The science of sea monsters

[UM-Bot]

Sea monsters are in the news and on television like never before. NBC has a hit show on Monday nights with "Surface," about a huge, terrifying aquatic creature, and sea monsters grace the cover of the December 2005 issue of National Geographic.

Scientists working in Patagonia, South America, recently found remains of a 13-foot beast with four-inch teeth.

View: Full Article | Source: Live Science

[darkknight]

The conclusion, published in Biological Bulletin: the samples matched exactly those of various species of great whales. The DNA and molecular structure were unmistakable, and "when the microscopic anatomy and biochemical composition of the Chilean and Nantucket Blobs are compared with those of the other remains, similarities are manifest. Thus, there is no doubt that they are all derived from the same type of organism."

The mysterious globsters were simply whale remains.

this is very logical....

[Daughter of the Nine Moons]

The largest giant squid specimen, found in New Zealand, was estimated to be 65 feet long. On Sept. 30, 2004, Japanese zoologists Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori became the first to see and film a giant squid at depth. The creature, about 26 feet long, was found at a depth of 2,953 feet (900 meters). The researchers, searching whale feeding areas in the North Pacific near the Ogasawara Islands, used bait and a remote camera to film the creature.

I remember reading about this but I don't remember hearing that they actually released the footage.

[frogfish]

Ahhhhh, the wonderful Mysteries of the deep...

[RedRaider9981]

I wish we could see the footage of that giant squid.

[Daughter of the Nine Moons]

No AveSatani, the article states that:

"Scientists working in Patagonia, South America, recently found remains of a 13-foot beast with four-inch teeth. The creature, dubbed "Godzilla" by its discoverers, is a distant relative of today's crocodiles and lived about 135 million years ago. "

[__Kratos__]

I remember reading about this but I don't remember hearing that they actually released the footage.

I wish we could see the footage of that giant squid.

Yeah, they did...

Link to Video Clip of Giant Squid

Video still works, just watched part of it.

[Daughter of the Nine Moons]

Thank you Kratos, I just watched it and I must say it was awesome.

[Iron Aden]

It was pretty awsome.