Terrifying Sea "Critter" Hauled from Ocean's Depths- comments are INANE, but then it IS Fox "News"

[Ian David]

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Terrifying Sea Critter Hauled from Ocean's Depths
By Jeremy A. Kaplan
- FOXNews.com (sic)

A submarine exploring the ocean's depths recently returned with an unexpected visitor: a crablike critter that has left many readers startled and horrified.

In a posting to social bookmarking site Reddit, a deep-sea technician detailed the finding, asking the site's readers to help identify what exactly the bizarre looking creature was.

The post reads, "I work for a Sub-sea Survey Company, recently this beast came up attached to one of our ROVs. It measures a wee bit over 2.5 feet head to tail, and we expect it latched onto the ROV at roughly 8,500 feet depth. Unfortunately, the e-mail that these pictures were attached to came from a contractor, and the ship he was operating from (and therefore location) is unknown, so I can't tell you what part of the Earth this beast was living."

The pictures reveal the creature to be a giant isopod, a large crustacean that dwells in deep Atlantic and Pacific waters. This particular creature is a Bathynomus giganteus, a deep-sea scavenger that feeds on dead whales, fish and squid.

Scientists have long remarked on the massive scale of this creature. C.R. McClain wrote on ScienceBlogs explained one theory for the size, that "deep-sea gigantism, for all crustaceans, is a consequence of larger cells sizes obtained under cold temperatures," citing a research paper from 1996.



More:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/30/terrifying-sea-critter-from-oceans-depths/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20foxnews/latest%20%28Text%20-%20Latest%20Headlines%29

Attack its weak point, for massive damage.

[hatrack]

1. Sheesh, "Terrifying Sea Critter" - it's a freakin' ISOPOD

God, have these people ever even watched a nature program before?

[Ian David]

3. BREAKING: Giant Raccoon-like creature terrifies Fox "News" Audience

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. OMG!

A ZOMBIE bear!

[damyank913]

16. Fox news would call that a GODLESS zombie bear.

[nykym]

6. No silly

they depend on FOX for all their daily entertainment. I'll bet they even hid the remote on the of chance someone might want to watch something else. Oh forgot they do change the channel for whatever sports event is on another channel. LOL. Incidentally we watch a lot of nature shows and my daughter at times protests to no avail, yet when in class and she knows the answer because of watching said nature shows everyone asks how she knew, We watch a lot of nature shows on tv.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. Do they carry nature programs on Fox? If not, they probably haven't.

I notice one of the comments even managed to take a swipe at Al Gore and global warming since the article mentioned it lived in cold water depths.

[Botany]

2. mmmmmmmm sea creature

[Deep13]

4. Jeez, and I thought Cleveland's W.25th St. was a rough neighborhood!

Remind me not hang around on the ocean floor!

[thecrow]

5. Looks like a giant lobster tail to me.....

Yum?
:sarcasm:

[lazer47]

7. Actually it looks like a giant cockroach,, AKA Glenn Beck

[Wickerman]

8. further supports my practice of programming Fox out of any hotel

or public TV I come across.

There is enough ignorance on this planet already.

[frogmarch]

11. It's a giant isopod.

from wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod

Giant isopods are of little interest to most commercial fisheries owing to the typical scarcity of catches and because ensnared isopods are usually scavenged beyond marketability before they are recovered. However, 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 species are noted for resemblance to the common woodlouse or pill bug, with which they are related. The few specimens caught in the Americas with baited traps are sometimes seen in public aquaria.

[Fumesucker]

12. This is worse..

Giant coconut crab..

[pokerfan]

14. Yeah, those critters are awesome

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. It has to be said, the front view is pretty damn cool ...

Damn, it's so cool it's wearing mirror shades!

[krispos42]

15. On Fark they called it "the creature from Stephen King's 'The Mist'"

I was thinking more like the "lobstrocites" in The Dark Tower II

[damyank913]

17. I better get an extra can of Raid.

[Duer 157099]

18. Terrifying? That thing looks *delicious*! n/t

[Odin2005]

19. TRILOBITE!!!

:rofl: