Well, I showed this to one of my Profs on Facebook whose specialty is medical microbiology and parasitology. He has no idea what it is. He showed it to another Prof, his friend, who also didn't know. He thinks its real, he just doesn't know what it is.
Sewer cam. VERY GROSS lifeform
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It's a freshwater Bryozoan.
I used to live over in that neighborhood (Cameron Village) here in Raleigh. From my understanding, this video is from a private sewer in the area.
I used to live over in that neighborhood (Cameron Village) here in Raleigh. From my understanding, this video is from a private sewer in the area.
http://gizmodo.com/5305380/disgusting-sewer-creature-update-its-fing-real
"Thanks for the video – I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! 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. Interesting video."
There have been conflicting reports and the 'experts' disagree on what the objects are. I've heard anything from Tubifex to Bryozoans and am leaning towards Bryozoans, myself...but I'm no expert. 
Here's a link to a local news site here in Raleigh. http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5483707/
Here's a link to a local news site here in Raleigh. http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5483707/
Another tubifex explanation, News14
http://www.news14.com/content/local...eature--surprises-city-officials/Default.aspx
http://www.news14.com/content/local...eature--surprises-city-officials/Default.aspx
I wonder if the ninja turtles would have given second thoughts on their choice of living quarters had they seen this video before they chose to move into the sewers. .
i don't believe the tubfex worm either if you look at the thing, there is a mucus over it that is part if it, and reacts with the movement of the carmeras,.. and one of the last pic you see a white needle looking thing retrack into the mass,.. look very good and you will see it is something all in one,.. not a mass of individual worms,..
Zap it with a cattle prod and see if it reacts. Maybe it's "The Blob" and it's spawn! I knew they didn't kill it! It's come back to seek it's revenge!!!!!! Run for your lives!!!!!!!!
Tubifex worms...the first mass is dark like blackworms. I feed live blackworms to my fish and they exhibit the same "contracting" behavior when one moves in the mass. They also lump up together in the corner of the container to get to the surface of the water.
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