real life sea monster!?

[lepage]

yikes!

your gonna need a bigger boat.......er I mean fly swatter!

Monster bug? It's no joke! - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com

[clemso]

Right.. so who is going to believe a photo like that on April 1st

[Bill]

I think we call those lobsters.

[Gorn Captain]

Deep sea beasties can get really big, like giant squid.
My vote is: "True"....

[jds1911a1]

There are trilobite creatures in the fossil records like that (I've seen them on on of the bbc walking with Monasters Life before the Dinosaurs special) so it isn't impoassible that some exist in deep water.

as far as big inverebrates in the modern era look at the japanese Spider crab
Japanese spider crab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
it makes a king crab look like a maryland blue crab

[megocrazy]

That's really not that big. It looks like a streamlined horshoe crab. We get those coming right out of the water at 2 feet+ if you count the tail around here. You'll see em sitting on the edge of the water right on the beach.
We have spider crabs too but the cold water stops em from ever getting that big. 2-3 feet would not be surprising. We pull em up all the time when we fish for flatfish(flounder). They can pick the bait right off your hook and you never even know they're there. Thing is they won't let go until they get everything. You reel em in and they hold on. No fight it's like you're reeling in seaweed. I was like 7 or 8 the first time I got one. Freaky to see that thing materialize out of the murky depths.

[txteach]

If it was real shrimp boats would be clammering to fish that site where it was found. My vote real fake.

[vintage spideyfan]

I believe it to be real. If anyone caught the deep sea portion of discovery channel's "Planet Earth", it featured these for a brief moment.

[toys2cool]

I think it's real also

[vintage spideyfan]

I believe it to be real. If anyone caught the deep sea portion of discovery channel's "Planet Earth", it featured these for a brief moment.

Here's the clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOSX...eature=related

[Cmonster]

I grabbed a real life sea monster once too... Lobster dive last winter at Catalina Island. Freedive, too... NO tanks.



SC

[Adam West]

I bet that big sea bug would taste good boiled with lots of butter.

[saildog]

One of the comments under the original article:

"Do you realize how much **** you're going to be in once Cthulhu finds out his dog's missing?"

[Meule]

Right.. so who is going to believe a photo like that on April 1st

We ran this story in the newspaper the day before yesterday, it's no April Fool's joke

[saildog]

We ran this story in the newspaper the day before yesterday, it's no April Fool's joke

Actually, I think the funniest April Fools joke would be to run a story that was absolutely true, but hard to believe, on a day where everyone was expecting to be duped.

In looking it up on the Web, most of the entries come from the last two days. However, there is such a creature, but it is typically much smaller than the 30-inches claimed in the article.

My ONLY doubt is the photo, the timing, and the title..."Monster bug? It's no joke! ". I do NOT doubt that the species Bathynomus giganteus exists. That is well documented, easily found in a Web search (on National Geographic and the Smithsonian), and it looks like the picture.