Sea Monsters

[dogfish]

Lets hear about some.:moon:


http://www.6000years.org/graphics/dino-corps.jpg
In 1977, Japanese fishermen on board the Zuiyo Maru caught a dead, very smelly "monster", in their nets at a depth of 900 feet. It was estimated to have been dead for over a month. It was 32 feet long and weighed over 4,000 pounds. The fishermen measured it, photographed it, took tissue samples, and promptly threw it overboard before it could contaminate their "real catch". From all the evidence available to them, Japanese scientists believed the creature to "look very much like a Plesiosaur". One scientist said, "It seems that these animals are not extinct after all. It is impossible for only one to have survived. There must be a group." The Japanese government commemorated this find with a postage stamp.


http://www.6000years.org/frame.php?page=dinosaurs

[dogfish]

The Sea Monster of Santa Cruz - This apparent Plesiosaur washed up on Moore's Beach (now Natural Bridges State Beach) in Monterey Bay, California in 1925. The neck was described as being about 20 feet long. Some scientists postulated that it was an extremely rare type of beaked whale, while others believed it to be a variety of plesiosaur. After thoroughly examining the carcass, the renowned naturalist E. L. Wallace concluded that the creature could not be a whale and might be a plesiosaur that had been preserved and subsequently melted out of glacial ice. The story is given in Randall Reinsted's 1975 book Shipwrecks and Sea Monsters. It is also prominently featured in Skin Diver magazine of November, 1989 which discusses the Monterey Submarine Canyon. This mysterious underwater trench extends many miles into the Pacific and is one of the least studied ocean chasms.

http://www.6000years.org/graphics/moores_beach_dino.jpg
http://www.6000years.org/graphics/moorepic2.gif


Here are some other interesting photos taken around the world.

http://www.6000years.org/graphics/dino8.jpg
http://www.6000years.org/graphics/dino2.jpg
http://www.6000years.org/graphics/dino-fish.jpg
Here is another modern day dinosaur that was photographed by a
Japanese crew that "science" tried to pass off as a "frilled shark"
Does this look like any known shark to you?

[nitestrikes]

http://www.6000years.org/graphics/dino-corps.jpg

That thing must have stunk when they pulled it out of the water!:upck:

Heres a good one, the montauk monster --

Monday, August 4, 2008

The "Montauk Monster" - Identified! (http://imbrickle.blogspot.com/2008/08/montauk-monster-identified.html)


I first caught news of the "Montauk Monster" via Gawker last Tuesday (http://gawker.com/5030531/dead-monster-washes-ashore-in-montauk).



http://gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2008/07/IMG_1883_3_.JPG

Along with many others, I've been biting my lips in anticipation - just what the hell is this thing? (And why do we want to know so badly?)

Finding out is a matter of patience, and counting on the omniscience of the internet. I told my partner, "It's probably not a hoax, and eventually a savvy biologist will surface and tell us exactly what this thing is and what happened to it."

That biologist is Darren Naish of Tetrapod Zoology (http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/08/the_montauk_monster.php).

He's written an excellent article with new photographs, skull comparisons and decayed details photoshopped in.

Check him out to discover the true identify of the Montauk (http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/08/the_montauk_monster.php)
Monster!




http://imbrickle.blogspot.com/2008/08/montauk-monster-identified.html

[buckethead]

creepy

9654

[lostatsea]

Toward the end of World War I the German submarine (http://www.unmuseum.org/sub.htm) UB-85 was caught on the surface, during the day, and sunk by a British patrol boat. The crew abandoned the sub and was picked up by the British. The U-boat commander, Captain Krech was questioned about why he had been cruising on the surface and he told this tale:

The sub had been recharging batteries at night on the surface when without any kind of warning a "strange beast" began to climb aboard from the sea. "This beast had large eyes, set in a horny sort of skull. It had a small head, but with teeth that could be seen glistening in the moonlight." The animal was so large that it forced the U-boat to list greatly to starboard. The captain feared an open hatch would drop below the waterline, flooding the sub and sinking it.

"Every man on watch began firing a sidearm at the beast," Krech continued. The animal had hold of the forward gun mount and would not let go.

