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That's not an animal! That's an ALIEN!
Hellsinger
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z81I4L5jRXI
The clip—from a Shell oil company ROV (remotely operated vehicle)—arrived after a long, circuitous trip through oil-industry in-boxes and other email accounts. In a few seconds of jerky camerawork, the squid appears with its huge fins waving like elephant ears and its remarkable arms and tentacles trailing from elbow-like appendages. Despite the squid's apparent unflappability on camera, Magnapinna, or "big fin," squid remain largely a mystery to science. ROVs have filmed Magnapinna squid a dozen or so times in the Gulf and the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. (Information: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-giant-squid-magnapinna.html)
So SE, I want to see your "That's not an animal, What the hell IS that thing!?" posts.
What have YOU found lurking on the internet?
The clip—from a Shell oil company ROV (remotely operated vehicle)—arrived after a long, circuitous trip through oil-industry in-boxes and other email accounts. In a few seconds of jerky camerawork, the squid appears with its huge fins waving like elephant ears and its remarkable arms and tentacles trailing from elbow-like appendages. Despite the squid's apparent unflappability on camera, Magnapinna, or "big fin," squid remain largely a mystery to science. ROVs have filmed Magnapinna squid a dozen or so times in the Gulf and the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. (Information: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-giant-squid-magnapinna.html)
So SE, I want to see your "That's not an animal, What the hell IS that thing!?" posts.
What have YOU found lurking on the internet?
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that thing can't be real
It is though, and we better be ready for it.
Ohh, but it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnapinna_talismani
Best part of the entire book, that scene.
That squid thing is really weird and cool, I bet it's one of Cthulhu's offspring
that video is really real?
fuck!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod
Though I suppose that would make one HELL of a shrimp platter...
in Northern Taiwan and other areas, they are not uncommon at seaside restaurants, served boiled and bisected with a clean lateral slice. The white meat, similar to crab or lobster in texture, is then easily removed. The few specimens caught in the Americas with baited traps are sometimes seen in public aquaria.
Aww it so cu-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg
HRRGLBHGR FUCK WHAT IS IT
Or make a career in Asia as a tentacle... nevermind.
AND THEY'RE SO LONG
so named on account of it has elbows
why it was not named the brain-frying psycho death squid, the world may never know.
how long until they storm our shores, all of our shores?
Got it.
YOG-SOTHOTH, SAVE ME
talk to the Humboldt squid, one mean motherfucker who is currently invading our West coast
apparently if left unchecked they could take over a large portion of the ocean as top predators
Please tell me that thing is NOT TO SCALE!
the squid is on a mission for unadulterated world domination
our only hope is to have rocketed into space before their brains develop any more and their color-changing skincells develop into Predator-style cloaking fields.
I'm not really stupid enough to have to ask.
Japanese giant salamander.
Our only hope is to move to space.
Then nuke everything from orbit. Leave nothing for them to follow us with.
If they really want to chase us down they'll have to develope space travel on their own.
No because I don't want to be a faggot
I remember watching some discovery channel special where some hybrid species of squid will conquer the earth after we're gone.
Scientists theorize that they'll come up to land and start ruining everyone's shit with these badass tentacles.
D'AAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
research shows evidence of the Humboldt squid hunting in groups
also these guys are pretty funky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Man_o'_War