Certainly is different. But I’m not really that interested myslef, I’m not into sea creatures.
Not even for a quick snack.
That is one crappy picture, i cant tell what the hell that blob is. So i say they get a better picture, one that acutally looks like a squid more than a blob. It is probablya gaint squid, i just think theny needed a better pic, thats all.
Wow, so cool. Hope they show the finding on some Discovery Channel special(preferably when I can find a tv around here that gets the discovery channel).
It’s alive, and it only got caught on something because it wrapped its tentacle around it. I’m sure they have higher quality pictures somewhere, just haven’t been linked to/uploaded yet. Once they get done with them, they’ll be here.
They also have fucking huge salamanders there. I’m told they get between four and six feet, maybe the biggest in the world, but I haven’t looked at any information about them lately.
Anyway, I predict that the Miskatonic Fighting Cephalopods will take the bowl this year.
<i>Go 'Pods!</i>
In other news, today in searching for more squid pictures I read an article about a gelatinous blob the size of a school bus washing up on the shore in ______. (hold on while I look up the place again, ha ha). It’s speculated that the blob is a decomposing giant octopus!
Giant octopus…i thought it was suppose to be giant squid…damn.
There are both giant squids and giant octopi, Nightmare. Actually, many sea animals have a “giant version”. For example, there are other mollusks, giant clams, that can weight up to half a ton.
IA! IA! CTHULHU PHGTAN R’LEIGH!
That is SO cool! Those are huge fucking bivalves!
And what’s more, they’re also huge <i>mollusks</i>.
Aw fuck!!! It’s spelled mollusks?? I did my sculpture project, which was about families, and I took the literal approach and did it on the mollusk family… I made letters made out of plaster with muscles and clams… but I spelled it mullusks!!! man!!! I feel stupid now.
ok back to the thread. Squids are awesome. They’re also mullusks!
The order itself is <i>mollusca</i> but I think they are called “mollusks” in common parlance.
Who cares, though? Spelling in English has only been nailed down for a few centuries. And the great claw-hammer that is the Internet has been working at it for as long as I’ve been alive.
Drink a beer, sit back and enjoy the apocalypse.
God DAAAAMN!!! Giant squids are teh cool!
So yeah, this is interesting. I’d like to see the longest of these freaky things!
Read about it in the china daily today. Nifty.
But I think there are much more interesting weird animals in the deep blue sea. o.o Some real freaky things, and huuuge things, and did I mention freaky?
Especially those freaky jellyfish, and those animals they discovered that are all between whale and fish, or between crustae and fish, or in any other way don’t have a certain category yet because they show characteristics of different species. Not only in very deep, but also in arctic regions for example.
Check this out:
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/06/13/bloop/
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05deepscope/logs/aug27/media/ocyropsis.html << damn thats weird
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05arctic/background/deepseafauna/media/snailfish.html
http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/research/arcdiv/seabottom/porifera/deep-sea-sponge.html
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05arctic/logs/july6/july6.html
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05deepscope/logs/aug24/aug24.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1220_TVweirdsquid.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050704/erenna.html :o
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050905/katrinasea.html << very recent
COOL 
Thanks, DT!
And yay for the crystal sponge!
Edit: Bloop
It does sounds like a whale. Yet I’m reluctant to suggest the possibility of a single burst of sound produced by a pod of whales in unison.
This one is also freaky and unidentified, looks like a plane falling -> http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds/noise97139.wav
These ones really gave me the creep -> Acoustics Monitoring Program - Upsweep
OMG underwater chilly wind of terror -> Acoustics Monitoring Program - Submarine Volcanic Eruption (Whistle)
edit: Now this is what I’d like to hear XD: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050926/dolphin.html
Sept. 29, 2005 — Scientists have taught dolphins to combine both rhythm and vocalizations to produce music, which has resulted in an extremely high-pitched, short version of the “Batman” theme song.
o_O Dolphins singing/squealing the batman theme song!?
EDIT: You CAN listen to it. The link is right there.
http://mfile.akamai.com/9765/rm/covery.download.akamai.com/9765/news/2004/audio/Resident_calls.ram?obj=V001 << dolphin pplaying the song
http://mfile.akamai.com/9765/wma/covery.download.akamai.com/9765/news/2004/audio/Resident_calls.asx?obj=V001 << dolphin “singing” it