VIDEO: 'DRAGON BOOGERS' FOUND IN A CANADIAN LAKE

Alright fine, they aren’t actual dragon bogies! But, you can see why people are referring to this big glob of goo as if it were. These globs are called, Pectinatella Magnifica, and are actually a part of a healthy ecosystem, the work they do is somewhat admirable. It eats microscopic organisms in the water, acting as a filter when it feeds. The Missouri Department of Conservation states that one of these creatures usually indicates good water quality.

Pectinatella Magnifica are members of phylum Bryozoa, in layman's terms – a type of moss. This ‘moss’ dates back roughly 500 million years and includes 4000 different species. They can occur in tropical waters, oceanic trenches, polar waters and a few in freshwater environments too. This glob is just a colony of organisms that bind together and now appear to be well established across North America and spreading West. Most recently, these tiny marine invertebrates were found near the Lost Lagoon in Stanely Park Vancouver, Canada. This lagoon has a biofiltration pond attached to it to help clean runoff water from the nearby roads and it just happens to be the perfect environment for these creatures. So now the lagoon has an abundance of them and all I can say about that is, if I were tempted to take a dip in the lagoon and that thing touched me, I would do the freaky flipping-running-on-water dance all the way back to shore!