Bizarre 'face-hugging' fungus found

[Still Waters]

IT looks like a deadly alien from a terrifying sci-fi movie.

But this bizarre-looking species is actually a harmless mushroom that has been found growing wild in the New Forest National Park.

Ecologist Dan Hoare, who works for the charity Butterfly Conservation, was on a visit to the Forest when he came across the fungus.

Minutes after his arrival foul-smelling tentacles burst from an egg-like sack and reached out into the air.

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[tcgram]

Quite unique.

[+Hammerclaw]

Somebody call Dr Gordon Freeman.

[Keel M.]

I want to see pics of this actual "hugging".

[tcgram]

You go first.

[quasar_kid]

Landkraken.

[jarjarbinks]

that's why you need to carry a flamethrower around everytime

[C.J.]

It actually doesnt look much like a face hugger at all. It looks more like the giant gods off of the first hellboy movie.

[Galactic Goatman]

Nuke it from orbit!

...Its the only way to be sure.

[Sundew]

I have had two other Stinkhorn Fungi species come up in my yard one orange and the other more typical of a mushroom, white with a dark cap. They really do smell nasty, almost nauseating. And the second one was in the genus Phallus so you can guess what it looked like.