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Yeah!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3039102.stm)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

giant blob baffles marine scientists

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

(those are the same btw)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

Let us not forget lake monsters! In the case of Champ, which the link talks about, the Joseph Zarzynski mentioned was a teacher in the middle school I attended in Saratoga Springs in the early eighties. Friendly feller, very good teacher, but definitely obsessed for a while (as the article mentioned he's got other focuses now).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.forteantimes.com/gallery/images/seamonster.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

"my sperm whale is not your enemy"

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.staugustinelighthouse.com/archival/images/monster.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:55 (twenty years ago) link

Champy rox, giant sea blob is gay.

― Dale the Merciless (cprek), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.bahnhof.se/~wizard/cryptoworld/maru1.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

Top picture is most probably a bed of seaweed. The second picture is indeed an one-of-a-kind giant octopus (not squid), completely anomalous. The last pictures is a decomposed basking shark.

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

leave our dreams intact mr sceptico!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

seaweed doesn't have scary eyes!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

(may not work:)
http://home.sprintmail.com/~mjsanders/Benjamin/images/PicOmonth_02.gif

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

http://home.sprintmail.com/~mjsanders/Benjamin/images/PicOmonth_01.gif
http://home.sprintmail.com/~mjsanders/Benjamin/images/PicOmonth_02.gif

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

http://mirror.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/turner/i/sea-monsters-detail.jpg

― geeta, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

>leave our dreams intact mr sceptico!!

What, a giant octopus isn't good enough for you?

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.dvdreview.com/fullreviews/Images/BeanyandCecil/Beany_Cecil1.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/C.A.Severien/images/sleeves/sea.gif

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.bret.org.uk/images/crab.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

How 'bout this new-fangled "blob" creature?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/sci_nat_enl_1057157419/img/1.jpg
Looks like a gigantic rancid crepe to me.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

in chat we determined that it's a sky jelly-fish that has fallen to earth and is evil.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

THERE'S JELLYFISH IN THE SKY NOW!?!?!

*wets self*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

THERE'S JELLYFISH IN THE SKY NOW
Isn't that a Robyn Hitchcock song?

― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 19:24 (twenty years ago) link

That 'seaweed' *does* have scary eyes *and* smiley lips!

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

I am disappointed because I orginally read the headline as "Giant Blob BATTLES Marine Scientists."

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 19:30 (twenty years ago) link

like this you mean?

http://www.blease.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/kraken.jpg

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 3 July 2003 06:14 (twenty years ago) link

can't they just send a tissue sample away for DNA analysis?

(sorry Mark S)

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 3 July 2003 06:15 (twenty years ago) link

That 'seaweed' *does* have scary eyes *and* smiley lips!

Yeah, and I just saw the face of Jesus in my morning cereal! It's a strange and beautiful world.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 3 July 2003 07:21 (twenty years ago) link

It's the best.

― Cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 3 July 2003 09:00 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, but what about Sea Monsters gone bad on the land:

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/treeocto.jpg

― kate (kate), Thursday, 3 July 2003 09:02 (twenty years ago) link

http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/dbgfx/500/F065-003.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 3 July 2003 09:42 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.spamula.net/blog/i05/cavazzi-thumb.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 3 July 2003 09:44 (twenty years ago) link

more selections from Jerry the Nipper's Big Book of Seamonster p0rn will be avilable shortly....

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 3 July 2003 09:54 (twenty years ago) link

surely that blob thing is all the collagen they removed from lesley ash's lips.

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 3 July 2003 09:59 (twenty years ago) link

I've noticed a lot of odd science stories lately. I don't have the courage to look at one saying that our weather may be going completely haywire.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 3 July 2003 14:14 (twenty years ago) link

update: chile sea crature could be a giant octopus, it was seen floating near a dead hump back whale. What a fight it must've been!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 July 2003 14:41 (twenty years ago) link

cor. what a show that would be

MARINE MASSACRES CAUGHT ON TAPE II

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 3 July 2003 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

>update: chile sea crature could be a giant octopus, it was seen floating near a dead hump back whale. What a fight it must've been!

