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New Deep Ocean Creatures
An anonymous reader writes "NORFANZ was a recent expedition that went really deep into the ocean in the search for new species that live in the largely unchartered waters of the Tasman Sea. Check out the site and some very cool pics."
closely resembles one of the 'sea monsters' that lived in/near The Core in Phantom Menace. Shame it didn't eat Jar Jar....
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That's some deep seamen.
I have a feeling someone isn't going to be very happy when they get to work this morning.
Nothin' better than new beasts. And sea-beasts are the most interesting beasts of all!
How do they taste?
doesn't it become Guillon?
Did you see the size of that? I'm just imagining how that would taste dipped in clarified garlic butter right now...
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So the Tasmanian sea doesn't lease itself out too much?
I'm thinking that should be uncharted, as in no charts have been drawn up mapping it...
Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
Not only do I not like seafood, but looking at underwater life just turns my stomach.
The fish don't bother me, but the crabs and other oddball forms are just too weird. Everything is either spiny or gooey.
Blech!!!
I see they discovered the goblin shrimp, but did they discover this species
"Beware the squirrels"
Incredible! Finally, an authentic photograph of Cowboy Neal!
You just never know...
Hoist Number One and Number Six.
Firstly they have wonky eyes, the left eye is always much larger than the right.
If they're going to throw technical jargon like that at us, I'll be completely lost.
And to think, normally men categorize women as the leaches in society (though not necessarily a fair assessment.)
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In this species, the male latches on to the female and doesn't let go.
Man, where can I get a job like that?
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Honk if you're horny.
I read somewhere that the big blob that washed up on the coast of Chile was one of Pamela Anderson's old implants.
Read any good sonnets lately?
Did they find Nemo yet?
I can count to 1023 on my hands. Ask me about #132.
of reading this article while eating my lunch
If you can read this sig - the bitch fell off.
Proof positive that being a nice, sensitive guy who listens to girls' feelings and wants and desires only gets you put into the "gay" zone while being a parasitic leech who only uses girls for food and fucks gets all the play.
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I'm reading every post with a french accent.
Smelly and hard to clean, tho.
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I'm quite angry at the continued use of the word "baffle" in headlines regarding this fleshy anomaly. You see, when I first saw it on cnn.com last week, I thought it said, "Giant sea creature BATTLES Chilean scientists." Now that would be pretty fucking cool. Not that a fucking huge part of some weird creature isn't also pretty cool, it's just not as cool as a battle between a bunch of scientists and a living weird creature.
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Sorta reminds me of some guys I know...
I know I've seen him somewhere... Isn't PHOTO 10 a spokesman for SCO?
I want to die in my sleep, like my dear old great-grandad... not like all the screaming wusses in the car he hit!
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I dunno, it sure looked like a giant "specimen" to me, if you know what I mean...
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In other news, scientists have discovered that, with low enough light levels, green, blue, pink, white, and mauve all look black! The scientists involved are currently waiting for a government grant to test such properties on the elusive plaid.
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I'm getting a lot of press today!
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When he eventually finds her (in the dark), he latches on to her side (with his hooked teeth) and drinks her food-rich blood in return for producing the sperm she needs when it comes time to release her eggs." "Like other anglerfishes, males are very different. They are small and have simple fins. In this species, the male latches on to the female and doesn't let go. Their skin fuses and he stays as a permanent pimple with eyes, drinking blood and making sperm."
:)
Sounds like some human spouses I have met!
Keep that guy away from the zoo and, dare I say it, public swimming pools! ;)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Sea Bass extinction? That's easy to avoid... just strap some freakin' "lasers" to their heads.
(Score:5, Funny) - ahhh no! can't you dumb /. mods see this parent post is a troll - all we have here is 3 penis's!
Are we going to end up harvesting plankton a la SOylent Green?
Soylent Green is people, not plankton.
At least you'll remember how they tasted.
Actually, he was saying they look this way because they're much more highly evolved than any other species on the planet. Sure, it looks ugly and crazy to us, but we just don't understand their superpowers. They will reveal them in time.
And I, for one, will welcome our new ichthyoid overlords!