• Giant whale-eating whale discovered
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Perhaps more bones are in one of the great trenches? We really need to get deeper into the super-super high pressure depths of those trenches.
Shouldn't this be in news?
[QUOTE=Sparkwire;23048460]you do realize that jap is merely the first three letters of Japanese, right?[/QUOTE] remind me of the word 'faggot'
[QUOTE=OvB;23034642]Oh shit, that's right. The odds of one of these things still ticking are extremely thin. We have a better chance of a megalodon being carried ashore by mermaids than we do finding a living one of these. Whales need oxygen to live, which means they have to surface. [B]We would have found one by now.[/B][/QUOTE] Do you have an idea how big the ocean is?
[QUOTE=AzzyMaster;23034789]I saw this in the paper but only read the part: "Giant sperm". Was confused.[/QUOTE] Giant sperm-eating whales? :aaa:
I dont care about the dubious nature, if I was on a boat somewhere, and saw [IMG]http://forgetomori.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ningencryptid32.jpg[/IMG] Thats a sure fire sign to turn the fuck around, or, failing that, off myself.
God damnit when I read the title, I thought it would still actually exist.
BRACE YOURSELF FOR BLOOD AND THUNDER j
[QUOTE=Jeep-Eep;23040023]And that's hardly the meanest thing ever to prowl the oceans. Ever heard of a Eurypterid? Think giant freeswimming lobster of death and you have some idea. Biggest anthropod. Ever. You want pics? Pics you will have: First: the Scale [IMG]http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2007/11/071120195710.jpg[/IMG] That's how big these monsters got. Second: Artists impressions [IMG]http://www.mbscientific.com/eurypteridSM.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://lesdinos.free.fr/pterygotus.jpg[/IMG] Third: fossils [IMG]http://earth.geology.yale.edu/%7Edeb47/pics/eurypterid.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eifischer/Collections/Fossils/Images/eurypterid-ventral.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Am I the only one to think they would have had fun with this thing in the Colosseum in Rome if it still was in existence?
[QUOTE=Mavericks;23034296]It would be so awesome if one of these were alive today.[/QUOTE] I'd be fucking terrified. I'm scared shitless at the possibility of what might be lurking in the deep as it is. Having one of those things alive roaming the coasts would ensure that I'd never again set foot in anything that floats.
What the fuck is this shit. I keep reading sperm whale without whale. It turns out funny.
[QUOTE=Uberslug;23039876]"Jap" is a racist word. And don't argue about it. It is.[/QUOTE] rated funny
[QUOTE=Dbuhos;23058739]What the fuck is this shit. I keep reading sperm whale without whale. It turns out funny.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]The massive skull and jaw of a 13-million-year-old sperm has been discovered eroding from the windblown sands of a coastal desert of Peru. The extinct cousin of the modern sperm is the first fossil to rival modern sperms in size — although this is a very different beast, say sperm evolution experts. "We could see it from very far," said paleontologist Olivier Lambert of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France, who led the team which found the fossil. The giant 3-meter (10-foot) skull of what's been dubbed Leviathan melvillei (in honor of the author of "Moby Dick") was found with teeth in its top and bottom jaws up to 36 centimeters (14 inches) long. The discovery is reported in the July 1 issue of the journal Nature. Living sperms have teeth only in their lower jaws and are specialized to feed on giant squid, Lambert explained. They suck down squid like large spaghetti noodles rather than catch the prey with their teeth. The much toothier fossil sperms, however, may have eaten more like a outsized-orca, or killer sperm: chomping great big bites out of its prey. "These are very unusual attributes," said cetacea evolution expert Ewan Fordyce of the University of Otago in New Zealand. "It's remarkably big. That is unexpected." Another sign that this ancient sperm had a killer bite is the large hole in the skull to accommodate a large jaw muscle. "This was a hunting predator that took chunks out of prey," said Fordyce. It most likely fed on baleen sperms, Lambert and his colleagues report, and lived in the same waters as the monster-sized shark called Carcharocles megalodon. To learn more about its eating habits, Fordyce said it would be useful to look at the microscopic wear patterns on the teeth. If the wear lines are horizontal, it probably sucked in prey like today's sperms. But if the wear lines are vertical, it would suggest a biter, like the orca. "Many fossil sperms have been found in the past," said Lambert. "Most have been much smaller than modern sperms." There have also been discoveries of isolated large sperm teeth fossils before, said Lambert. Those made it clear to researchers there was a bigger animal out there waiting to be found. And now they have found it. "I think it's a great advance," said Fordyce of the discovery. The fossil appears to also be a distant relative of today's sperms, said Fordyce, rather than a direct ancestor.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DrLuke;23053404]Do you have an idea how big the ocean is?[/QUOTE] I'm an oceanography and marine biology enthusiast, soon to be student. While the ocean is large enough to hide many many things, a whale is not one of them. A whale, no matter what size has to surface everyday for a couple hours to breathe, a large whale is highly visible when surfaced. I guarantee you we would have found one during out 150 year industrious rape and pillage of the ocean that nearly drove multiple species of whale to extinction, if one of these, if ANY of these still exists, it's the hide-and-go-seek champion of the world.
