Sunday, July 19, 2009

The North Carolina Sewer Creature


Here is your second stand down, no need to panic story in two days. The previously unknown lifeform found in a small sewer pipe in North Carolina has turned out to be colonies of tubifex worms. Still, watching this video is reason enough to instill a modicum of panic amongst people.

Here's your Sunday morning science lesson: These things not only can survive in oxygen depleted, rank and disgusting places (like sewer pipes) but they are delicacies for aquarium fish, as seen above, looking for all the world like annelid bullion cubes.

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