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Bizarre orange"alien egg pod" found in river

Allan Rose Hill
Oct 30, 2024
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image: Chatty G

"Bizarre!" is how the city ecologists in Utrecht, The Netherlands describe this bright orange sac discovered attached to a floating island in one of the city's canals.

It turns out that the "large slippery thing," as described by the ecologists, is actually a colony of tiny Bryozoans.

Often called "moss animals," Bryozoans are small, aquati…

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