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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 04:04 PM
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Giant Sea Spiders.
'Nuff said.

http://www.exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/popups/pycnogonid.htm
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 04:07 PM
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1. sucking up their contents through their enormous proboscis
:shrug: :shrug:
:hi:
Do You have one of those?
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 04:42 PM
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6. Why would all of my answers get the thread locked?
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 04:08 PM
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2. Not only did I click on your thread, I clicked the link
That beast is a foot across? :scared:
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 04:09 PM
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3. Aw, that's not what I expected to see...
on BBC World News this morning they showed another kind of sea spider, and it was very pretty. :)
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 04:42 PM
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5. I got the wrong sea spider
:(
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:00 PM
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7. Did you see the ones I mean?
They're so pretty... they showed them swimming underwater... just beautiful.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:12 PM
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8. No, do you remember the link please?
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:18 PM
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11. I saw it on TV this morning... but I found this link to some video...
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4309991

You don't see them till about 14 seconds in, I think.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:26 PM
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15. Dang. It just sits there and says "loading". Thanks anyway RedQueen!
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:32 PM
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17. Awww... sorry to hear that... they really are pretty.
Edited on Tue Feb-19-08 05:41 PM by redqueen
Thanks for posting the alien-lookin one. It's cool. :)

Just in case I sent a bad link... here's a different one, but it leads to the same video. You just have to click on this page to launch... thought it might be worth a shot:

http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,item,1723015294.aspx
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 04:10 PM
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4. AAhhhhh!!! And they have gonads in their legs!!!!
:o
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:16 PM
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9. aw, they're so cuddly!
nt
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:18 PM
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10. you should see it's nemesis, the giant sea shoe
:hide:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:20 PM
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13. Snerk!
:7
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:19 PM
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12. my gf the marine biologist saw this and LOST HER DAMN MIND
it was so cute
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:25 PM
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14. LOL-- most pycnogonids are TINY....
Even that "giant" sea spider is all legs, and each leg is shockingly spindly. Here's a pair of pics showing how spindly most of them are-- without the outline in the bottom pic, you cannot even find the sea spider in the top pic. They're so thin they're virtually transparent when alive.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:30 PM
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16. It's the spider robot from Jonny Quest!!
:scared:
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