The strange gloop, found at the Ham Wall nature reserve in the UK, mysteriously appeared around the same time as a meteor crashed to earth in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
An amateur photographer claimed he had captured a mysterious object whizzing through the sky above the park on camera. The object appeared to be a meteor, although this was not confirmed by astronomers.
An amateur photographer claimed he had captured a mysterious object whizzing through the sky above the park on camera. The object appeared to be a meteor, although this was not confirmed by astronomers.
Nature buffs claimed the slime was merely frogspawn, while others said it was 'star jelly', a strange substance said to appear when meteors fall to earth, which has continued to stump scientists.
The London museum's Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity, which houses the Identification and Advisory Service, was tasked with investigating the mysterious slime, with the aim of establishing whether it had fallen from space, or if its origins were rather more terrestrial.
Laboratory tests have so far failed to find just what it could be - and where it had come from.
Scientists from the unit extracted DNA from the jelly and tried to match it against that of birds and frogs, without success.
DNA traces of worms and bacteria were found in the substance, but these were not thought to have been the source of the slim, and had more likely come from organisms which colonised the matter.
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