Bathynomus Giganteus (Giant Isopod)

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Posted on Saturday, June 2, 2007
Uploaded by Nomran619

Image credit: NOAA

Uploader comment: A front shot of a giant isopod. Looks freaky doesn't it?

Image status: EXPLAINED This is a real creature that lives in the depths of the Atlantic ocean.

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#10 Posted by ravenlady13 on 6/23/2007

This is not a creature I would want to anger..... ugh, creepy-scary- if I saw this, I'd be on the phone with an exterminator, and then a very good therapist.

#9 Posted by lloyd a on 6/27/2007

OMG this thing is so scary im already scared looking at it....i never wanna see this creature in real life i'd go bolestic OMG the thing is so scary looking

#8 Posted by debunkster on 7/25/2007

Lucky they're a very deep-water species. I read somewhere that they taste like crabmeat, and we'd probably drive them extinct in a hundred years if they weren't too deep down to be worth catching.

#7 Posted by necrochildk on 8/29/2007

It still amazes me how they have those silvery eyes. Btw, you guys know the closest relative to this thing are wood lice? Roly polys, also known as pill bugs. The little buggies aren't bugs, but actually tiny terrestrial crustaceans.

#6 Posted by necrochildk on 8/29/2007

XD So don't squish em or this guy'll come after ya!

#5 Posted by gooders on 9/23/2007

What is it with you guys? I think it has quite a cute aspect to it :3

#4 Posted by secret_squirrel on 10/28/2007

I want to scratch it's chin. I'll call him bobber.

#3 Posted by tinisle on 12/17/2007

Necrochild - in the UK we call them woodlice. Pill bugs is a good name. My mother (who was born a very long time ago) called them pigs, which I suppose was a regional English name. She also called ants "emmets". Here's a bit of cinema trivia. In a 1930s movie called "Five Star Final", Boris Karloff played a crooked divinity student called Rev. Isopod!

#2 Posted by raptros on 1/6/2008

Those things live thousands of feet below the ocean. How can it live on the surface. And also, The recon had to bring him up slowly. The rapid de-compression would cause you red blood cells to explode if you came up to fast. Grouesome

#1 Posted by amanda_the_awesome on 1/28/2009

This is very scary. I hate crabs and this looks like a giant crab. But I can see in a way how people say this is cute.

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