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Giant Marine Life Found in Antarctica (huge jellyfish! Yikes!)
apnews.myway.com ^ | 3-21-08 | RAY LILLEY

Posted on 03/21/2008 4:40:35 PM PDT by dynachrome

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish.

A 2,000-mile journey through the Ross Sea that ended Thursday has also potentially turned up several new species, including as many as eight new mollusks.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antartica; jellyfish; ocean
Yikes!
1 posted on 03/21/2008 4:40:37 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: blam

ping


2 posted on 03/21/2008 4:41:46 PM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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To: dynachrome

Steroids?


3 posted on 03/21/2008 4:42:31 PM PDT by derllak
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To: dynachrome; shaggy eel

En Zed Ping.


4 posted on 03/21/2008 4:42:31 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: dynachrome
No doubt it's due to global warming.
5 posted on 03/21/2008 4:43:25 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: derllak

AP.James Welsh.
Federal Jelly Reserves greater than thought.
Scientists discovery of enormous jellyfish in the Antarctic
have lead to a revision in the theory of Peak Jelly.
While discovery does not indicate greater reserves under the continental US. American researchers continue to remain
up beat with the latest news of a Jam to Jelly conversion
process.


6 posted on 03/21/2008 4:49:41 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Breaking.
AP. James Welsh
New discovery of conversion process announced.
Scientists examining the results of the process
were heard to exclaim, “It must be jelly, jam don’t shake like that!”.


7 posted on 03/21/2008 4:52:14 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: dynachrome

I say BS. What scientist would find a 2 foot starfish or a 12 foot jellyfish and not take a picture. It can’t be true. Who are these My Way people and why don’t they join the 20th century and put pictures with their articles?


8 posted on 03/21/2008 4:53:57 PM PDT by jjw
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To: jjw
A pic from the same article on Breitbart.com
9 posted on 03/21/2008 4:58:06 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter

That’s not a jelly fish!?!

I betcha real jelly fish all vote democrat. Goes with being spineless.


10 posted on 03/21/2008 5:15:13 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: dynachrome

The Portuguese Man of War has tentacles as long as 165 feet.


11 posted on 03/21/2008 5:25:15 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: tet68
jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles

Quick, let's check the obituaries, is Michael Dukakis missing? Or maybe it's the Archbishop of Canterbury....

12 posted on 03/21/2008 5:28:14 PM PDT by xJones
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To: xJones

These are a result of Global Warming. Bush’s fault!


13 posted on 03/21/2008 6:05:46 PM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001
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To: tet68

Lol! I want what you’re smoking! :)


14 posted on 03/21/2008 6:22:07 PM PDT by derllak
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To: Grimmy

Could be their new party symbol. And since we ended up with McCain because of them, our new symbol could be an elephant getting stung by a jellyfish.


15 posted on 03/21/2008 7:07:40 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: xJones

Not Dukakis or Archbishop of Canterbury. Just Al Gore on an Antarctic vacation.

Or perhaps it was the Cape Cod Orca in drag.

If you want to catch either of them, use Euro-dollars.


16 posted on 03/21/2008 7:21:30 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Secret Agent Man

LOL!


17 posted on 03/21/2008 7:44:16 PM PDT by Siberian-psycho (An oppressed class which did not try to possess arms, would deserve to be treated as slaves." Lenin)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“And since we ended up with McCain because of them, our new symbol could be an elephant getting stung by a jellyfish.”

Or, maybe, a rather pathetic elephant being dragged toward sure death in a tar pit by big ol’ grasping jellyfish tentacles?


18 posted on 03/21/2008 7:52:52 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: dynachrome

I caught a foot wide starfish crab fishing on the sea of othotsk.


19 posted on 03/21/2008 7:56:08 PM PDT by Siberian-psycho (An oppressed class which did not try to possess arms, would deserve to be treated as slaves." Lenin)
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