[QUOTE=tehMuffinMan;23048514]Imagine this reaching up from the dark sea and grabbing you [IMG]http://forgetomori.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ningenal.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Whut.. photoshop!
[QUOTE=Superstormj;23058357]Am I the only one to think they would have had fun with this thing in the Colosseum in Rome if it still was in existence?[/QUOTE] They could have riveted armor plates to their carapace, and gave it a saddle.
[QUOTE=Ridge;23056061]I dont care about the dubious nature, if I was on a boat somewhere, and saw [IMG]http://forgetomori.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ningencryptid32.jpg[/IMG] Thats a sure fire sign to turn the fuck around, or, failing that, off myself.[/QUOTE] Hell, seeing this would freak me out a good deal [img]http://forgetomori.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/sokotourimasuyodsa.jpg[/img] Reminds me of the fucking Oocca in Twilight Princess. I hated those things
[QUOTE=Triumph Forks;23059822]Hell, seeing this would freak me out a good deal [img]http://forgetomori.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/sokotourimasuyodsa.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Pfft, a sloths head with legs ain't shit. Now one of these fuckers, the bite is apparently as painful as getting shot, and has been described as fire walking with a 3 inch rusty nail stuck in your heel. I give you, THE BULLET ANT!! [img]http://thepirata.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/bullet_ant1.jpg[/img]
but, that face :gonk: [editline]04:26PM[/editline] also fuck bugs
I just wonder how long genital does that whale have. :smug:
[QUOTE=Combine 177;23060986]I just wonder how long genital does that whale have. :smug:[/QUOTE] [img]http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/9774/446905.jpg[/img] Not something you want to be raped by.
A [I]ten[/I] foot long skull? Wow.
[img]http://forgetomori.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/minamihito2.jpg[/img] GO TO SLEEP. It's the ningen, by the way.
The ocean has always freaked me out. Even today when I'm at the harbour standing on the docks, I look at the water and get a little scared. I hate it because there's so many unknown creatures lurking in there, so many weird looking creatures. Also, because water is not our element we're at a disadvantage with fighting back or getting away. I know not like these weird creatures are gonna be swimming near the docks but my imagination gets to me. Nonetheless I would love to go down DEEP DEEP into the oceans depths in one of those scientific submarines to view and discover all that creepy shit.
I don't like the ocean because of its size. Shit just ain't right
Guys i'm not very used to the english language so answer my question: Why exactly are sperm whales named like that? Is the meaning as obvious as it looks?
[QUOTE=LtBubbles;23071890]Guys i'm not very used to the english language so answer my question: Why exactly are sperm whales named like that? Is the meaning as obvious as it looks?[/QUOTE] Spermaceti wax was made from sperm oil which came from a whale that whalers called a sperm whale because they got the sperm oil from it.
The oceans are lame now. They had hardcore shit like this back then but now.
[QUOTE=tehMuffinMan;23048514]Imagine this reaching up from the dark sea and grabbing you [IMG_thumb]http://forgetomori.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ningenal.jpg[/IMG_thumb][/QUOTE] Reminds me of NGE. [img_thumb]http://animeshots.org/shots/2207.jpg[/img_thumb] [QUOTE=Ridge;23056061]I dont care about the dubious nature, if I was on a boat somewhere, and saw [IMG_thumb]http://forgetomori.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ningencryptid32.jpg[/IMG_thumb] Thats a sure fire sign to turn the fuck around, or, failing that, off myself.[/QUOTE] So does this. [img_thumb]http://www.lonelyangel.com/v3images/screencaps/pics/scr_666.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i49.tinypic.com/29dcxa9.jpg[/img_thumb]
[B]THREAD VIDEO[/B] (Okay, so it's not whales, BUT WE CAN PRETEND) [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBIxJ331vzs[/MEDIA]
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