Saturday, March 22, 2008

Giant Sea Creatures

The most extensive survey of data of New Zealand's Antartic waters completed to date was recently finished with startling conclusions. It turns out that there are sea creatures in these waters that are growing to astonishing sizes. The lack of predators and high quantity of oxygen has led to a "race" of super sea creatures. These include large sea spiders (I don't know what a normal size is for a sea spider but still, large sea spiders must be scarey), jellyfish with 12 ft tentacles, huge sea snails (lookout, they move faster than normal snails), and starfish "the size of big food platters." Why a starfish's size is compared to a food platter I am not quite sure, but that sounds pretty big.

Although these creatures are not yet carnivores, imagine the repurcussions when they eventually become meat eaters. Antartic sea creatures with bad attitudes that are the size of big food platters sounds pretty scarey to me.


(Look at how smug that stingray is wearing that dead woman's hat and all. No shame. Unbelievable.)
This coupled with the fact that stingrays are jumping out of the water and into boats to kill people sounds like we may have a sea creature revolt on our hand. Sea creatures we once thought to be harmless are on murderous rampages, and others which we thought to be slow and locked up in frigid cold temperatures are strengthening and increasing in size in order to attack. If we don't do something about this quick, me thinks we're going to have a war on our hands. A war with giant sea creatures, but this time Kevin Costner won't be there to save us.

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