Nature Reserve Found to Have Mysterious Slime

  • 11 years ago
The Ham Wall nature reserve is home to a mysterious slime.

While visiting a natural park, you can witness many beautiful animals and scenery. Well a nature reserve in Somerset, United Kingdom, known as Ham Wall is a wetland home to otters, kingfishers. A recent addition to the nature reserve is a mysterious thick, slime.

Experts are confused as to what the goo could be and where it originated from. The substance has been found on the grass banks away from the water’s edge. As a precaution, nature reserve visitors are urged to not too touch it.

While some speculate the slime appears to be living, others think that it is regurgitated internal parts of amphibians. A spokesperson for Ham Wall, Tony Whitehead states “ It's great that in this day and age that there are still mysteries out there.”

Recently, seabirds washed up on shores in England covered in a greasy, slime-like substance. Although researchers believed the birds were coated in a refined mineral-based oil mixture, it was unclear where it came from.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals worked to rescue the flying creatures, many of which were injured.