Kalashnikov-47 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/30/...-oceans-depths/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Huey Gunner Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 yyeesssshhhh!!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlie Cheetah Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 As an Maritimer and having spent all my life on the east coast and having eaten lobster, crablegs and many types of shellfish, I can agree with the last Reddit poster in the article. I bet those legs would be mighty tasty boiled in seawater and served with melted garlic butter. :unsure: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sig Saur & Son Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Is it April 1st? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Huey Gunner Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Is it April 1st?Not yet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RedHeadKevin Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Isn't that one of those things from Cloverfield? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bonehammer73 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 (edited) That's a Bathynomus - a large woodlouse, basically. Creepy, but pretty vanilla as sea creatures go. Now Loosejaw on the other hand... (I'll leave the pleasure of Googling it up to you, or I'll spend the rest of the afternoon copypasting pics of black devils and gulper eels. I love deep sea monsters...) Edited March 31, 2010 by Bonehammer73 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spruemeister Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Put. It. Back. Before it's mother finds out its missing and comes looking. Rick L. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DutyCat Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Awesome. Deep Sea Gigantism? Great! I wonder what else is down there? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ventura_kelley Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 That's a Bathynomus - a large woodlouse, basically. Creepy, but pretty vanilla as sea creatures go.Now Loosejaw on the other hand... (I'll leave the pleasure of Googling it up to you, or I'll spend the rest of the afternoon copypasting pics of black devils and gulper eels. I love deep sea monsters...) Stoplight loosejaw? I don't get what's so bad about that... Give me something that crawls around under your skin and eats you from the inside out. Now that would be "horrifying". Put. It. Back. Before it's mother finds out its missing and comes looking.Rick L. :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bonehammer73 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Stoplight loosejaw? I don't get what's so bad about that... The mouth of Komatsu design, the double teeth àla Alien, and the fact that its head is very loosely attached to the rest of it. Of course, your mileage may vary... Give me something that crawls around under your skin and eats you from the inside out. Now that would be "horrifying". I live to serve: Tumbu fly Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GGoheen Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 That isopod is cool and I'll bet yummy too! Greg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sean Bratton Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 I thought Multi-National United was had these things contained in District 9? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Big Kev Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 There's just something fishy about that story... Kev Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TXCajun Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Being a Cajun originally from South Louisiana, I'm thinking that this would go well with some potatoes, smoked sausage, onions, corn, and about five pounds of Zatarans crab boil in a 30 gallon pot! Aahhh-yi! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Av8fan Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 I miss the Lobster and Shrimp dinners from when I was a kid. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loftycomfort Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 That isopod is cool and I'll bet yummy too! :wub: Greg I bet even yummier as sashimi! Terry (who's having lobsters for dinner tonight) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mkimages Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 They're pretty cool n, but they look a bit too close to for me to ever try eating one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kalashnikov-47 Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 (edited) Bonehammer73, it looks a lot like a trilobite. Is it descended from those? That is one ugly you-know-what! It also reminds me of those microscopic dust mite things that live in/on mattresses and eat dead skin. Edited April 1, 2010 by Kalashnikov-47 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bonehammer73 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 (edited) Bonehammer73, it looks a lot like a trilobite. Is it descended from those? That is one ugly you-know-what!It also reminds me of those microscopic dust mite things that live in/on mattresses and eat dead skin. I'm not that great on arthropods (my specialisation was in Genetics, and we bio-molecular gals used to look down upon the 'roach counters' studying Systematics...) but as far as I know, isopod crustaceans such as this one would be very loosely related to trilobites, although they do look similar from a distance - think birds and bats. The similarity comes from the Isopods having 'reinvented' a segmented body armour. They are in the same order with the common woodlice: The closest living relative of the trilobites: is the horseshoe crab: (its segments fuse together in a two-part shell during development) whereas mites are very different, being not crustaceans but insects - different internal organs and all. All traces of segmentations have disappeared: Hope this helps, Bonehammer Edited April 1, 2010 by Bonehammer73 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kalashnikov-47 Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 Thanks! I collect trilobites, but to be honest, I know very little about them. Usually, I just see one I like and buy it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mark M. Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 I call april fool's joke on this one. Some inconsistencies in the story. Doesn't know where it was? ROVs at 8500 feet? Really? You sure about that? Seems a bit far-fetched. Plus the photo just doesn't look right. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
illithid00 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 So, who's up for a trip down to the deep sea bed to snag some lunch? I'll bring the butter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pigsty Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 I call april fool's joke on this one.Some inconsistencies in the story. Doesn't know where it was? ROVs at 8500 feet? Really? You sure about that? Seems a bit far-fetched. Plus the photo just doesn't look right. Even Fox News would (probably) manage to get an April Fool joke out on 1 April. Giant isopods are real, as other posters have explained, along with ample information about their place in the arthropod world. Inconsistencies in the story can probably be explained by Fox accidentally including some facts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 I call april fool's joke on this one.Some inconsistencies in the story. Doesn't know where it was? ROVs at 8500 feet? Really? You sure about that? Seems a bit far-fetched. Plus the photo just doesn't look right. Why is ROVs at that depth far fetched ? They've been much deeper than that, Titanic is deeper than that ... Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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