And The Gothiest Creature Of Them All Is...

[Homicidalheathen]

http://environment.newscientist.com/channe...deep-sea/dn9967

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7...h&plindex=2

[Homicidalheathen]

http://environment.newscientist.com/channe...deep-sea/dn9967

[Kit Kat P]

they are doing this pretty close to me, part of me says leave well enough alone

[Homicidalheathen]

Hee hee coming to a beach near you. Anyone want a hug?

Ravenous jumbo squid take to California

28 July 2007

Magazine issue 2614

IT IS a ferocious 2-metre-long predator that hunts in packs, and it's lurking by a beach near you - if you happen to live on California's central coast, where the Humboldt squid has recently taken up residence.

Historically, Humboldt, or jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) only ride the warm ocean currents north from the tropical waters off Central America and Mexico to California during El Niño events. Once there they feast on Pacific hake before returning to the tropics once the warm period ends.

Over the past 16 years, however, surveys of Monterey Bay's deep waters revealed that the squid have become permanent residents (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0702043104).

This is because ocean temperatures are climbing, making the Californian waters more suitable for the squid, say Bruce Robison of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing and Louis Zeidberg of Stanford ...

[Kit Kat P]

Faaaaabulous another vote to move to the east coast

[Homicidalheathen]

..and you'd be closer to us!!!

I watched a special on this and there are all these things that glow....need no sunlight what so ever....can you say darkest of all? Things that survive off of sulfur and stuff......that shit that comes straight out of the earth.....like they live off of the breath of hell itself. Too cool.

And.....they discover new life forms all the time and have only explored like 10 percent of the deepest of deep oceans.

Some shark thing was prehistoric. Dinosaur age.