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Bryozoans, annelid worms, cnideria, slime molds, or shoggoth spawn.

Take your best guess.

or wtf knows...

Looks like a salt water sea worm to me, but in one view you can see spines like a sea urchin? Creepy.

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I win, it's a worm. Although fresh water worm. Kinda tubiflex family.

Dr. Timothy S. Wood who is an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association

No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting.

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