Wierd news : An OctoSquid!!!

[koolbluez]

"A unique creature, a cephalopod, that's been dubbed an 'octosquid' with eight arms and a squid-like mantle, was discovered off Hawaii. The creature, of a previously unknown species, was trapped in the net covering a 3,000 foot-deep intake tube for the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. From the article: 'The octosquid was pulled to the surface, along with three rattail fish and half a dozen satellite jellyfish, and stayed alive for three days. According to War, the lab usually checks its filters once a month, but this time, it put a plankton net in one of the filters and checked it two weeks later. The pitch-black conditions at 3,000 feet below sea level are unfamiliar to most but riveting to scientists who have had the opportunity to submerge. The sea floor is full of loose sediment, big boulders and rocks, and a lot of mucuslike things floating in the water, which are usually specimens that died at the surface and drifted to the bottom."

- SlashDot

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[Apollo]

Looks like a squid with a half-eaten octopus sticking out of its mouth.

 

[iamtheone]

^^

 

[rajasekharan]

i must say, nice news...
thanks for putting it here.

 

[fun2sh]

wel i will say mutation exist every where. AND WE MAY SEE X-MEN IN NEXT 100 YEARS

 

[QwertyManiac]

It ain't mutation really, we don't know much yet of what lurks in those deep trenches or on the beds of the oceans. We might hardly know about half of the types of aquatic life so far.

 

[koolbluez]

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