- Photo by Richard Turner, via io9
“It wasn’t attached to the ground or anything,” explained [Richard] Turner in an email to io9, “[it was] just lying there in the grass. I’ve shown the picture to a bunch of people and nobody has any idea what it is.”
Turner described the mass as unusually soft, almost like jello, a characteristic he deduced by poking at it with a pen. Even though it didn’t appear to be alive, Turner said he “didn’t want to touch it or bring it home, since I just saw Prometheus, and know better than to get my face close to it.”

I think it just needs love.
THE I09 COMMENTERS IDENTIFIED THIS THING AS A DEFLATED DOG TOY. VERY BUSY NEWS DAY OVER IN THE MERC OFFICES.
that, i believe, is satan’s poopy-hole…..somehow it became detached…..
who knew that he (she?) (it?) lives in scandinavia???
I will click on any link you throw up on twitter that is prefaced with, “No no kill it!”
@Graham – Seriously? I can kind of see it, but that is some excellent prep work to make it look so horrifying.
I know exactly what this is.