I mean if there are still giant squids do you think that there might still be 100 foot sharks in there? Or maybe even worse....
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I'd like to think of that finding as a positive thing.
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I know some guys that work for NOAA and do fisheries statistics on the open water in the Pacific.  They ride along on commercial fishing vessels and count the different types and varieties of fishes and then plug their numbers into a preformatted excel program that has been designed to estimate population sizes based on biostats of the fishes (weight, age, color, etc).  I'll have to ask them next time I see them how their sampling model reflects population sizes.\n\nEDIT\n\nSo I ran into today, he said they measure the amount of area they cover in square miles and the amount of fish they take in said area.  Then they extrapolate to the whole Pacific Ocean.  He said that although it isn't an exact method, the year to year population averages of all the different fish populations don't vary much, even though they cover different areas and different sized areas each year.
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in some parts of the ocean it can be miles deep. the ocean covers 2/3 of the earth, and we find new species in it all the time. there are still many primitive species alive today, such as the shark and the horseshoe crab. they are species that are millions of years old. i think that there could be many more dinosaur related species yet to be discovered. it's completely possible.
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My dad used to work at a planetarium and in the gift shop they claimed to sell aquatic "dinosaurs". They were in fact really weird trilobite things. One of them outlived all the others and was like 3 inches long. It was the creepiest thing I ever saw. Maybe they should start mass marketing those instead of the Sea Monkeys. They're far more impressive.
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I was able to find a black marlin @ 1560 Lbs caught in Peru  and a Greenland shark caught in Norway that weighed in at 1708lbs 9oz!  I didn't find any pics but if anyone has them I would like to see them.
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Mega fauna, like Woolly Mammoths and Saber tooth Tigers, have no chance of ever re evolving, but there are still giant mammals, on the planet earth. Elephants, giraffes, muskox, lions, tigers and the largest animal ever to inhabit our planet, the blue whale, are still very much around, at least for the time being. It would be fantastic if some of the recently extinct, mega fauna, like the woolly  mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, the giant cave bear, the giant irish elk and the giant three toed land sloth were still roaming parts of our plant. Could you imagine a saber tooth tiger roaming around the hills surrounding Los Angeles, now that would be cool. Unfortunately the recently extinct species, that have been gone for 12,000 years, have little scientific chance, of ever being reintroduced, with today's scientific technology.  The future is wide open however, and the technology might soon exist to reanimate, many of these incredible species, how great would that be. I would love to see a 8,000 pound, 12 foot tall sloth. I only wish the future would hurry up and get here. The expectation and excitement of such developments, are wildly frustrating.\nGreat Question
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Come on now...35,000?  450ft long?  75ft wide?  That's a football stadium.  Zippy chance there was a vessel that large and zippy chance 35,000 animals were on it.  It's just a story...as for the fabled crap on the boat, the animals just ate it and the food...makes for a better story.  One more thing.  No way anyone made it to 600+...I mean what eventually kills a guy who has lived 600 years?  Ahh, he probably ate the same crap the animals did.
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A museum in Britain recently got a hold of a fairly well preserved one about 28 feet long.  I believe larger ones have been found, and based on (spikes?  sucker marks? beaks of eaten squid?) measured on sperm whales, truly humongous ones are out there.  \n\nA Japanese team got several photographs of a live one, a major first. The National Geo article linked to below has more history on giant squid observations.\n\nThey are hard to find because they live very deep and the oceans are large to boot.  Something like that is going to need a large hunting area so there won't be a huge concentration of them.
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A bear, because it would probably be the quickest. All they do is take swipes at you right? So if they did, and you got knocked unconscious, then you wouldn't have to suffer through the rest. All the other ones would hurt like mad! And with the shark and killer whale, you would suffocate under the water, and I think one of the worst ways to die would be drowning, burning, or falling from a high height.
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It looks like a mutated mahi- mahi , but honestly I think it's fake- look at it, it looks plastic- the eyes are open but green and there isn't an actual eye ball. Don't you think if it was real form of ocean life that there would have been some sort of follow up info on the news? check google this is the only thing that comes up- this video. \nI think it's a hoax. \n\nThanks though- it's creepy I'll have night mares for a week.\n\nbut on another thought- There is this over all fascination with mermaids. yes, traditional pictures are pretty- and the though of having friendly,English speaking, magical allies is appealing- but I wonder if "mermaids" looked like this would they all end up in sold at exotic fish stores , or killed and packaged in tuna? ( " Now with mermaid meat!")
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I dive with them all the time without a cage. I live in Miami and we go diving with sharks every weekend. The only Shark I would be concerned about would be a great white. We see Mako's, bull, hammerhead, etc. all the time. They will not hurt you unless you have a fish or look like an easy meal.
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There is 1 baby female living at Sea World San Diego, but I don't know if she's visible to the public. This little 7 footer currently has the record for surviving in captivity - 54 days as of 11/7/2006.\n\nGreat Whites don't survive after they're captured, and scientists are trying to figure out why. The previous record was 16 days back in August 1981.\n\nFor some reason, after about 10 days sharks stop eating, start swimming erratically, bumping off of walls, and eventually sink to the bottom of the holding tank, where they drown. If a shark doesn't keep water over its gills, it doesn't get any oxygen and dies.\n\nLots of things have proven to be involved - great whites can detect as little as 0.01 volts of electricity in the water. This transient voltage interferes with their guidance or feeding instincts and they batter themselves against the cage trying to get to the source of the signal. \n\nThe facility in San Diego has no electronics of any kind directly mounted on or near the tank. The tank is also significantly bigger than previous efforts: 1,000,000+ gallons. The researchers also took several days to acclimate the young shark in a fenced off area of the ocean, gradually reducing the size until it was the same size as its million gallon intended home.\n\nDespite years of research, very little is actually known about Great Whites. How deep they can go? What are their reproductive habits? How often do they give birth? Why are their movement patterns over a lifetime? All of these questions are still mysteries.\n\nGive it a few years. Once we get answers to some of the basic questions, we might be able to keep them in captivity. Hopefully we'll be able to not only learn from them, but protect them so our children and grandchildren can enjoy them, too.\n\nHope that answers your question,\nOdd
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if plankton asks squidward, and squidward would tell him, it would be the end of the show. ;)
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No, I don't think we will find a TOTALLY new animal. Sure, people find new species of animals that are already classified. For instance a person could find a new undiscovered spider with unique markings on it's back and a brand new never before seen coloration, but it's still a spider and we know that spiders exist. I don't think people will find an animal that has to be put in a new kingdom, or subkingdom, or phylum (or whatever) unto it's own.
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The Dogfish shark is pretty small to be dangerous.  It's not much larger than a small cat... and like most craetures more scared of humans than anything else so no they are not going to attack you or anything.
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Yes, but it is so slow we won't register it. We only live a second, compared to the lifespan of the earth and it's evolving creatures. \nAs far as the spiders and other creatures are concerned, this is more of a fact of 'finding' and discovering new creatures, not necessarily that they just evolved.
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You want to exchange fish stories?You want to hear about the giant crappies that i caught?I have pictures of only their lips tho because i left them in water on a stringer to go make a drink.But they were HUGE.LOL . What is your biggest catch?