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  • Monster bug? It's no joke! (30"-long isopod)

    03/31/2010 3:34:19 PM PDT · by OldDeckHand · 38 replies · 2,807+ views
    MSNBC.com ^ | 03/31/10 | Alan Boyle
    It may look like a creepy-crawly April Fool's joke - but an expert on deep-sea species says the bizarre giant bug shown in pictures circulating on the Internet is the real deal. "I've seen the pictures, and they are real, and they really do get that big," Craig McClain, assistant director of science for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in North Carolina, told me today. McClain specializes in deep-sea biological systems and covers the subject on his Weblog, Deep Sea News. So he was the go-to guy when pictures of the bug, reportedly hauled up aboard a remotely operated vehicle...