Darth Vader-like creature "is replacing red crabs in the habitat we have sampled"

[Generic Other]

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USM's Gulf Coast Research Lab studying oil spill impact, WLOX, November 3, 2010:

Transcrript Excerpts "From the trapping survey, we found a less healthy population. They were dead, most of them were dead when they arrived at the surface. They had enough energy to get in the trap and normally they will survive that trip from the bottom to the surface. We found fewer numbers and at one of our productive sites, we didn't find any red crabs," said. Perhaps more unusual than the absence of crabs, was the abundance of another species. "This is the deep sea isopod, bathenomis," Perry said, while holding one of the strange looking creatures, "And it is replacing red crabs in the habitat we have sampled so far." This bizarre looking creature, with a face like Darth Vader, has always been there though little is known about it.

[w4rma]

1. It looks like a giant cockroach. (nt)

[Generic Other]

2. All you can eat bathenomis at Red Lobster!!

That is creepy. Must be fleeing their own polluted habitat.

[KT2000]

3. Creepy looking

hope they are able to learn more about it.

[beforeyoureyes]

4. God, that creature is frightening.. weird toxic comic book nightmare we live in

[Capn Sunshine]

5. Clearly , a messenger for Cthulhu

I for one welcome our new dark overlords

[femrap]

6. OMG....it looks like

cheney. Kill it!!!

[CrownPrinceBandar]

7. Looks more like General Grievous.......

[Generic Other]

8. "we found a less healthy population. They were dead..."

Delivered with a deadpan seriousness.

[kenfrequed]

9. the niche gets filled I guess

It is quite probable that there will be a terrible shake up and we will inevitably have a new ecosytem caused by the holocene extinction period. Who knows what the hell it will end up looking like.