[ot] Dire Squid

[Drakron]

I have see one ... a giant one I belive ....

Oh yes, they are impressive.

 

[Aeolius]

did anyone see the other article about the giant pig?? cool stuff

IT'S......BACON!!!

 

[Darkness]

The article states that they can operate on the surface, despite being abyssal.

I hope that this 'can' is much, much more close to a 'could' than to a 'do. '

Why is this bad? I live in New Zealand. Between my house and Antarctica is (well, beyond the South Island) empty abyssal ocean.

And I thought it was bad having giant squid territory ten kilometers due South (and a couple down)... (Cook Strait. Find it on a map. It's deep.)

Ouch.

 

[tleilaxu]

gah! dire pig!

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

I heard about this today in my AP Biology class--that's some crazy crap right there! The article that my teacher was reading said that these things are probably quite nasty--the hook things on its tentacles, if i remember correctly, would rotate nearly 360 degrees. Biological blender, anyone?

 

[Agnostic Paladin]

And yet sperm whales eat them. Go Mammals!

 

[Crothian]

Cool creature but it is the alga caulerpa taxifolia that really needs to be feared.

 

[Dungannon]

Cool creature but it is the alga caulerpa taxifolia that really needs to be feared.

Leave it to you to bring up an aquatic ooze.

 

[Crothian]

Leave it to you to bring up an aquatic ooze.

It's a plant. Grows up to an inch a day, reproduces through self cloning, so any little bit of it will fully grow into the plant, and animals don't eat it so it spreads fast killing off the normal plants that fish eat leaving the animlas the choices of moving onward or starving.

 

[Aeolius]

if I get my webcam back up, I'll train it on a clump of caulerpa growing in my 250 gallon tank