The battle continued until the animal dropped back into the sea. In the struggle, though, the forward deck plating had been damaged and the sub could no longer submerge. "That is why you were able to catch us on the surface," the Captain concluded.

[BassBuddah]

Freak Out - Blobfish v Crabzilla


We all love a good weird picture - but which is the strangest of the strange? Each week, we'll put two of our favourite bizarre images to a public vote in a tournament to find the weirdest picture in the world. Two pictures enter - only one will leave...

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/16/article-1266334902926-08330563000005DC-7108_636x347.jpg Blobfish: poor sad little blobby fish thing

Reigning Champion - Blobfish

It was something of a walkover in last week's contest (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/812247-freak-out-blobfish-v-smoking-snake), with the ocean's saddest little gelatinous lump, the Blobfish, completely trouncing the smoking snake in the public's affections. That marks the second week of triumph for the Blobfish, which means the poor little chap is gradually working his way toward a place the coveted Freak Out Hall Of Fame.
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/16/article-1266336113517-083D8146000005DC-122927_636x774.jpg Crabzilla: that's our nightmares sorted for the next few months, then
Challenger - Crabzilla

It's a battle of the denizens of the deep this week, as Blobfish's grip on the title is threatened by 'Crabzilla' - a monster Japanese spider crab from the depths of the Pacific (http://www.metro.co.uk/news/812905-crabzilla-climbs-out-of-the-deep), who has recently taken up residence at Birmingham's National Sea Life Centre, where he is busy giving visitors the screaming heebie-jeebies. We are reassured that Crabzilla is not actually a threat, however, on the grounds that a) he isn't aggressive, and

[fishinmission78]

Saber Tooth
http://www.extremescience.com/images/SabreTooth.jpg
Sabertooth fishes have moderately elongate and compressed bodies which lack normal scales. The head is large and blunt; the terminal mouth is large, and it is lined with slender palatine teeth, the frontmost of which are greatly enlarged and curve inward slightly. A number of shorter, straighter teeth accompany these fang-like teeth. The tongue is toothless. The eyes range in size from small to large; they are tubular in structure and point upwards. The lateral line runs uninterrupted. The vertebrae number 44�54 and there are three discrete bands of muscle tissue (epaxial, midlateral, and hypaxial) present in the caudal region. The swim bladder is absent and the stomach is highly distensible.

[wish4fish]

hay check these ones out!
vX90r12ANjY

[basshunter]

News from Tynemouth
24th February, 2009

Giant Oarfish Washes up in Tynemouth



A true giant of the deep has been washed up on a beach in Tynemouth.
The awesome three-metre-long oarfish was discovered by a member of the public near some cliffs at Tynemouth Pier this morning (24/2/09).
The specimen is in near perfect condition and has been taken to the nearby Blue Reef Aquarium where aquarists will try to determine how it died.
The world's longest species of bony fish, the oarfish can grow up to lengths of eight metres - although there have been reports of individuals more than double that length.
Due to its great size, bizarre appearance and strange undulating way of swimming it is thought the oarfish is responsible for many 'sea monster' sightings over the centuries. It is also known as the 'King of Herrings'.
Blue Reef curator, Zahra d'Aronville, said: "Until relatively recently sightings of oarfish were incredibly rare. These creatures live at depths of up to a kilometre and have hardly ever been filmed.

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http://www.bluereefaquarium.co.uk/news-from-tynemouth/oarfish.htm

[albiealert]

Gawker last Tuesday[/COLOR] (http://gawker.com/5030531/dead-monster-washes-ashore-in-montauk).



http://gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2008/07/IMG_1883_3_.JPG

Along with many others, I've been biting my lips in anticipation - just what the hell is this thing? (And why do we want to know so badly?)

Finding out is a matter of patience, and counting on the omniscience of the internet. I told my partner, "It's probably not a hoax, and eventually a savvy biologist will surface and tell us exactly what this thing is and what happened to it."

That biologist is Darren Naish of Tetrapod Zoology (http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/08/the_montauk_monster.php).

He's written an excellent article with new photographs, skull comparisons and decayed details photoshopped in.

