Imago said:

Looks like some kind of giant dust mite or something.

fhqwhgads said:

Looks like me before my morning cup of coffee....what is it?

Stax said:

What is that?

CarrieMpls said:

I don't know, but I'm thinking we started straying from sea creatures a while ago.

CarrieMpls said:

That is the shortest lived and worst team mascot in Major League Baseball history.

Crazy Crab was the mascot of the San Francisco Giants during the 1984 season. He was actually promoted as an "anti-mascot," in reaction to the mascot manic 70's and early 80's (i.e., the chicken, the phillie phanatic, etc.), and fans were encouraged to boo him. Players even dissed him.

The Giants lost 96 games that year and the Crazy Crab never returned.

theAudience said:

Wow, wonderful pictures at his site, I love this purple hydrocoral with the orange fish

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Protege said:

It's you before your morning cup of coffee.

theAudience said:

hehehe

He's all, "Get the hell out of here with your camera in my face..."

fhqwhgads said:

It pretty much is

It's a Giant Isopod.

Their morphology is nonetheless familiar to most people as giant isopods closely resemble their terrestrial cousins, the woodlice: their bodies are dorso-ventrally compressed, protected by a rigid, calcareous exoskeleton composed of imbricate segments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ant_isopod

applekisses said:

Ok now this thread is really scaring me.

minneapolisgenius said:

It's ok...they're waaaayyyyy down at the bottom of the sea...and they do a good job of keeping the sea floor clean - that's their job!

Whateva said:

Thanks for taking a look. I know he'll appreciate it.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

applekisses said:

I was doing quite alright in this thread until you posted that one.


This thread reminds me of this book my sister got me for X-mas though...



Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid
by Dr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey
Published by McSweeney's

Introducing the third installment in a proposed series of 377 reference books, all written by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey, a team of highly energized and deeply focused scientists with over sixty-seven combined years of experience at their command, including six months spent lifting awkwardly-sized boxes.

Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid, advances many heretofore unexplored discoveries and opinions, including squid dating dos and don'ts, why squid are not at all able to watch television in black and white, the ways in which people who don't know any better might think fish are not animals, the long-term effects of salt water on musical theater, and also the adventure of Gunther.

Dr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey has seventeen degrees from eighteen institutions of higher learning. She is a world-renowed and much-feared expert on just about everything. With her husband Benny, she has traveled the world over, and has learned about all aspects of life, including outer space and food, first-hand. She has written or will soon write over 147 books.


It's hilarious. I was reading it one day after I got it and I got into a laughing fit so hard that I couldn't breathe. I had tears streaming down my face and started hyperventilating.

minneapolisgenius said:

That is so awesome!! Dr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey

applekisses said:

It's all nonsense about the sea and giant squids. I haven't even read the whole thing yet because I want to savor it little by little and read new parts when I really need a good laugh.

theAudience said:

wow, that blue is amazing! the sea has weirder stuff than any science fiction movie