Sea Creatures

[Posher778]

Anyone got a favorite? Experiences? This thread is just to fuel my obsession.

Awesome pic:
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll66/Bluex2Abyss/shark.jpg

Funniest looking fish in the whole ocean:
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll66/Bluex2Abyss/scan0005-778419.jpg

And... personal favorite, duh:
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll66/Bluex2Abyss/Kraken.jpg

[missmacabre]

http://icecreamjournal.turkeyhill.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/octopus.gif

[urgeok2]

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k290/dirkhpeterson/b8a5363a.gif







i'm sorry - couldnt resist

[Dude Guadalupe]

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k290/dirkhpeterson/b8a5363a.gif







i'm sorry - couldnt resist

You win

[Freak]

I was on youtube early today and they had all kinds of wierd looking fish.There was even one that had an almost human face.

[Marya Zaleska]

Had to get out my aqua lung for these:

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk191/TheCostumer/GiantOceanSunFish.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk191/TheCostumer/pliosaur.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk191/TheCostumer/ItCamefromBeneathTheSea.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk191/TheCostumer/LeaguesUndertheSea.jpg

and last but not least!

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk191/TheCostumer/TheGillMan.jpg

[Freak]

I like the one with the squid attacking the bridge.

[crabapple]

Ray Harryhausen rules! Walt Disney RULES! Things with tentacles RULE!

[Vodstok]

http://www.mbari.org/twenty/images/vamp.jpg

[newb]

http://www.dan-dare.org/FreeFun/Images/CartoonsMoviesTV/FindingNemoWallpaper800.jpg




but Mayra wins with this one
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk191/TheCostumer/TheGillMan.jpg

though.....technically....not sure if this is a "sea creature"


my sig is a sea creature.......yes?

[missmacabre]

http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/blob-fish.jpg

[crabapple]

Oh my God, what is that. Don't tell me!

[urgeok2]

a mopefish ?

[_____V_____]

Looks like the product of a fish which has been impregnated by The Blob.

[crabapple]

Proboscis Fish maybe.....! Heck I don't know.

[_____V_____]

Some of the ones which have intrigued me :


http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/ravenavi/dinosour-fish-dota-seo-pjlighthouse.jpg


http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/ravenavi/FunkyFish.jpg


http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/ravenavi/LovelyOctopi.jpg


http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/ravenavi/Crabfish.jpg



and my favorite...(still don't know what the f*** this thing is!) :


http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/ravenavi/wtfisthisseamonster.jpg

[crabapple]

Well, that salamander-looking thing....that thing totally looks like it stepped out of a Pokemon cartoon into the real world. It's so pink!! You gotta love that thing.

And that crabfish thing...wow! What a totally awesome looking creature! It even looks happy in the photo, like it's smiling just a bit.

[massacre man]

Some of the ones which have intrigued me :


http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/ravenavi/dinosour-fish-dota-seo-pjlighthouse.jpg


Mudkip!....

[Posher778]

Proboscis Fish maybe.....! Heck I don't know.

The Hoochius Poochius Fish is often found off the coast of Baja.

[crabapple]

Heh heh heh heh heh....hoochius poochius.

I think that crabfish thing may be a marine arthropod but that may be a broad classification....anyone know exactly what that thing is??

This type of thread is the reason I like this message board. Weird animals are fun to discuss and many of the pictures are funny. It's a good flavor to mix in with discussions about Horror.

[Posher778]

A good thread idea....? Me? How much coffee did you drink today :P

[crabapple]

Yes, this is a good thread! I like it. Maybe not as much as I like Hoochie Poochie! But it's pretty good.

Look what I found...there is actually a real, honest to goodness Hoochie Poochie store for your pets!

http://www.thehoochiepoochiestore.com/mm5/merchant.mvc

[newb]

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/images/tampa-sea-monster-1.jpg
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/images/tampa-sea-monster.jpg











Photographs of this strange and ferocious looking creature have been circulating via email and online since mid 2006. The images have generated a lot of discussion. Given that our oceans do indeed harbour some strange and wonderful denizens, many have postulated that the creature might be a deep-sea fish hitherto unknown to science.

In fact, the "creature" is a sculpture by Tampa Bay artist Juan Cabana. Mr Cabana has created an entire menagerie of mermaids, sea monsters and aliens, some of which he offers for sale on eBay under the name "seamystery". This particular "Sea Monster" was the subject of an eBay auction in June 2006. The same photographs that are now circulating were included in the eBay description of the item.

[Roderick Usher]

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k115/RoderickUsher_2006/diver_and_jellyfish.jpg

[Posher778]

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k115/RoderickUsher_2006/diver_and_jellyfish.jpg

Is that actually real?

