Posted on 09/22/2014 9:54:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Where did the green 'alien eggs' come from? Scientists baffled by UFOs (unidentified floating objects) that washed up on a Sydney beach
Visitors from outer space or a natural phenomena? Surfers and early morning walkers were stunned to find thousands of 'alien eggs' on a Sydney beach this weekend.
Locals in Dee Why, on the city's North Shore, reported seeing a large number of the strange objects which had washed ashore overnight.
But rather than the green spheres being something from another planet, scientists explained they were a type of sponge-like seaweed that forms egg shapes possibly to protect themselves from predators.
Beach-goers said they'd never seen anything like it, describing the balls as 'alien eggs, 'alien hairballs', Japanese moss balls and UFOs (Unidentified Floating Objects).
'About three days ago, there were a few egg-shaped balls but then today, they were much bigger and everywhere on the beach,' Naraweena resident Jenny Zhang told The Manly Daily.
Scarlett de Villiers from nearby Davidson saw the weird balls on her regular morning beach walk.
'It was a windy day with a very high tide. I picked one up and squeezed it and it was so squishy - but I wasn't sure if it was alive and was worried I might hurt anything inside!' she told the Daily Mail. 'It struck me how perfectly shaped they all were and how green and alive they looked.'
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The mysterious green 'alien eggs' strewn across Sydney's Dee Why Beach Locals said they'd never seen anything like the green algae balls that washed ashore at Dee Why this week
Wave action and alge.
Send the alien green hams to the ME.
This explains Liberals!!!!!!!!!!!!
Algae/moss balls. Not cheap, if you want them for your aquarium or koi fish.
http://petcity2008.blogspot.com/2008/08/marimo-algae-moss-ball.html
My oscars had great fun tearing those up into little bits and pieces.
YUP! They are mojito balls. Google them in images. I guess scientists are easily baffled.
Or this is what happens to all that marijuana lost at sea, and the plankton eat it.........................
‘My oscars had great fun tearing those up into little bits and pieces.’
My koi would do the same. Since I can’t buy them locally, but would have to order off Ebay, it’s too expensive a treat to give them. I’d take some off the beach in Australia in a heartbeat, though.
Lol.
No pic.................
YUP! They are mojito balls.’
Could you have meant ‘marimo balls/marimo moss balls’?
Looks like horse sh!t to me.
You must have very sick horses..................;^)
He ate toooooo many mojitos................
Them’s Critters, watch out when they start rolling at you and then they’re all teeth!
One woman said she picked one up and squeezed it. What if there had been a piece of glass or broken shell inside? It would have sacred her to death...................
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