Sea Creatures

[Vodstok]

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]

Originally Posted by Vodstok

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

Well I could've told you that :D

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by Vodstok

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.

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

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]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

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]

Originally Posted by Vodstok

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]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

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


Here's it in comparison with a standard great white and a man.


And two of the seas greatest creatures-




But not forgetting, all the way from Scotland -






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

[Vodstok]

Axolotl


i think a monkfish


blue ringed octopus


marine isopod





A dead, rotting balean whale. I garuntee it.


I can elaborate if you would like.

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by ferretchucker

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: