What's brown, has eight legs, and is scary as hell?

[AngusJS]

A giant spider crab...that is, until it sheds its exoskeleton. :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgCDcobtZHs&feature=player_embedded

[krashkart]

Gah! I managed to finish breakfast while watching that. :dead:

[AVGWarhawk]

Nature does some strange things. Blue crab scuff out also but the soft shell blue crab is a delicacy.

[NeonSamurai]

<shrugs> what is so scary about it? its just a crab shedding it's old skeleton, crabs do that all the time.

[Task Force]

I was fishing one time, and cought one of those... hmm, ugly bastards...:rotfl2:

[Weiss Pinguin]

http://www.photopassjapan.com/images/img%206646%20osaka%20wan%20tenpozan%20kaiyukan%20t akaashigani%20-%20osaka%20aquarium%20giant%20spider%20crab.jpg

Are you kidding me? That's probably the coolest looking crustacean we know of :DL

Now if it was 30 feet tall...

[Task Force]

http://www.jdmpics.com/animals/spider-crab.jpg

Are you kidding me? That's probably the coolest looking crustacean we know of :DL

Now if it was 30 feet tall...

Now if it only had lasers for eyes... :D WEAPON OF MASS DISTRUCTION!!!!!
(STOP CHANGEING THE PIC! lol)

[Weiss Pinguin]

(STOP CHANGEING THE PIC! lol)
(STOP QUOTING ME SO SOON! :p2:)

[Oberon]

Elbow squid defeats all :rock:

http://www.ioscorepublicans.org/SQUID2.jpg

[Weiss Pinguin]

Elbow squid defeats all :rock:

http://www.ioscorepublicans.org/SQUID2.jpg
http://shewalkssoftly.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/stauro_big-s640x633-2291-580.jpg

[nikimcbee]

Elbow squid defeats all :rock:

http://www.ioscorepublicans.org/SQUID2.jpg

Isn't that the thing from "Alien"?

[Takeda Shingen]

Are you kidding me? That's probably the coolest looking crustacean we know of :DL

Now if it was 30 feet tall...

http://www.theonion.com/video/experts-agree-giant-razorclawed-bioengineered-crab,14318/

Already underway.

[Platapus]

<shrugs> what is so scary about it? its just a crab shedding it's old skeleton, crabs do that all the time.

I agree. I think it is a beautiful thing. Nothing in nature is scary.

Well maybe camel spiders but they are from another planet. :o

[Platapus]

http://shewalkssoftly.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/stauro_big-s640x633-2291-580.jpgWhat is this? What a beautiful animal

[Jimbuna]

http://images34.fotki.com/v1191/free/434e1/1/1333248/6191001/Hugger16-vi.jpg?1210541734

:O:

[SteamWake]

8 legged eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axDpsLPhYSg&playnext_from=TL&videos=PC7WWLpVnrk&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh%2Bdiv-1r-4-HM

[krashkart]

^ Some spiders are cool.

McBee gets in on the action (12-legged spider):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DsaXfNgQZ4&feature=related

[jumpy]

I wish I could slough off my old life and feelings and dreams as easily as the crab in the op ditched its shell. *sigh*


ooh, that was bleak, even for me... :oops:

[Oberon]

Amazing vid there Steamwake :yep:

http://download.fredmunro.co.uk/stargate/half%20size/replicator.jpg

[Weiss Pinguin]

What is this? What a beautiful animal
Vampire squid, I believe:
Vampyroteuthis infernalis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_squid)

http://www.mbari.org/twenty/images/vamp.jpg

[Spoon 11th]

IMG: Osaka aquarium giant spider crab (http://www.photopassjapan.com/images/img%206646%20osaka%20wan%20tenpozan%20kaiyukan%20t akaashigani%20-%20osaka%20aquarium%20giant%20spider%20crab.jpg)



Starship troopers.

[Platapus]

Vampire squid, I believe:
Vampyroteuthis infernalis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_squid)

http://www.mbari.org/twenty/images/vamp.jpg

Thank you for researching that. What a beautiful and interesting animal. :up:

[Weiss Pinguin]

Thank you for researching that. What a beautiful and interesting animal. :up:
Oh yeah. I'd love to see one in person all the same (though I'd probably sh*te myself I met one up close :shifty:)

[Platapus]

Oh yeah. I'd love to see one in person all the same (though I'd probably sh*te myself I met one up close :shifty:)

Well at 2000-3000 feet deep, I think seeing one of these 1 foot long creatures would be the least of your problems. :D

[frau kaleun]

Oh yeah. I'd love to see one in person all the same (though I'd probably sh*te myself I met one up close :shifty:)

http://actinglikeanimals.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/129210273926957319.jpg?w=500&h=377

[Weiss Pinguin]

Well at 2000-3000 feet deep, I think seeing one of these 1 foot long creatures would be the least of your problems. :D
You're right... think of the colossal squid!!

[Task Force]

You're right... think of the colossal squid!!

hmm,It looks at you and thinks NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!