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Anonymous
Dear /an/
This was posted at /b/ a few minutes ago.
Allthough many speculated what the thing was, nobody actually came up with anything intelligent.
I think cantaloupe was the best quess.

Anyway, the OP told that he'd been fishing and had pulled that thing up, and when he touched it, it shuttered.

Would anyone happen to have any knowledge about this strange pod?
>> Anonymous
Well, it's definitely not a cantaloupe.
>> Anonymous
Cnidarian, perhaps? Honestly, though, it looks like a type of egg sac, but I really don't know.
>> Anonymous
Looks like a coral.
>> Anonymous
is that fresh or salt water?

It could be a fungus grown on a treebranch that fell in the water--likely if it's freshwater.

If it's saltwater it could be a sponge or coral.
>> Anonymous
>>114078

I think the OP mentioned that it was freshwater.
Can't remember where though, the thread was deleted.
>> Anonymous
Life is creepy.
>> Anonymous
gross. i think it's an egg sac too. of what, i don't wanna know
>> Arkh
quick rub it on your face to find out!
>> Anonymous
Looks like a brain coral or a sponge growing around a stick.
>> Anonymous
its herpes, quick rub it on your face!
>> Anonymous
>>114121

It does look like that, but that doesn't make much sense.

Corals of that size take a LONG time to grow--as in DECADES. There is no way a stick would last that long in salt water. Corals generally grow on rocks, not organic materials. Not to mention...how in the heck does a stick get into salt water in the first place? Not exactly a common occurance.
>> Anonymous
>>114131
I don't think that's wood.
Looks like a piece of coral to me.
Or at least very old wood covered with coral.
>> Anonymous
>>114062
Frog eggs
>> Anonymous
i have those in my fresh water lake, no idea what they are
they're soft and spongy to pick up...don't think it's coral :p
>> Anonymous
looks like the hardened foam nest of some amphibian
>> Anonymous
its a wiley butt weasel
>> Anonymous
it's me
>> Arkh
seriously, jus rub it on your face and see what happens. Jus watch, some of it will stick to your face and spread over the rest of your head. Pics if that happens, disgusting tho they may be. Its worth a shot ... FOR SCIENCE!
>> Anonymous
kerbump, any ideas?
>> Anonymous
>>114439

like everyone's been saying, its probably a massive eggsack. It actually looks more like insect eggs then amphibian eggs.
>> Anonymous
looks like coral to me
>> Anonymous
>>114460
Just thinking that...kinda looks like brain coral
>> Anonymous
Coral would not form on the middle of a piece of driftwood before the driftwood was moved or decomposed.

It is an eggsack.
>> Anonymous
it's a leechee nut.
>> Anonymous
Srsly, wtf is wrong with anon?

It's obviously a panda bear.
>> Anonymous
>>114488
I thought it was a dolphin sperm.
>> Anonymous
It's me
I'm the thing in the OP
>> Anonymous
underwater-wasp hive
>> Anonymous
fags. its an egg sack on a stick.
>> Anonymous
looks like fuckign kelp to me.
>> Anonymous
Its definately a merman-lunchbox, but it has been perforated by a stick or something~
>> Anonymous
Its dolphin eggs.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
I saw a thread like this once. It's apparently a colony of some sort, consisting of protists/algae/whatthefuckever.
>> Anonymous
>>114546

Listen to this guy, he speaks with certainty.
>> Anonymous
Nonsense, I can state with 106% certainty that it is a Battletoad.
>> Anonymous
Obviously, you caught an armadillo.
>> Anonymous
I'm pretty sure it's a freshwater bryozoan.
>> Anonymous
I have seen them before in a lake in Alabama. They don't seem to be eggsacks or anything -- when cut open they are a uniform jelly-like substance. Some sort of algae, we decided.
>> Anonymous
quite obviously a dolphin sperm in the middle of fertilizing a dolphin egg.
>> Anonymous
water pr0ns!
>> Anonymous
Mysterious egg sac + giant worm = System Shock 2

And since it was mentioned this is from alabama, it would be something like "YER SONG AIN'T OUR SONG. SILENCE THA DISCURD..."

(in before 'gb2/v/')
>> Anonymous
it's not bryozoan, the one we found had leaves, small sticks and stuff suspended in it like hair and teeth in a tumor.
>> Anonymous
We get those in Washington state in the lakes all the time. I have seen them from around that size and smaller, to half the size of the canoe I was paddling... creepy. I was told they were like ballasts or weights or some such created by a certain kind of lilypads, which don't really root but keep anchored with those out in the deep parts of the lake. Course I was also told they were carp brains, soo.... Usually I find them in lakes with massive ammounts of the pads.
>> Anonymous
It's a type of coral
>> Anonymous
perhaps a tree branch with a large gall on it just happened to fall in the water?
>> Anonymous
>>114975
WTF would make a gall that big? What other information was there about the location and conditions this was caught in?
>> Anonymous
looks like either an egg mass or a saltwater seasquirt. perhaps an invertabrate of some kind?
>> Anonymous
its coral on a piece of driftwood.