Big Black Blob...

Strange news this morning. It seems that there is a black blob developing in the Pacific Ocean in Northern Alaska...and It is on the move.

"There was only one thing officials knew for sure -- it wasn't an oil slick. "It's certainly biological," Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Terry Hasenauer told the newspaper earlier this week. "It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter."

Hasenauer sent samples to the State Environmental Health Laboratory in Anchorage, which discovered the goop "primarily contained marine algae," according to a brief report issued Thursday by Analytical Chemistry Manager Emanuel Hignutt Jr. There's still a mystery surrounding the blobs. No one along the North Slope has ever encountered the stuff in the ocean before, and scientists don't know what produced this bizarre algae bloom.

Who knows, maybe we have just made a discovery that will contain the cure to cancer or teach us about a new species. I for one find this sort of story exciting. You never know just what is around the corner....or floating in the water!