The 14-year-olds became Britain’s youngest parents

docks and branches, pulsing under dark water.

Parents panicked. Kids whispered about body snatchers.

Social media screamed “alien egg pods,” and the images only got weirder.

They aren’t from outer space, and they’re not here to hatch inside us.

The “alien egg pods” terrifying swimmers and going viral online are

actually bryozoan colonies—ancient freshwater continue reading …