Chilean scientists work to ID mysterious sea creature

[GameMaster]

Story here. (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/07/02/giant.find/index.html)

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/WORLD/americas/07/02/chile.science.reut/story.giant.sea.creature2.jpg

The June 23 Finding

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/TECH/science/07/02/giant.find/story.1896.find.cnn.jpg

The 1896 Finding

Pretty mysterious... :eyes:

[Ginkasa]

Link doesn't work so..


*shrugs and walks away*

[GameMaster]

Now it should work.

[Jonbo298]

I've read about this. I say its a Giant Squid just because it would be awesome if it was. Not no damn whale blubber.

[Ginkasa]

Yeah, I hope its a giant swuid as well. Kind of disappointing if it was whale stuff...

"Sorry for the misalarm! It isn't a very rare and uncomfirmed species of giant squid but, in fact, a giant piece of whale fat!"

:unsure:

*shrugs and walks away*

[Jason1]

I thought they allready had giant squid specimens that washed up on shore...they just have never seen them alive...or something...

[Ginkasa]

Actually... I re-read the article and they were saying giant octopus so... We've been talking about the wrong eight-legged water dweller.


*shrugs and walks away*

[dirtycarpet]

Actually... I re-read the article and they were saying giant octopus so... We've been talking about the wrong eight-legged water dweller.


*shrugs and walks away*
Looks like an octopus to me

[Happydude]

lochness(sp?) monster anyone? :D

it doesn't look like an octopus to me...i mean...don't they have like sucking thingies on their tentacles? i dont see them...the best explination is that it's a secret experiment that escaped from US territory and ate a whole bunch of stuff and umm...passed out on the shore...yup :p

[DeathsHand]

I loves me mysterious things...

I hope it's not whale skin... Or a giant octopus... I want it to be something NEW! Something STRAAAANGE... :OOOO

[One Winged Angel]

Like a whale in the shape of a dildo?

[Bube]

I'll tell you what it is.

I was on vacation there, swimming in the sea. I really needed a restroom, but there was none around, and my hotel was too far away. So I swam out where nobody could see me, or at least understand what I was doing, and, well... you know...

Sorry if I caused trouble...

[Happydude]

I'll tell you what it is.

I was on vacation there, swimming in the sea. I really needed a restroom, but there was none around, and my hotel was too far away. So I swam out where nobody could see me, or at least understand what I was doing, and, well... you know...

Sorry if I caused trouble...
:lol:

[Jason1]

lol, nice Avatar Bube. I cant wait for HL2.

[Canyarion]

Aaahhh... the wonders of nature... :love:

[Rndm_Perfection]

I'd be only moderately surprised if it's a new species. And the surprise doesn't come from the fact that I'd think humans would have discovered it earlier, but rather that one would wash up shore.

Science has taught us more about the entire universe than our own oceans. Some depths are impossible to reach, even with a machine using today's technology. It's quite possible that undiscovered creatures dwell in the depths. That's what's tricky though... if something lived that far under the sea, how would it ever surface?

But, that'd be a reason why we've only seen two.


P.S. :lol: "Octopus Giganteus", talk about original naming.

[Jonbo298]

Unfortunately, it looks as it isn't a giant octopus:( It's just some damn leftover dead whale.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030711/sc_nm/chile_creature_dc_1

[Canyarion]

:( Weird way of dying BTW... :eyes:
"When a sperm whale dies at sea, it rots until it becomes a "skeleton suspended in a semi-liquid mass within a bag of skin and blubber," the scientists said. Eventually, the skin tears and the bones sinks while the skin and blubber float."

[Happydude]

EWWWWWWWWWWWW...

[Ginkasa]

I would like to see that skeleton in a liquid mass thing... That might be interesting...


*shrugs and walks away*

[Rndm_Perfection]

I would like to see that skeleton in a liquid mass thing... That might be interesting...

Yeah, well I'd like to see a one of a kind Octopus Giganteus.

[Ginkasa]

That's just a big octupus. Nothing special. Not as much as a skeleton floating in a smei-liquid mass of rotted flesh and blubber in any case.

.....

*shrugs and walks away*

[GameMaster]

Well, since then, a farm here in California has become the victim of crop circles. People from all around the U.S. are flocking to see it and absorb it's left behind energy which some claim has healing powers.