[Roderick Usher]

Is that actually real?
no clue...

but it's awesome! How'd you like to see somthing like that coming at you in the ocean:eek:

[Posher778]

no clue...

but it's awesome! How'd you like to see somthing like that coming at you in the ocean:eek:

I'd probably be trying to pet it or something hahaha

[Kemal]

I say fake! Look here:

http://diverssite.com/news.php?extend.778

[ChronoGrl]

Something that absolutely fascinates me...

Bloop:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop

The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration several times during the summer of 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown.

Some of the more hard-coded evidence that we have of giant sea-monsters... Though it's probably more of a giant mudsucker at the bottom than anything else.

...

I am also fascinated by cryptozoology:

"Dipro"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/dipro.jpg

"Merman"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/merman6jpgw300h400.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/merman4jpgw300h400.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/blue-merman.jpg



V already covered the Mungfish, which is one ugly sucker... And I am also fascinated by the shark found with legs:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/shark_web_feet.gif

[missmacabre]

Oh my God, what is that. Don't tell me!

it's called a blobfish.

[Vodstok]

the shark with legs i would say might be genuine, the rest are obvious fakes.

aorry to say, there are no recorded giant jellyfish that big. i stress recorded, no onw knows what lives in the midwater area between the top 100 feet an d the bottom, it is the lleast explored area on our planet.

mostly because studying it in a sub has been comapred to studying the grand canyon at night in a helecopter, using only a canlde for light.

[missmacabre]

http://www.calvintang.com/albums/Malaysia/lg/coconut%20crab%20scampering4s.jpg
Coconut Crab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab)

[urgeok2]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/dipro.jpg



if Pitch Black had taken place on a water planet ...

[crabapple]

Is that weird lizard thing for real? It looks cool!

I read up on coconut crabs just now and those are neat animals...they open coconuts and pull the meat out with their claws! They are the only animal that can do that.....it's wild...

[ChronoGrl]

the shark with legs i would say might be genuine, the rest are obvious fakes.

aorry to say, there are no recorded giant jellyfish that big. i stress recorded, no onw knows what lives in the midwater area between the top 100 feet an d the bottom, it is the lleast explored area on our planet.

mostly because studying it in a sub has been comapred to studying the grand canyon at night in a helecopter, using only a canlde for light.

Yup! Here's the article for the shark with legs:

http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=73210864950

That picture just amuses, interests, and creeps me out all at the same time...

The "mermen" are obvious fakes (which make me laugh)...

The "Diplocaulus" was made my a Japanese artist which he photographed in a pan on his lawn to appear as though he caught it. The neat thing about that picture was that people actually took it seriously at the time. I can understand why; for a forgery, it looks pretty damn good (I know that I thought it was real when I first saw it).

It's an actual dinosaur, though. Just not... Still living. heh

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

unless it's lobster cooked on a plate, I hate everything under the sea.

[urgeok2]

unless it's lobster cooked on a plate, I hate everything under the sea.

crab is waaaaayyyyy better than lobster

[Vodstok]

Is that weird lizard thing for real? It looks cool!

no, if you look closely, you can tell it has been photoshopped. A REALLY good photoshop, however.

the creature is a Diplocaulus, an amphibian that predates the dinosaurs by quite a bit. It si one of those things that if a living one were found, it would be a HUGE deal. Do you remember the hubbub when they finally got a live giant squid on film a few years back?

It would be way bigger than that, even bigger than the coelocanth.

give me a bit and i will round up some really cool real animals.

[Vodstok]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/images/uploadedfiles/editorial/pictures/2007/11/12/1jellyfish.jpg
Box Jellyfish. Doesnt look like much, but they are the most poisonous creature alive.

http://bioephemera.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/380353_028542ead3.jpg
deep sea isopod. think of a pill bug that lives on the botton of the ocean, the size of a football.

http://www.biology.duke.edu/johnsenlab/images/gallery/Viper.jpg
Viperfish. Tiny, but they look fucking cool.

http://www.greengoblin.com/internal/corner/shark.jpg
Goblin shark. Butt ugly, but real

[Posher778]

I thought the Blue Ring octopus was more poisonous...

[Vodstok]

http://www.gabourgeois.com/images/octo.jpg

this is a horrible picture, but it has not been disproven. supposedly, back in the 1800s, an octopus that was over 80 to 100 feet from tentacle tip to tip washed up dead on a shore. it took a team of horses to drag it up on the beach, whihc mostly destroyed it (Molluscs are pretty fragile, having no bones., especially when dead)

supposedly a college in england (Oxford i think) has a chunk of it in formadehyde, and the striations of the tissue are fairly consistent with an octopus. it is considered inconclusive, and not enough evidence exists to prove or disprove the claim, but it invites the possibility that three are some MASSIVE creatures living in the ocean. :D

[Posher778]

[IMG] there are some MASSIVE creatures living in the ocean. :D


Well I could've told you that :D

[ChronoGrl]

the creature is a Diplocaulus, an amphibian that predates the dinosaurs by quite a bit. It si one of those things that if a living one were found, it would be a HUGE deal. Do you remember the hubbub when they finally got a live giant squid on film a few years back?

