Strange Creatures from Below
You must check out this article and the accompanying interactive slide show from the New York Times. Tell what you think about some of these creatures!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/22deep.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:27 am
they are creepy and they are just unbeleaveable
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:28 am
ok, officialy creepy. The creatures look so wrong and why are they even in the ocean?
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:29 am
These animals are really creepy. They look like them mutated things little babies use as squishy toys. They all look like they live in the ocean. These creatures remind me of pokemon creatures, mutated and scarey.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:30 am
I wouldn’t want to mess with these creatures, they are pretty ugly, the articles is right it is beyond my imagination!
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:31 am
yeah uh….i pretty much think that they are all really creepy and gross looking…..
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:31 am
I think that that fanfin seadevil thingy looks like it could be a relative of the angler fish. The rest I have no idea. That dumbo octopus looks like somebody dropped a twinky into the water and it grew limbs and eyes.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:32 am
I have officially decided that the deep sea is not a place I care to go to, the creatures in the deep look mutated and scary. The ones that really effected me were the scaly sea dragon and the underwater devil. These ones are ugly and they seem kind of dangerous.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:32 am
The FanfinSeadevil is my favorite fish even anywhere. Ive seen it in movies and stuff before and I thought it was crazy looking and I really liked the long antenae kind of things coming of from its body.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:32 am
This creatures are very strange and creepy. They look soooooo weird. They kinda scare with me with their looks, and they remind me of something out of a cartoon. I would hate to run into one of these scary, freakish creatures.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:32 am
it is awsome that anmails can live down there and we did not now about them about now but it is werid. but imangie you had the fanfin seadragon as a pet i wonder what it eats. and also the dumbo octopus for a pet it would be so cool.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:33 am
DUDE those creatures were awsome, like that one that looked like some dudes spine, i think it was crawling away but it was SWEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTT i mean i want to be the spine creature!!!!!!!!.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:34 am
Well, what I have to say about these things is that they are very groddy looking in every way. And very unnatural. I would never want to see one in person
Christina, how can creatures that live in the ocean be unnatural? They are part of nature!
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:36 am
The Dumbo Octopus is just a little bit creepy and sort of ugly. The sea devil is very scary looking! It looks sort of like an angler fish. The ping pong tree sponge looks awesomely cool! That unidentified species looks like it probably came from another planet. It’s pretty cool. The deep-sea siphonophore (related to the jellyfish) looks like a plant, sort of. Boas scaly Dragonfish now thats a scary fish! But cool.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:28 am
They are scarry one of them looks like a dog eating boots. I think I am gonna have nightmares about this from now on b.c. they are scarry! =]
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:30 am
Well some of the creatures are cute and cool looking, others are really scary looking. I wouldn’t want to be with some of them in the same ocean. But I think that they were really interesting.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:31 am
I think that they look cool but I think that they are fake. The fish has hairs on its body now thats kind of creepy because I never seen fish with hair before. They look weird in a cool way but they would be qutie the cool pets if they existed. I like all the pictures they look very evil.
How can you decide if this site is fake or real? What other clues or research can you do to check?
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:31 am
The dumbo elephant:
It would be a good pet.
Or, we could start an illegal trade in them and make a fortune.
Or, we could stuff them and us them as wall ornaments.
Or, we could eat them.
The possibilities are endless.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:31 am
Awww the little yellow one with the little trunk and its all fat and pudgy and kinda ugly…… ITS WICKED CUTE! hahaha im gonna steal it and fry it up, and eat……. not really but i could try……… where do i find these things??? The dumbo octopuse, hahahahaha……. what a cute name……. but it doesnt have big ears, this doesn’t make sense….
am i missing something? is this like a joke i dont understand? is the joke on me? dont laugh at me!!! but yeah, very cool someof these thigns lok a little to unreal and so im not quite sure that they really exsist, but whoever created these, great imagination!
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:32 am
I think these creatures are pretty cool. I like the yellow one. It’s crazy to think that, those sea creatures are actually living animals. They look like toys. The yellow one looks like a peep, like the candy.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:32 am
WOW!! some of these creatures are really cool but the other ones are really reallly scary and I would not want to come across that in the ocean.. it would be soo freaky. I love the Pingpong tree sponge that looked really really cool.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:33 am
My favorite is the dumbo octopus I think that it is adorable. The Fanfin seadevil is scary looking I am afraid that it is going to come out and eat me when I am sleeping, gosh I always like the one that looks like lip it is called the sea devil i like how it looks like lips and the color of it is a darkish kind of red.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:33 am
the yellow fat round thing looks like one of those peeps.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:34 am
I have always had a passion for creatures of the deep, and the fact that we know more about the moon than the deep sea only lends to the mystique of under-water life and the strange things we find. I’ve seen a lot of these animals before but I could still study them for hours at a time.
Looking at all these macabre fish, I understand why people can become fascinated with ugly and scary things.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:34 am
the dumboo is just a little bit on the ugly side. it looks like a pregant duck. but its my favorite. you can tell that this site is real because i googled it and they are real.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:35 am
These creatures look like they found there way from outer space into our sea’s and are liveing there right now.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:36 am
I think they look like pretty interesting. I like the Dumbo octopus from the Monterey Bay’s floor. I know that I have never seen this kind of animals before. I think this web page is real because if you look up on the left hand coner it says The New York Times.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 9:41 am
My favorite is the pink seadevil cause it looks likes it’s lips are about to give you a big kiss lol!!!
My other favorite one is the yellow dumbo octopus fish. The blue one is a little bit weird. Now ummmmm….. that blue dumbo octopus isn’t the same exact thing as the yellow one…………..NO ANDREW JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT WE CAN NOT EAT THEM…..THAT IS JUST GROSS! And if I could i would keep it as a pet and not trade it!!! That last fish really scared me……..you can have/ trade/ or eat it all you want……that’s if it doesn’t eat you first!!!! SEA DRAGONS ARE IN MY NIGHTMARES HEHE!
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