Black goop in the alaskan rivers! And its alive.

Don't open if grossed out.
http://storyballoon.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/video-blob-of-bio-goo-floating-around-the-artic-sea/
Any ideas?

*Isconfused*
That's really odd. It looks like oil, but they said it isn't. I have no idea what the hell that is.

Ugh disgusting. Personally, i think it's some kind of oil. Or maybe dead black jelly fish.

That doesnt uh ... look very nice at all, very gross, I agree it does look a bit like oil.

To far North to be a Jelly Fish

Call the ghostbusters! It's living slime!

Ughh... The slime of death...

More like a huge protozoan than oil to me...

Nothing says it's living; but it's algae if it is.

Ugh... That's revolting! I don't have a clue what it is, either. Maybe oil?

Its not oil or any hazardous substance.

I expect some scientists are going to run some experiments on it soon >.>

It all makes sense now! Sarah Palin's administration created this! That is why she resigned! So the terrible organism she created in her diabolical expiraments wouldn't be blamed on her! It's just a matter of time before it metamorphasizes and helps her concur the world!

To the panic room!

I think it's just a new species of Slime Mold. Slime mold is mold on land or ocean that is motile, and it looks like slime.

That my friend is none other than mouldy slurry, probably dumped or fell off the back of a fishing liner and drifted in with the tide.

looks like black oil to me... maybe it was exposed to something which let it move

it looks like poo.

but it's something bad, i assume.

Guess calm down srsly for Pokemon fans you're all a bit jumpy.

It's only a Grimer, watch out for Muk though, yikes!!

BTW to the OP, it never says anywhere that the stuff is moving by itself or that it's alive, it says it is floating along. Just thought I'd mention that for the record.