New Life Form Found In Sewer

the aliens have landed! ah!!

I need nika to explain this away very soon or I'm just going to start crying and never stop.

Obviously those are tiny gremlins that were fed after midnight and then flushed.

Seriously though, I think it's some sort of a primitive animal colony that incorporated all the nasty stuff from the drain in its growth.
All that comes to my mind is some kind of cnidaria or bryozoan.

To me it looks like a heart and lungs. That's my vote. This is a heart and lungs and the description of it being in the sewer is just wrong. :)

The only bryozoans I know are marine, but I thought they are more organized than these in appearance.

Looks more like a camera zoomed in really close or inside something than it does a sewer.

That's what I think chewbaka. The sewer part is edited in and the rest is from an endoscope.

I found a slightly better copy of the video. I retract my heart and lungs theory. I am leaning toward nika's but still not sure about it being a bryozoan because of the seeming lack of structure when it pulses. Here's a site that supports her theory http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/06/30/very-very-weird-sewer-creatures-caught-on-camera-or-how-bryozoa-work/

I am trying to find out more. The creature from the site above looks similar to the one in the video but I'm unfamiliar with freshwater bryzoans.

And you think there's a part of human internal anatomy that moves that way and reacts on stimulus from an endoscope..?

Extremely evolved hemorrhoid perhaps..? :P

There's some resemblance to here to a heart after an infarction.

that's just creepy.

im pretty sure its some form of cnidaria.

Again I just think of the marine species I know, corallimorphs, discosoma, jellies, etc. Which look nothing like the video and are marine species. I don't know enough about bacterial colonies to know if they have that sort of movement, but that's mostly what it looks like to me.

D: .... that's all i can say ... D:

Freshwater bryozoa are not uncommon in drains, the only thing that's throwing me off here is the meaty appearance.

The other thing I'm thinking is some kind of gastropod, maybe freshwater mussel that adapted to life in a sewer and has no shell (no predators).

Here's another theory. Not sure about this one though. http://deepseanews.com/2009/06/creatures-from-the-sewer/
I will have to research freshwater bryzoa some because marine bryzoa are colonial in a way that is discernible to the naked eye. This blob, while possibly colonial, doesn't appear to be.

This photo of a freshwater bryzoan (Pectinatella Magnifica)even has the earmarks of a colonial species.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Pectinatella_magnifica_8568.jpg

Looking at the video again, I am leaning toward the worm theory. Perhaps not Tubifex Tubifex, but something all wormy and gross.

I thought of tubifex worms at first, but I discarded that cause in their colony-even though it's a colony- you can still see the individuals and their strands sticking out separating from the formation (like on the video those guys posted).
This 'creature' is completely homogeneous- the only way it could be tubifex is if the colony formed some kind of cocoon.

The fact Dr. Timothy S. Wood said it which such certainty just goes to show the arrogance common for the upscale scientists.
That's why so many new species stay undiscovered and showed in some known systematic box.

the last one looks like a diseased clitoris.

nika, I agree about Dr. Wood. However, I found a larger version of the video and there do seem to be some strands or fibrous features to the mass. I'm not sold on any theory just yet. But from about 1:45 in to the end I see features that make me think...maybe.

Waffle Guy, uncalled for and inappropriate.

but how about if that was really a alien or some new mutated creature?

What if is a totally different discussion. There are too many terrestrial lifeforms that are similar to this for this to be from outer space. In fact, this isn't even the oddest thing that lives on earth.

I definitely didn't exclude 'new mutated creature' or simply an animal that wasn't discovered before- it's actually what I always hope for when a video like this appears online.

I like this excerpt from the intro to my invertebrates textbook:

"Approximately 1,300,000 animal species were described to this day- 1,250,000 are invertebrates. That number is not final because new species get discovered every year. Alas, with influence of humans and other factors that disturb natural balance, we will never get to know most of the still undiscovered species- they will simply disappear with all the genetic traits formed through millions of years."

So amazing, and so sad.

Eww.

It looks like something is trapped behind some layer of mucus.

Maybe its like some larva/egg sack and whatever is inside is trying to escape from its protective, mucus layer.

To me, it seems like maggots are about to emerge.

The "maggots about to emerge" does conform with the worm theory though I don't think it would be maggots.

I don't really find the intro from your text book to be sad. The reality is about 95% of all species that have ever lived on the earth are extinct man had very little to do with most of them. I find it less sad, and more a shame, that I won't ever see them.

Looks like the eggs from alien to me.
also thats why you SHOULD dump soaps, chemicals down you drain so things like this dont exist.

Well it's confirmed a colony of tubifex worms. Well done detectives.

http://mashable.com/2009/07/02/unknown-lifeform/

I'm still skeptical as I've seen tubifex colony both live and in different textbooks, and they were never so glued together.
They form a ball, but it's like a ball of wool where you can still see individual threads.

I'm not saying that's not it, just that if it is it's an unusual colony- which is obvious cause otherwise it wouldn't cause that much confusion.

now picture those things crawling up the drain...

Alright!
Si I was somewhat close with my guess!