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

Well I could've told you that :D

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 .

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...

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

MEGALODON
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...ucker/MEG1.jpg

Here's it in comparison with a standard great white and a man.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...don_scale1.png

And two of the seas greatest creatures-

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...er/whalesq.jpg


But not forgetting, all the way from Scotland -

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...ker/nessie.jpg




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

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...lighthouse.jpg
Axolotl

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1.../FunkyFish.jpg
i think a monkfish

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...velyOctopi.jpg
blue ringed octopus

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...i/Crabfish.jpg
marine isopod




http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...seamonster.jpg
A dead, rotting balean whale. I garuntee it.


I can elaborate if you would like.

not albino, they all look like that.

Megaladons are pretty friggin' spectacular.

But of course, this is my favorite shark:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...vsshark1zm.gif

http://myanimalblog.files.wordpress....blue_whale.jpg

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

you sure?

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...r/axelotl1.jpg



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

animal, or mammal ?

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

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.

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/mam...uestion687.htm

I just stumbled across this little beauty:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...l/seashark.jpg

i always liked gulper eels:
http://photography.nationalgeographi...l-15579-sw.jpg

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.

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/2...6xy14zy0cs.jpg

What exactly occurred to those fingers?

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

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.

That image did the trick---rather disturbing.

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