A giant mass of goo has formed and is moving through the Chukchi Sea in Alaska.

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It’s a scene straight out of “The Blob.” A giant mass of goo has formed and is moving through the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. Hunters first noticed the slime early last week, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The substance is dark and thick and can be seen for miles in the sea. The Coast Guard is sure the mystery gunk is a biological creation and has ruled out an oil spill or hazardous substance. But the goo remains a puzzle, as Alaskans can’t remember seeing anything similar before, the ADN reported. “That’s one of the reason we went out, because in recent history I don’t think we’ve seen anything like this,” Gordon Brower, a spokesman for North Slope Borough’s Planning and Community Services Department, told the ADN. “Maybe inside lakes or in stagnant water or something, but not (in the ocean) that we could recall” The goo has a distinct odor to it as well, Brower said. The gunk is being tested in a lab and Brower believes it to be a naturally occurring phenomenon most likely a giant algae bloom.)

Just got this in my Feed reader from the RSOE EDIS - Emergency and Disaster Information feed:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/rss/disrss-eng.php

Here it is:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert...=eng&cid=22392

Then I searched Google news and found 5 articles:
http://www.adn.com/2835/story/864687.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ear...ating-goo.html
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/911316.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_w...n_alaska_.html
http://www.freep.com/article/2009071...f-floating-goo