Unknown sea creatures washed up after tsunami
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Anyone knows what were these animals or have their pics please post them.
Are they new species previously undiscovered? -
rubbish.
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so ? there are still millions of creatures out there thats still unknown.
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agree.Originally posted by crazy monkey:so ? there are still millions of creatures out there thats still unknown. -
Ask someone to forward you the email lah.
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so they finally found the merlion?
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forward to me too ^^
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haha...gd one gordonator.
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this site got the pictures
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/seacreatures.html
http://www.users.on.net/~geoffn/seawolves/deep_fish/ -
So weird
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any human like sotong wash up?
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Originally posted by mr_sotong:any human like sotong wash up?
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lol.. all so interesting... look like neopets.. LOL
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the tsunamis only affects the shallow parts of the sea
how can it wash up deep sea creatures -
oh my this is scary.
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Hmmm.... any more???
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is the crab edible?
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no crocodile?
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Wow imagine if we had those Japanese snow crabs with legs THAAAAAT long!
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got a feeling that crab will somehow jump onto your face and turn u into a zombie like those in half-life.
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imagine this crab enlaraged and in darker color, then stand up tall with all legs straight, does it look like the thing in "war of the world"?Originally posted by Gordonator:oh my this is scary.
btw, talking about unknown creatures, do u guys heard about "flying rods"??
some ppl say it's unknown creature that's in a rod shape that flys real fast.
some ppl say that it's normal insects/birds, it's just the picture effect that make it look like a rod. -
washed up after tsunami? rubbish la. why people always want to believe these silly urbal myths i dun know. tsunamis don't affect the bottom of the ocean... THAT bit of knowledge already should tell u that its a hoax.
anyways, its is been debunked here:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/creature.aspIt seems like any unusual or remarkable photographs connected with oceanic phenomena are being attributed to the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, and this collection of pictures is more of the same.
Although they are genuine images of some rather strange deep-sea creatures, these photographs have nothing to do with the Indian Ocean tsunami. They date from mid-2003 and were taken as part of the NORFANZ voyage, a joint Australian-New Zealand research expedition conducted in May-June 2003 to explore deep sea habitats and biodiversity in the Tasman Sea. These photographs can be viewed on Australia's National Oceans Office web site. -
Hmm... hard to tell you know... cause waves according to knowledge, travelled in circulated patterns...
So it is quite possible for deep sea creatures been swept from deep down in the sea and circulated in the wave patterns until it breaks (aka the high waves)....
Could be... -
i'll refute even a "could be" on several grounds:Originally posted by caleb_chiang:Hmm... hard to tell you know... cause waves according to knowledge, travelled in circulated patterns...
So it is quite possible for deep sea creatures been swept from deep down in the sea and circulated in the wave patterns until it breaks (aka the high waves)....
Could be...
1) such creatures live in excess of as much as 10 km below the sea. The tsunami, even if it were 100m tall, would pale in comparism to that sort of depth, as such, it is highly unlikely that the tsunami would be able to disturb creatures who live this far down
2) tsunamis are very shallow while far from shore and thus largely unable to cause any deep sea disturbance to these creatures. depths in the oceans of several km are mostly found far off shore, and knowing the geology of the affected area, we can safely say that there are no deep underwater areas near any of the shores, so it would be impossible for any wave near shore to have disturbed any deep sea environment. far out at sea, even a tsunami like the one in december barely disturbed ships, pleasure craft and divers out at sea, it is highly doubtful it could have reached all the way several km down and washed such creatures up.
3) normally creatures of the deep do not get washed up, they usually decompse at the bottom and become nutrients for other creatures of the deep. so it is almost impossible that any remains have been swept up and then circulated in the wave patterns until it could be wash ashore by the tsunami. besides, the specimens in the pictures look relatively fresh, and certainly do not look like remains which have been dead for a period of time b4 being washed ashore.
so according to knowledge, it is quite IMPOSSIBLE for deep sea creatures to have been swept from deep down in the sea and circulated in the wave patterns until it breaks. -
right on ya...Originally posted by HENG@:i'll refute even a "could be" on several grounds:
1) such creatures live in excess of as much as 10 km below the sea. The tsunami, even if it were 100m tall, would pale in comparism to that sort of depth, as such, it is highly unlikely that the tsunami would be able to disturb creatures who live this far down
2) tsunamis are very shallow while far from shore and thus largely unable to cause any deep sea disturbance to these creatures. depths in the oceans of several km are mostly found far off shore, and knowing the geology of the affected area, we can safely say that there are no deep underwater areas near any of the shores, so it would be impossible for any wave near shore to have disturbed any deep sea environment. far out at sea, even a tsunami like the one in december barely disturbed ships, pleasure craft and divers out at sea, it is highly doubtful it could have reached all the way several km down and washed such creatures up.
3) normally creatures of the deep do not get washed up, they usually decompse at the bottom and become nutrients for other creatures of the deep. so it is almost impossible that any remains have been swept up and then circulated in the wave patterns until it could be wash ashore by the tsunami. besides, the specimens in the pictures look relatively fresh, and certainly do not look like remains which have been dead for a period of time b4 being washed ashore.
so according to knowledge, it is quite IMPOSSIBLE for deep sea creatures to have been swept from deep down in the sea and circulated in the wave patterns until it breaks.