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Vodstok 06-02-2008 04:22 AM

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 06-02-2008 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Vodstok (Post 703107)
[IMG] there are some MASSIVE creatures living in the ocean. :D


Well I could've told you that :D

ChronoGrl 06-02-2008 04:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Vodstok (Post 703104)
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.

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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl (Post 703104)
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 06-02-2008 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl (Post 703111)

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

ChronoGrl 06-02-2008 05:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Vodstok (Post 703116)
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 06-02-2008 05:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl (Post 703125)
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 06-02-2008 01:51 PM

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.

Vodstok 06-02-2008 03:30 PM

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.

Vodstok 06-02-2008 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ferretchucker (Post 703240)
P.S- I believe the Salamander thing that __V__ showed is called an albino axelotl.

not albino, they all look like that.

ChronoGrl 06-02-2008 05:20 PM

Megaladons are pretty friggin' spectacular.

But of course, this is my favorite shark:

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


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