clipped from: blogs.howstuffworks.com Near my home in Raleigh, NC, these bizarre creatures were caught on camera:
It looks freaky, but is described here as a Bryozoan:
An aquatic specialist from the DOW confirmed that what the camera had discovered was actually a Bryozoan, a primitive life form that, as a species, is over 350 million years old.
The Bryozoans are collections of smaller organisms that filter food out of the water supply, and they are an extremely primitive “animal” life form.