coating much like a fish or slug snail, slightly sticky and having a wet fur odor.
The cows had defecated in the canal and urinated in it, however once it took over there was no sign of that.
Cows walking in it would damage it but within hours it would repair its self.

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posted September 23, 2007 11:29 AM         

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Last year there was a massive fish die off affecting yellow perch and sheepshead fish.
They washed up on the Shores of the Great Lakes.
The EPA gave many explanations for it and told the public there was nothing to worry about.
However....
I studied the phenomena and made some starling discovers no one will give me a rational answer for.
My findings over a two week period:
1. There was a swath some 50 feet wide average of dead fish of only two types, in a single and in some places double layer.
2. There was virtually no rotting fish odor considering all the corpses.
3. There were NO FLIES, no ants, no insects....an anomaly I found to be particularly disturbing.
4. No birds or other creatures were consuming the dead fish.
5. Complete absence of any animal life in the affected area, including insects of any kind.
Digging produced none of the common grubs or worms usually found.
6. The seagulls even stayed away.
7 Eventually being that the dead fish were not "going away" as nature would have usually done....Backhoes etcetera were brought in and the then petrified/mummified near odorless fish removed.
8. Upon dissection there was no deterioration of the internal organs seen, no parasites or worms.
They were simply in process of drying and mummifying. No rot seen or associated rot odors one would expect to find. Scales, fins, gills, vents all intact.
9. No females of either species were found as I found no internal fish egg sacks.

PS. This kind of studying anomalies is a past time/hobby of mine.

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posted September 23, 2007 12:10 PM         

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Holy crap.

I hope people don't start hurting them.

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posted September 23, 2007 01:19 PM         

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I am sure if those things are in northeastern Ohio we also have them in Michigan but I have never really seen one or at least never noticed them.

I guess I just assume that if anything is in the water nature meant it to be there for a purpose.

In the Great Lakes some things are brought in that don't belong there but instead belong in the oceans. They are brought in by ocean freighters. Like the zebra mussels which clog drainage pipes and have killed fish in the Great Lakes.

Maybe that is also how these things got into the lakes of Texas. Through the Gulf of Mexico.

This is why I don't like swimming in either the Great Lakes ( outside of the fact the water is just too dang cold ) and inland lakes. Prefer a chlorinated pool with no slimy things.

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posted September 23, 2007 03:00 PM         

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Fayte, what happened to all those fish is weired!

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posted September 23, 2007 04:56 PM         

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I have never seen these in person either. Maybe because I've lived primarily near saltwater. Anyways... It seems to be making headline news where they were discovered in Texas. I guess in California it would do the same. People are frightened by the unknown.

Hey, fayte.m do you want to send me one? Pack it in a small styrofoam ice chest or something? This would be really cool to share exploring with my little ones ages 5 and 3 years!

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posted September 23, 2007 06:33 PM         

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I would love to but the two places I most often found them are on private property owned by my ex#1 family. I doubt they'd let me back there and I no longer have a all terrain vehicle to get to it...and I am unable to walk that far.
The other place is closed for the season and I would have to sneak in to swipe some.
If I find any locally this fall I will gladly send you some! I will keep my eyes out for them. This summer due to a cerebral stroke in March and an ocular stroke in August, I have not been out hardly at all, and when I was it was on trails, not in the muck so to speak.
I will keep a look out and perhaps next summer I will be more frisky and send you some if I do not locate some this fall.

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