Bizarre 'alien egg pods' are dragged out of an Oklahoma lake causing locals to ... trends now
Wildlife officials are warning locals about 'alien egg pods' spotted in an Oklahoma lake, saying the creatures will show up in large numbers this summer.
Images of the bizarre sightings surfaced online, showing large, jelly-like balls with a hard exterior hanging from submerged tree limbs.
While photos of the strange animals have sparked confusion, and a little fear online, with some people saying they have to be from outer space.
However, officials reassured the public that the animals were simply bryozoans, which have been around for hundreds of millions of years - long before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth.
The creatures clone themselves into large masses to filter tiny particles out of the water for food - ultimately cleaning up the lake.
Images of the bizarre sightings surfaced online, showing large, jelly-like balls with a hard exterior hanging from submerged tree limbs
The pond-dwelling jellies were recently spotted in McGee Creek Reservoir, located on the southwest edge of the Ouachita Mountain Range.
Bryozoan clumps are actually hundreds of creatures, known as zooids, each a fraction of a millimeter long, living together in a slimy mass.
They lack any respiratory or circulatory systems, but have a central nerve ganglion that allows the animal to respond to stimuli.
The tiny invertebrates possess both male and female reproductive organs, allowing them to self-clone and spread spread through clumps of cells on the organism known as statoblasts.
Each statoblast can reproduce asexually if it breaks off from a colony,