Check him out to discover the true identify of the Montauk (http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/08/the_montauk_monster.php)
Monster!




http://imbrickle.blogspot.com/2008/08/montauk-monster-identified.html

I remember that it was all over the news, that guy got a lot of publicity out of that.

[dogfish]

One of the original sea monsters.:scared:
gUaL6hHluZ8

[DarkSkies]

Sent in by Rip-plugger, thanks!


http://www.history.com/shows/monsterquest/videos/playlists/water-monsters#the-legend-of-loch-ness

[baitstealer]

I would never go diving in the loch ness. I don't care how much of a myth it is. That place is so deep it has to hold something big.

[DarkSkies]

Freakish giant sturgeon, mystery fish....Folly Beach, SC

Sent in by Finchaser,thanks!
http://news.discovery.com/animals/marine-monster-mystery-120328.html

[hookedonbass]

Man that was nasty it looked like a dinosaur tail!

[williehookem]

The Smithsonian has some pretty awesome ones


The Scariest Monsters of the Deep SeaWe took the spook-tacular celebration to the depths of the ocean, where some of the craziest—and scariest—looking creatures lurk in the dark.By Emily G. Frost and Hannah Waters




October 30, 2012, Subscribe (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/subArticleTopWeb)

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Learn more about the
ocean from the
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(Ocean Portal / David Shale)

Red Octopus (Stauroteuthis syrtensis)
This red octopus is eerily beautiful. Found in the deep Atlantic waters off the U.S. Coast, the eight arms of Stauroteuthis syrtensis are connected by webbing that it uses to swim. Rows of glowing bioluminescent suckers (http://ocean.si.edu/slideshow/bioluminescent-animals-photo-gallery) trail down its eight arms and glow in the deep-sea (http://ocean.si.edu/deep-ocean-exploration). Scientists think these glow-in-the-dark suckers may be used to attract planktonic prey like insects drawn to a light. The species has been recognized for at least 100 years, but it wasn't until 1999 that scientists realized it glowed.

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[albiealert]

How about this 2 headed shark?

http://news.yahoo.com/2-headed-shark-fetus-netted-fisherman-174049627.html
2-Headed Shark Fetus Netted by Fisherman

By Douglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer | LiveScience.com – 5 hrs ago






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View Photo (http://stripersandanglers.com/lightbox/two-headed-shark-photo--1563226594.html) LiveScience.com - A radiograph of the two-headed shark. (Photo By Journal of Fish Biology / C. M. Wagner et al)






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When a fisherman caught a bull shark recently off the Florida Keys, he came across an unlikely surprise: One of the shark's live fetuses had two heads.
The fisherman kept the odd specimen, and shared it with scientists, who described it in a study (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.12064/abstract;jsessionid=68B8DB69B53C1D9398B8677EB97C08 96.d01t01) published online today (March 25) in the Journal of Fish Biology. It's one of the very few examples of a two-headed shark ever recorded — there about six instances in published reports — and the first time this has been seen in a bull shark (http://www.livescience.com/3709-shark-science.html), said Michael Wagner, a study co-author and researcher at Michigan State University.
Technically called "axial bifurcation," the deformity is a result of the embryo beginning to split into two separate organisms, or twins, but doing so incompletely, Wagner told OurAmazingPlanet. It's a very rare mutation that occurs across different animals, including humans.
"Halfway through the process of forming twins, the embryo stops dividing," he said.
The two-headed fetus likely wouldn't have lived for very long in the wild, he said. "When you're a predator that needs to move fast to catch other fast-moving fish … that'd be nearly impossible with this mutation," he said. [See the two-headed shark (http://www.livescience.com/28152-two-headed-shark.html).]
Wagner said the description of the deformed shark may someday help better understand how these deformities arise in sharks and other animals.
Two-headed snakes and turtles can be bought from certain specialty breeders, and there is a small market for such creatures, Wagner said.
Several of the few examples of two-headed sharks available today come from museum specimens from the late 1800s, when deformed animals and other macabre curiosities (http://www.livescience.com/16841-victorian-microscope-slides-gallery.html) fetched high prices, he said.
Another reason the two-headed shark likely wouldn't have survived: its small body. "It had very developed heads, but a very stunted body," Wagner said. There's only so much energy that can go into the body's development, and it went into the shark's double noggins, he added.

