Eight Foot Sea Scorpion

Some discussion already on a REPOST

repost/revival, whatevah.

Oh, sorry. I did do a sloppy search before I posted.

Hard to find, these eight-foot sea scorpions :)

This is TOO IMPORTANT to merely revive an old thread for.

The creature, which has been named Jaekelopterus rhenaniae

I am now skeptical because of the name's suspicious similarity to jackalope, e.g.

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak/pub/nas/jackalope.jpg

:)

Oh man. GIS for jackalope led me to a horrid horrd page - WARNING not for bunny lovers or the squeamish:
ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/jacksforreal.html

Oops. Oh well perhaps its better not hyperlinked to protect the sensitive.

i got into a vicious argument with some guy once about whether jackalopes were real or not.

Did he say they weren't?

It seems like ages since we last had this, so:

http://www.2000adonline.com/covers/2000ad/hires/93.jpg

I don't know why that is so big.

Radiation?

Created in laboratory by mad scientists working for Garlic Butter Industrial Complex. See also: Old Bay board of directors...

Sinister.

The latest in my Versus/To the Death series:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2348/2070767624_4fc8dba666.jpg

links to masterpiece archive, plz

this has got to be viral marketing for Cloverfield

It started on ILX, with T-Rex vs Unicorn Driving a Monster Truck... which was followed by Tarkus vs Unicorn Riding a Hoverboard.

The first really "official" Versus battle was T-Rex vs Polar Bear.

Elephant vs Giant Sea Scorpion is officially 2nd, but it's the first one I've put any real time into: several hours this afternoon.

Wow, more of these, please!

:)

interesting that the jackalope got mentioned - I remember seeing one in a kid's TV programme which featured Wilf Lunn and Jeremy Beadle once, as part of a skit about non-existant animals, which had a lot of people wandering round a taxidermist's shop (or possibly a museum) which had a lot of stuffed animals in it which were obviously fake, inc a jackalope, and marvelling at the decsriptions thereof, until they finally encountered a duckbilled platypus, when they proceeded to laugh their heads off at the implausability of such a creature.

Wikipedia tells us this:

"The jackalope — also called an antelabbit, aunt benny, Wyoming thistled hare or stagbunny — in folklore is said to be a cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope (hence the name), goat, or deer, and is usually portrayed as a rabbit with antlers. Some believe that the tales of jackalopes were inspired by sightings of rabbits infected with the Shope papillomavirus"

which makes sense, Shope papillomavirus presumably being the lupine equivalent of what infects poor Indonesian tree man.