It would be way bigger than that, even bigger than the coelocanth.

It's not photoshopped.

The "Diplocaulus" was made my a Japanese artist which he photographed in a pan on his lawn to appear as though he caught it. The neat thing about that picture was that people actually took it seriously at the time. I can understand why; for a forgery, it looks pretty damn good (I know that I thought it was real when I first saw it).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplocaulus

[Vodstok]

It's not photoshopped.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplocaulus
Aha. I was essentially right tho. :) sorry i didnt read your post, since i restated what you said .

[ChronoGrl]

Aha. I was essentially right tho. :) sorry i didnt read your post, since i restated what you said .

Oh, you were right. My innate NEED for attention won over, though. :rolleyes: heh :o

LOOK WHAT I SAID!

[Vodstok]

Oh, you were right. My innate NEED for attention won over, though. :rolleyes: heh :o

LOOK WHAT I SAID!
:)

I too am a shameless attention whore. look at my posts when i was still running scaredyet.net...

[ferretchucker]

My personal favourite (But very much extinct) sea creature.

MEGALODON
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p255/ferretchucker/MEG1.jpg

Here's it in comparison with a standard great white and a man.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p255/ferretchucker/800px-Megalodon_scale1.png

And two of the seas greatest creatures-

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p255/ferretchucker/whalesq.jpg


But not forgetting, all the way from Scotland -

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p255/ferretchucker/nessie.jpg




P.S- I believe the Salamander thing that __V__ showed is called an albino axelotl.

[Vodstok]

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/ravenavi/dinosour-fish-dota-seo-pjlighthouse.jpg
Axolotl

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/ravenavi/FunkyFish.jpg
i think a monkfish

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/ravenavi/LovelyOctopi.jpg
blue ringed octopus

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/ravenavi/Crabfish.jpg
marine isopod




http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/ravenavi/wtfisthisseamonster.jpg
A dead, rotting balean whale. I garuntee it.


I can elaborate if you would like.

[Vodstok]

P.S- I believe the Salamander thing that __V__ showed is called an albino axelotl.
not albino, they all look like that.

[ChronoGrl]

Megaladons are pretty friggin' spectacular.

But of course, this is my favorite shark:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/zombivsshark1zm.gif

[Vodstok]

http://myanimalblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/blue_whale.jpg

this has always impressed me. Blue whales, the largest animal to ever live, as far as we know.

[ferretchucker]

not albino, they all look like that.

you sure?

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p255/ferretchucker/axelotl1.jpg



Blue whales also interest me. I don't know why. It's something about them that makes them seem majestic.

[urgeok2]

http://myanimalblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/blue_whale.jpg

this has always impressed me. Blue whales, the largest animal to ever live, as far as we know.


animal, or mammal ?

i thought there were some huge prehistoric guys that were bigger ?

[ferretchucker]

thats what I thought. But oh well. At the moment, I can't disprove him, so I'll accept his word as truth for now.

[Vodstok]

nothing to my knowledge was ever as massive. there were some dinosaurs that were longer, but i tthink as far as overall size, nothing beat the blue whale.

edit: Confirmation:
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/question687.htm

[ChronoGrl]

I just stumbled across this little beauty:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/seashark.jpg

[Vodstok]

i always liked gulper eels:
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/gulper-eel-15579-sw.jpg

[Sharkchild]

I have seen some good footage of gulper eels, just sitting with their huge mouths open in the dark, waiting for a wayward fish. They made good odds for themselves.

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

this is still probably the grossest picture I've ever seen. It makes me want to scratch my fingertips to the bone.

http://misseye.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/fingers16xy14zy0cs.jpg

[Sharkchild]

What exactly occurred to those fingers?

[urgeok2]

What exactly occurred to those fingers?

looks like they were photoshopped with some animal

[urgeok2]

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a48/wherehaveyoubeenallmylife/otherr/C.gif

[Vodstok]

looks like they were photoshopped with some animal
It is, those are lamprey mouths. its not even a particularly good photshopping. i did way better with "Monsters Love Food" :D

[ChronoGrl]

It is, those are lamprey mouths. its not even a particularly good photshopping. i did way better with "Monsters Love Food" :D

Bad photoshoppig or not - That fucking image is honestly giving me a pretty visceral reaction...

*shudder*

UGH

[Vodstok]

Bad photoshoppig or not - That fucking image is honestly giving me a pretty visceral reaction...

*shudder*

UGH
yeah, the impact isnt lessened. it is disturbing and i cant really put my finger on why.

[Sharkchild]

That image did the trick---rather disturbing.

It's what you call "finger-licking good."