[voyager35]

bassbuddah that blobfish is definitely crazy looking.
Here is one that was on a nat geo special it is a deep sea fish called barrel eye fish


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoygy-8PTtU

[albiealert]

Cool It looks so benign but is a great hunter because of that. Even manages to steal food from other fish.

[bababooey]

From reuters.com

Jaw-inspiring: Ancient fish was pivotal in evolution of face






http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/i/newscms/2014_07/182876/140212-romundina-face-6p_e370ce7e0394478084cf98c66f76677e.jpgVincent Dupret The skull of small fossil fish Romundina, 415 million years old, was scanned at the ESRF and digitally reconstructed in three dimensions.

WASHINGTON - Let's face it. It's easy to take for granted that mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish — vertebrates just like people — have a face. But it has not always been the case.
The first creatures with a backbone — jawless fish from hundreds of millions of years ago — did not. Scientists have been eager to learn how the evolution of the face unfolded.
A small, primitive armored fish known as Romundina that swam the seas 415 million years ago and whose fossilized remains were unearthed in the Canadian Arctic is providing some revealing answers.
With Romundina at the center of their work, Swedish and French researchers described in a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday the step-by-step development of the face as jawless vertebrates evolved into creatures with jaws.
The evolution of the jaw led to development of the face.
Romundina, one of the earliest jawed fish, was found to boast a mix of primitive features seen in jawless fish and more modern ones that appear in fish with jaws. Its head had a distinctive anatomy, with a very short forebrain and an odd "upper lip" extending forward in front of the nose, they said.
Romundina was a type of fish called a placoderm that thrived during the Silurian and Devonian periods in Earth's history but disappeared about 360 million years ago. It was small, but some placoderms like the fearsome Dunkleosteus became apex predators bigger than a great white shark.
Per Ahlberg, an expert in vertebrate evolution at Uppsala University in Sweden, said Romundina was roughly 8 inches long, had a small defensive spine on its back and had jaws without real teeth but with flat crushing plates.
Its front end was encased in armor, while its back end was flexible, with fins and a shark-like tail, Ahlberg said. It may have hunted small invertebrates like worms and crustaceans.
While the very first vertebrates were jawless, the only ones left are lampreys and hagfishes.
"The face is one of the most important and emotionally significant parts of our anatomy, so it is interesting to understand how it came into being," Ahlberg said by email.
— Reuters

[captnemo]

Thought this was pretty interesting. It's called a sea devil.
http://news.discovery.com/animals/rare-sea-monster-caught-on-film-141124.htm


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iOpFz7YYmM

[storminsteve]

Just read this and thought it would qualify.

Rare goblin shark caught in Australian trawl net
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/rare-goblin-shark-caught-australian-trawl-net/

[seamonkey]

Awesome thread fellas. Here is one I found
http://touch.sun-sentinel.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82923454/

[seamonkey]

another one from brazil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfUaRCZMUes

[rockhopper]

Yeah they said i was a special kind of octopus sea monkey. I would have thought it was giant squid too. Thanks for sharing it was pretty cool. The other thing is a giant portuguese man o war.

[porgy75]

Kind of interesting check out this sea monster.
http://www.grindtv.com/wildlife/mysterious-horned-sea-monster-washes-ashore-in-spain/#wOKbTJUmgrlKyJEI.97

[CharlieTuna]

Classic


https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=68&v=WwwyCW10i7Q

[bababooey]

"Iam flipped over this" 15 feet long tropical fish? I have no comment on that guy above. Except that he is also well known for the phrase "do you want fries with that?":laugh:

[bababooey]

Came across this pretty cool article on seamonsters and pirate ships.
http://www.omgfacts.com/throwback/17521/Why-You-See-All-Those-Sea-Monsters-On-Old-Pirate-Maps-ab963-2

[bababooey]

New one discovered in england
http://secondnexus.com/ecology-and-sustainability/new-plesiosaur-skeleton-unearthed/?utm_content=inf_10_1164_2&tse_id=INF_dea6ffd282074717b489ef00b1efb77f

[bababooey]

batfish, pretty bizarre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8LnMLzABs

[fishgutz]

Bizarre for sure, thanks for the share.