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	<title>Comments on: Very, very weird sewer creatures caught on camera &#8211; tubifex worms or bryozoan?</title>
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		<title>By: What is lurking in that North Carolina sewer? &#171; The Church of the Apocalyptic Kiwi</title>
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		<dc:creator>What is lurking in that North Carolina sewer? &#171; The Church of the Apocalyptic Kiwi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] colonoscopy, and the commentariat developed various  theories about the creatures in the video:  bryozoans, tubifex worms, or plasmodial slime [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] colonoscopy, and the commentariat developed various  theories about the creatures in the video:  bryozoans, tubifex worms, or plasmodial slime [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Bob</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1)I came for the weird creature and stayed for the redneck video.
2)I bet you that some of that ball bryozoa is still alive
3)it is weird to think that those balls have been around for 20 million years....yikes.
4)Mr.common senses post should be read.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1)I came for the weird creature and stayed for the redneck video.<br />
2)I bet you that some of that ball bryozoa is still alive<br />
3)it is weird to think that those balls have been around for 20 million years&#8230;.yikes.<br />
4)Mr.common senses post should be read.</p>
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		<title>By: The Blob Attacks Alaska and Other Cryptozoological Letdowns &#8211; The Blogs at HowStuffWorks</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Blob Attacks Alaska and Other Cryptozoological Letdowns &#8211; The Blogs at HowStuffWorks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] a few weeks ago, we all followed the North Carolina &#8220;sewer monster&#8221; and the uncertainties surrounding its origin. Today, I caught up on my news and learned (via the excellent Monster Brains art blog) that [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] a few weeks ago, we all followed the North Carolina &#8220;sewer monster&#8221; and the uncertainties surrounding its origin. Today, I caught up on my news and learned (via the excellent Monster Brains art blog) that [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Un alieno nelle fogne? Probabilmente una colonia di vermi! &#124; Enrico Baccarini</title>
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		<dc:creator>Un alieno nelle fogne? Probabilmente una colonia di vermi! &#124; Enrico Baccarini</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Bizarre life form found in North Carolina sewer &#171; Smash Mouth Politics</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bizarre life form found in North Carolina sewer &#171; Smash Mouth Politics</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] quick google search uncovered at least one blog site that knows WTF this creature is! theblogathowstuffworks. Personally, I think they are wrong. This is definitely how liberals appear when not in public and [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] quick google search uncovered at least one blog site that knows WTF this creature is! theblogathowstuffworks. Personally, I think they are wrong. This is definitely how liberals appear when not in public and [...]</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...]  Very, very weird sewer creatures caught on camera &#8211; tubifex worms or bryozoan? Near my home in Raleigh, NC, these bizarre creatures were caught on camera: [...]</description>
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		<title>By: 1stboybandfan</title>
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		<dc:creator>1stboybandfan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They look like a lung or a heart or something. That is messed up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They look like a lung or a heart or something. That is messed up.</p>
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		<title>By: gringogidget</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is totally a colonoscopy!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is totally a colonoscopy!</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...]  Very, very weird sewer creatures caught on camera Near my home in Raleigh, NC, these bizarre creatures were caught on camera: [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Mr. Common Sense</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mr. Common Sense</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>According to Dr. Timothy Wood, freshwater bryozoa expert: 

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.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to Dr. Timothy Wood, freshwater bryozoa expert: </p>
<p>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.</p>
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