First, there were " Frankenstein rabbits ," and now there are "cursed gummy bears."

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) shared a reminder on Facebook about the odd things you can find living in U.S. lakes. On August 17, the agency posted a photo on social media of someone holding what appears to be a large ball of gelatinous goo.

But appearances can be deceiving, and the truth behind the photo is something much more "magnificent."

"Cursed Gummy Bear? Nope, just a magnificent bryozoan doing its thing," USFWS started the caption of its post.

The agency added that the magnificent bryozoan may look like "a gummy, a pile of frog eggs, a mutant brain, or a sci-fi nightmare," but it's actually a community of zooids, "tiny, filter-feeding creatures."

One magnificent bryozoan blob c

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