Giant creatures in Antarctic sea
Researchers in Antarctic's Ross Sea found huge starfish, sea snails, and jellyfish with tentacles 12-feet long. The exploration of 2,000 miles of New Zealand's Antarctic waters also revealed "meadows of sea lilies" hundreds of yards across and potentially hundreds of new species, including several mollusks. From the Associated Press:
LinkThe survey was part of the International Polar Year program involving 23 countries in 11 voyages to survey marine life and habitats around Antarctica. The program hopes to set benchmarks for determining the effects of global warming on Antarctica, researchers said...
Cold temperatures, a small number of predators, high levels of oxygen in the sea water and even longevity could explain the size of some specimens, said (Don) Robertson, a scientist with (the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research).
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"We passed through the silent white forest, miles of black water pressing down on us from above...and then the alien fish started clustering together, pressing against the glass of the bathyscape. As we sat there in our fragile bubble, they spoke to us in a sibiliant tongue not heard since the dawn of time, telling us of the wonders and horrors of the coming dark age, the age that would begin once the thing that lay below us on the ocean floor rose to the surface. Unknowing, we had disturbed it from its slumber with our probings...we had become the harbingers of doom for all mankind..."
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"Cold temperatures, a small number of predators, high levels of oxygen in the sea water and even longevity could explain the size of some specimens..."
my first thought there was "absence of resort hotels" could explain the size of the specimans. i shudder to think of what the oceans were like even a hundred years ago in comaprison to today.
This must be where the cloverfields are from.
Great... More stuff that the U.S will single handedly destroy...
But where are my Old Ones? Or my Deep Ones...
I´m so disappointed...
just say the Word.
"More stuff that the U.S will single handedly destroy..."
Right... because India, China, Germany, Japan, Dubai, Indonesia, Singapore, etc, etc have no industry, no pollution, and do no damage to anything in the entire world.
That kinda looks like Patrick!
I'm reminded of the jellyfish, etc. from "Sphere"...
It's funny you say that #4... When I saw new [...] mollusks, the first thing I thought was "I wonder if they're yummy."
That said, I think there are plenty of countries on the list above the US in the "destroying ocean-life" category.
jellyfish with tentacles 12-feet long?
Thats nothing. The Lions Mane Jellyfish is actually the longest creature on earth, with tentacles 120 feet long and a diameter of seven ft and native to the antipodes. Looks like Antarctica isn't so special now.
It's all part of a Nazi breeding program that didn't end with WWII! They also have underground caverns with U-Boots and nuclear weapons and all sorts of other cool Nazi stuff!
We're DOOMED!
/I read too much pulp fiction, maybe
They've cloned Maggie Simpson!
And good god, "Two by two, hands of blue". This can't be good.
The important question is: How does it taste? If you can't eat it, what good is it? I assume that Kentucky fried starfish will have a good deal of Omega-3 fatty acids. Mmmmmm...starfish.
Moon: it was Stalin who was breeding giant seafood. The Nazis just messed around with raccoons. (Yes, really.)
"huge sea snails and starfish the size of big food platters". I find their choice of size reference amusing.