Friday, December 7th, 2007
Giant Squid: Caught On Camera! Discovery Channel Tonight!
Tonight we finally get a chance to see the first-ever footage of a living Giant Squid. It’s been almost a year since this one was caught by Japanese researchers off the Ogasawara islands, south of Tokyo.
AP Photo/Tsunemi Kubodera of the National Science Museum of Japan
The show airs twice tonight, at 8pm Eastern, and 12am. See [...]
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Incredible Oarfish Sighting Photos
photo: Kidjurel from BloodyDecks.com
In doing a Google Image search for oarfish, I found a really great forum entry with some incredible oarfish photos. Check it out here.
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
More Deep Sea Creatures
Super-awesome Sea spider. (I’m pretty sure that’s the Latin name)
photo: Paul H. Yancey Ph.D.
Sometimes it’s best to go straight to the source. I just found this page with a large number of very raw photos of deep sea critters. The site is from Paul H. Yancey Ph.D., who is a [...]
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
MonsterQuest on the History Channel Takes on the Giant Squid
I LOVE giant squids. The show MonsterQuest on the History Channel just aired a show all about the quest for the giant squid. It was pretty fun. I don’t think I ever want to get in salt water again. I’m not going to spoil the end for you, but I will say that they find [...]
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Awesome Deep Sea and Giant Squid T-Shirts
Over the weekend my wife and I went to a great craft fair in Pittsburgh called Handmade Arcade. One of the vendors that really caught my eye was a t-shirt printing joint called SquidFire out of Baltimore Maryland. They have a great, unusual take on deep-sea creatures, and they have all kinds of [...]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Colossal Squid Caught in Antarctic Waters!
As if Giant Squids weren’t cool enough, BEHOLD THE COLOSSAL SQUID!!! Larger than it cousin the giant squid, and believed to be nastier, this is the first living specimen ever caught, and the first to ever be captured on film. Of course it died in the capturing, but the footage should be incredibly [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Rare Deep-Sea Frilled Shark Filmed in Japan
Japanese fisherman found a living deep-sea Frilled Shark this week. Although science did know about this shark before now, it has rarely been seen alive, and this has got to be the best video footage ever taken of the eel-like “living fossil”. Deep-sea creatures are so cool.
Check out the video here.
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
Real Sea Monsters!
First of all, I love the ocean creatures. I’m not sure why, but sea life has always fascinated me, and deep-sea creatures have always been my favorites. The environment they live in is so extreme, and they tend to be FREAKY lookin’!
One of the few Oarfish ever seen surfaced at Santa Catalina Island, [...]