Wow! The second one ever found then! In a different ocean too.

― fletrejet, Thursday, 3 July 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.mysteryaction.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/b3ta/lake.gif

by mystery bob on b3ta recently

http://www.b3ta.com/board/1506363

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 3 July 2003 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

At least no one has mentioned David Gedge. Until now.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

Dude! That Cat! Won't somebody DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT DAMNED CAT!?!?!?!?!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

call for super hero gareth flying head!!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

At least no one has mentioned David Gedge. Until now.

(*ahem*, look above at the pics)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 July 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

I love octopuses and squids. They are great. People aren't interested enough in these extraordinary creatures, among the earliest complex animals on the planet, with strange ways of moving, with multiple brains, astounding colour-changing ability, mind-boggling flexibility and high intelligence. And they get fucking enormous! It's not so long ago that scientists announced the MEGASQUID! There was a great graphic showing the lengths, increasing each step, of a London bus, a blue whale, a giant squid and then a MEGASQUID!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 July 2003 18:38 (twenty years ago) link

Martin ODB! I highly revere the octopus. If it weren't for its criminally short lifespan, they could be trained to do a number of amazing things.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 July 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.emerchandise.com/images/p/SSM/pcSSM.jpg

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 3 July 2003 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

Yay Sigmund! I heart you, rosemary.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 July 2003 19:36 (twenty years ago) link

six years pass...

holy shit
http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/09/rare-tongue-eating-parasite-found.html

― cozwn, Monday, 14 September 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link

that is some next level shit

As the parasite grows, less and less blood reaches the tongue, and eventually the organ atrophies from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue.

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 14 September 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link

The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue.

― cozwn, Monday, 14 September 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh, better yet

― that stupid-ass cannibal pen-pal of yours (Laurel), Monday, 14 September 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link

seriously goose bump central over here

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 14 September 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YuR6V_Yr7Bk/Sqnv5gQNCUI/AAAAAAAACuI/756p6F419PA/s320/tongue-eating-parasite.jpg

greetings

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 14 September 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link

i have just eaten sea bass as well

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 14 September 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link

looks like something from a Guillermo del Toro film.

― Pillbox, Monday, 14 September 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link

This is still freaking me out, i mean

The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue.

God

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 14 September 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link

the horror of no hands indeed

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 14 September 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Gollum-like_monster_emerges_from_lake&in_article_id=739578&in_page_id=2

― cozwn, Thursday, 17 September 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link

"Zoologist Jacobo Arauz said it was likely the creature was likely to be a mutation and suggested it could be a form of sloth."

;_:

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 17 September 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link

fucking tongue eating parasite aaaagghh

― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 September 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/6442974/Tourists-in-Australia-warned-of-6m-monster-shark.html

― coz (webinar), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link

that picture is terrifying.

― Maria, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link

we're gonna need a bigger shark

― you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link

eek. A little disappointed that it wasn't really a monster though.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Saturday, 31 October 2009 09:13 (fourteen years ago) link

Emo shark. Did it to himself.

― StanM, Saturday, 31 October 2009 10:31 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh, wait, I recognise him now. He's the "I'm a shark, suck my dick" shark! Probably said that to another shark, and this is the result :-(

― StanM, Saturday, 31 October 2009 10:41 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...

not a sea monster but still wtf a sheep born w/a human face?! surely not real

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article6429960.ab

― cozwn, Friday, 15 January 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

Kinda:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef013489afdb22970c-800wi

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link

two years pass...

http://news.kron4.com/news/huge-oarfish-found-off-l-a-coast

http://news.kron4.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/oarfish.jpg

Oarfish!

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link

Fuck me.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link

Those people don't look horrified enough.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link

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