Ever wondered what’s lurking in Lost Lagoon?
A group of volunteer nature lovers were aiming to find out while helping experts compile a list of species living in Stanley Park.
They discovered, to their surprise, a colony of blob-like creatures in Lost Lagoon.
The blobs, known as bryozoans, were found in the biofiltration pond a few metres from the Stanley Park Causeway.
“The common name for them is a moss animal and it is indeed an animal and it lives in a colony,” said Maria Egerton of the Stanley Park Ecology Society.
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“They start off as these little tiny embryos and they secrete chitin that forms a soft shell around them and they also secrete a kind of a jelly and that helps them to glom together in colonies so they reproduce asexually and they form these colonies of clones.”
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Most commonly found in Mississippi, Egerton said the blobs may have flown in on a bird’s foot.
She said as far as she knows the blobs are harmless.
“They’re really, really cool, very Star Trek-y,” she said.
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