Monster crabs are invading again! Huge crabs have invaded the Antarctic, wiping out local wildlife and ruining ecosystems that have evolved over 14 million years. Three years ago, researchers predicted that as the deep waters of the Southern Ocean warmed, king crabs would invade Antarctica within 100 years, and now they’ve arrived. They have a voracious appetite and eat everything in their path.
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The mysterious Alaskan slime has been identified as eggs. A sample of the "goo" has been taken to a NOAA laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina for analysis. NOAA spokeswoman Julie Speegle says, "We’ll probably find some clues, but we’ll likely never have a definitive answer on (what they are)."
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This isn’t the first case of a mysterious goo that we’ve heard of. This time, the results are as big a mystery as the slime itself. In the Inuit village of Kivalina in Alaska, a strange orange goo was floating on the water.
The next day it rained, and residents found the orange goo floating on top of the rain buckets they use to collect drinking water. It was also found on one of the roofs, meaning it was airborne.
When it finally began washing ashore, samples were collected and sent to a lab in Anchorage for analysis. The analysis revealed the slime was made out of EGGS! But nobody know where they came from.
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Something thick and gooey (a mysterious substance that has yet to be identified) is floating in the Arctic waters off Alaska. The Coast Guard has collected samples to test, but still haven’t discovered what it is.
In the Anchorage Daily News, Don Hunter quotes Coast Guard officer Terry Hasenauer as saying, “It’s certainly biological. It’s definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter. It’s definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it’s some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism. That’s one of the reasons we went out, because in recent history I don’t think we’ve seen anything like this.”
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