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Author Topic: 7 Terrifying Prehistoric Creatures (that are still around)  (Read 6619 times)
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« on: September 14, 2010, 12:39:15 PM »

No wonder Lovecraft had a fear of the Ocean:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18641_7-terrifying-prehistoric-creatures-that-are-still-around.html?wa_user1=4&wa_user2=Science&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=recommended
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« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2010, 01:30:19 PM »

The goblin shark's jaws!! Dear god, oh dear god . . . It's going to come for me! I know it!
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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2010, 01:35:32 PM »

"Condoms with teeth" is sort of a meme right now in South Africa.
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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2010, 05:32:12 AM »

I was just looking at this! Creepy, creepy stuff.
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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2010, 11:44:40 PM »

...never...going...in...the...ocean...EVER...again...
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« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2010, 03:14:05 PM »

Here's another crazy sea animal: Indonesian Mimic Octopus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8oQBYw6xxc
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« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2010, 08:10:55 PM »

I just peed a little.
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« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2010, 12:03:48 PM »

The goblin shark with the Black & Decker tablesaw blade teeth was a little hard to swallow, but I washed it down with some Moon Wine I got from the zoogs and it all seemed OK again.
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« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2010, 10:54:15 AM »

Metriod's are real.  And FRIGHTENING! 

http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/archive/headline_science/redjelly.php
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« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2010, 04:10:49 PM »

Frightening indeed. Cryptozoology also offers some interesting theories and pictures of different creatures such as these:
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« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2011, 09:15:40 PM »


First one's a blob fish, second one looks like an eel of some sort...or a mutant rabbit/eel hybrid.
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« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2011, 02:52:14 PM »

The sea creature with the most awesome name is the Vampire Squid.  It's Latin name is Vampyroteuthis infernalis, literally, "vampire squid from 'Hell'"!
it glows in the dark, and it's looks like this:



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« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2011, 07:09:05 AM »

The Goblin Shark features in the awful Malibu Shark Attack film...
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« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2011, 09:10:19 PM »



Yeah, some of those extant animals are pretty flipped out. You never know what kind of crazy creatures can be found at the bottom of the ocean.

Still, I have some trouble believing that shark with the buzz-saw mouth EVER existed - I think they just made that one up.
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« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2011, 08:51:06 AM »


Hey! How did you get a picture of my mother-in-law???

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