The Blob....Lives?

It sounds like some kind of horror movie:

"Something" is found drifting in the ocean off the coast of Alaska.  At first locals think it's an oil slick.  Government officials fly out and take samples and say it's definitely not an oil slick.  In fact, they say, it's biological.

But the truth is, such a thing does exist and is floating in the ocean, off the coast of Alaska:

Apparently it also consumes.  According to the coast guard: "some jellyfish tangled up in the stuff, and someone turned in what was left of a dead goose -- just bones and feathers"

"It kind of has an odor; I can't describe it," says Petty Officer 1st Class Terry Hasenaue.

They've taken samples of the goo and sent them for analysis, but so far no one knows what it is.  Further, locals have never seen such a creature before.

"That's one of the reasons we went out, because in recent history I don't think we've seen anything like this," he said. "Maybe inside lakes or in stagnant water or something, but not (in the ocean) that we could recall ...

"If it was something we'd seen before, we'd be able to say something about it. But we haven't ...which prompted concerns from the local hunters and whaling captains."