Alien Life-Form Discovered In Pennsylvania
Over the weekend of June 7th, an interesting discovery was made by Pittsburgh native Devon Shaffer, 28. Mr. Shaffer was emptying out the trash during his shift at the Pasta Too Restaurant in North Side Pittsburgh when he found something in the leftover pierogi grease that hasÂ put the scientific community on its head.âWell, it was âround âbout 8 oâclock, and I was taking the trash out for Jimmy on account of his bum knee. I tossed the bag up in da dumpster and awnest ta God I âbout crapped myself when I seen it. There was like one of dem coral things like what you find over at Myrtle Beach or something, just layinâ there in some of dat old pierogi oil!âExcited over the oddity, Devon took the object intoÂ the restaurantÂ to share with his co-workers.âI was like, yuz guys ainât gonna believe this. Jimmy took one look at it anâ was all âYou need ta take that ova to Marty at the aquarium!â so I did.âShaffer took his discover toÂ Dr. Martin Steinbeck at the PPG Aquarium in Pittsburgh. Over the course of the weekend, Dr. Steinbeck ran tests on the specimen to figure out what the object was, and hopefully discover its mystery.âThis is not a piece of coral, at least not as we know it.â Said Dr. Steinbeck. âRegular, everydayÂ coral exists in the ocean as a living organism, itâs thisÂ hard coral that we see most often. They have a âskeletonâ or shell made out of calcium carbonate, and someÂ softer corals donât form aÂ skeleton at all. The piece that Mr. Shaffer brought me looks very much like a regular hard coral, but there is anÂ absence of that calcium carbonate in its make-up. AfterÂ running tests on it, I discovered that his specimenÂ was building itsÂ skeleton out of the peanut oil used to fry the perogies at Pasta Too. This means that not only is this a new species, but the fact that it can react with proteins in oilÂ this means that its DNA is fundamentally different, alien from anything weâve ever encountered on Earth.âThe news has created a stir in the scientific communtiy, with several labs requesting samples of the specimen from both Dr. Steinbeck and Mr. Shaffer for further analysis. Â Steinbeck has said he no longer has the specimen in his possession, as when news broke of the discovery government officials took ownership and brought it in for their own research.