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Old 06-23-10, 07:37 AM   #1
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Default What's brown, has eight legs, and is scary as hell?

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

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Old 06-23-10, 07:44 AM   #2
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Gah! I managed to finish breakfast while watching that.
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Old 06-23-10, 08:12 AM   #3
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Nature does some strange things. Blue crab scuff out also but the soft shell blue crab is a delicacy.
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<shrugs> what is so scary about it? its just a crab shedding it's old skeleton, crabs do that all the time.
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I was fishing one time, and cought one of those... hmm, ugly bastards...
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Are you kidding me? That's probably the coolest looking crustacean we know of

Now if it was 30 feet tall...
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Old 06-23-10, 08:41 AM   #7
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Are you kidding me? That's probably the coolest looking crustacean we know of

Now if it was 30 feet tall...
Now if it only had lasers for eyes... WEAPON OF MASS DISTRUCTION!!!!!
(STOP CHANGEING THE PIC! lol)
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Old 06-23-10, 09:30 AM   #8
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(STOP CHANGEING THE PIC! lol)
(STOP QUOTING ME SO SOON! )
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Old 06-23-10, 09:34 AM   #9
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Elbow squid defeats all

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Elbow squid defeats all

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Old 06-23-10, 02:14 PM   #11
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Elbow squid defeats all

Isn't that the thing from "Alien"?
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Are you kidding me? That's probably the coolest looking crustacean we know of

Now if it was 30 feet tall...
http://www.theonion.com/video/expert...ed-crab,14318/

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<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.
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What is this? What a beautiful animal
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