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Old 11-27-2010, 04:39 PM
 
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This think looks wicked sick.

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Scanning the depths off the Philippines in 2007, an undersea robot beamed back video of a worm—or was it a squid, or a worm eating a squid?—with spiraling appendages, iridescent "oars," and a feathery "nose."

"When the image came onto the screen, everyone said, Oh my gosh, what's that?" recalled marine zoologist Laurence Madin of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

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Old 11-28-2010, 09:10 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Lots of weird stuff swimming around in the ocean. Makes me thing we've just scratched the surface.
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Old 12-02-2010, 10:30 AM
 
Location: Orlando, Florida
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It takes more than a squid worm, however flamboyant, to delight me....
but I'm happy the experts are having a good time.
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