Topic 40 of 58: Sitings
Thu, Dec 27, 2001 (20:51) |
Alpha Wolf (wolf)
this the place to report on unusual species like giant squids or loch ness monstors. maybe even jack-o-lopes!
36 responses total.
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Response 1 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Dec 27, 2001 (20:54) * 1 lines
i would personally not go diving to see a giant squid but if you would or did, please say something about it here!
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Response 2 of 36: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Dec 27, 2001 (21:24) * 3 lines
I'm with you sitting on the shore. I'll look for where I first found the subject and post my results.
Hey, does this include some Neanderthal-types I happpen to have hanging around?
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Response 3 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Dec 27, 2001 (21:26) * 1 lines
*laugh* yup!!
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Response 4 of 36: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Dec 27, 2001 (21:27) * 32 lines
UNDERWATER ROBOT HELPS SCIENTISTS SEARCH FOR GIANT SQUID
04-29-97
Giant squid hunters from MIT Sea Grant's Autonomous Underwater
Vehicles (AUV) Laboratory recently returned from a month-long
mission to search for the elusive animal in the depths of Kaikoura
Canyon, off the coast of New Zealand. Although they came back
empty-handed in regard to squid, the crew was happy with the
performance of their research vehicle, the Odyssey IIB, which was
outfitted for the mission with a National Geographic video camera
designed for capturing deep sea animals on film. "The vehicle did
what is was supposed to do," said James Bellingham, MIT Sea
Grant AUV Laboratory's Principal Research Engineer. "We learned
a lot about how to run biological experiments and we learned a lot
about how to search for squid. Our primary mission was to
characterize the ecology and underwater habitat of Kaikoura
Canyon. We knew the odds weren't great for seeing squid." The
Odyssey was chosen for the mission because of its small size, its
ease in working in deep water systems, and the relative economy
of its operation in comparison to other deep-rated systems,
Bellingham said. The mission was one in a planned series led by
Clyde Roper, a squid expert at the Smithsonian Institution's
Museum of Natural History. Next month, the crew begins field work
to prepare for the Odyssey's deployment in the Labrador Sea in
early 1998. The team will test the feasibility of docking the AUV to
a mooring in the open ocean which would make it capable of
providing an unmanned presence in remote regions of the world.
CONTACT: Andrea Cohen, MIT Sea Grant Communications, (O)
617-253-3461; E-Mail: alcohen@mit.edu
http://www.seagrantnews.org/news/tips/tip_apr97.html#squid
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Response 5 of 36: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Dec 27, 2001 (21:32) * 3 lines
For your *Sightings* file (I'm still looking for the recent article about the squid):
http://users.ntplx.net/~astalvey/touchinghearts/science.htm#The Stronsay Beast
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Response 6 of 36: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Dec 27, 2001 (22:27) * 5 lines
FOUND IT!!!
http://www.nature.com/nsu/011227/011227-3.html
From a Very reliable science source.
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Response 7 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Fri, Dec 28, 2001 (21:46) * 3 lines
these are sitings of living creatures, that one site is bringing out the dead. but the mammoth article was very interesting. imagine a mastadon running around in the 1800's! wouldn't that make you wonder about other dinosaurs?
the squid article was good too. very interesting!
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Response 8 of 36: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Dec 28, 2001 (23:30) * 6 lines
I'm really skeptical (too much of a scientist?) to take some of these sightings with much credibility! However, I try to keep an open mind. Closed minds learn nothing!
yes, I know...
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Response 9 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Dec 29, 2001 (12:52) * 1 lines
ooooooooo, i LOVE them!!!!!! *HUGS*
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Response 10 of 36: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jan 8, 2002 (19:20) * 35 lines
Me too. You'sd be amazed how John and I managed to do three of them, then insert the letters (his genius, my insertion in the config files.) Get well soon, John... I miss you terribly... *hugs* (He'll never see this!)
I did not know where to put the squid trivia, so here it goes!
HOW DOES A GIANT SQUID EAT?
A giant squid has two long tentacles that make up much of
the total length of the animal. Each tentacle terminates with
a flattened club that has several hundred suckers on one side.
The tentacles grab prey and transfer it to the eight arms
where the squid’s muscular, beak-like mouth bites out chunks
to swallow. The food then travels down the esophagus, which
runs through the squid’s brain.
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT NASA IS KEEPING SECRETS ABOUT ALIEN LIFE?
36 percent of Americans.
HOW OLD IS THE SPECIES OF FISH KNOWN AS THE COLELACANTH?
This ancient creature existed 350 million years ago. Scien-
tists had believed that the fish became extinct 60 million
years ago, until a living specimen was caught in the Indian
Ocean of Southern Afica in 1938.
HOW LARGE WAS THE LARGEST SQUID EVER CAUGHT?
The largest giant squid ever measured was discovered at Timble
Tickle Bay, Newfoundland, on November 2, 1878. Three fisherman
were working not far off shore when they noticed a mass float-
ing on the ocean they took to be wreckage. They investigated
and found a giant squid had run aground. Using their anchor as
a grappling hook they snagged the still-living body and made
it fast to a tree. When the tide went out the creature was
left high and dry. When the animal died, the fishermen measured
it and then chopped it up for dog meat. The body of the squid
was twenty feet from tail to beak. The longer tentacles measured
thirty five feet and were tipped with four inch suckers. It
weighed two tons.
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Response 11 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Jan 8, 2002 (19:39) * 3 lines
that just adds more fuel to the interest in finding one! 4-inch suckers? that sounds like the size of those used to transport glass window panes! imagine that clamping onto you, no, don't!!
i saw something about big squid on discovery, they have beaks! it was so gross to look at but interesting too.
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Response 12 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Jan 8, 2002 (19:39) * 1 lines
(or maybe it was an octopus?)
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Response 13 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Jan 8, 2002 (20:54) * 5 lines
got a website for giant squid:
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/squid.html
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Response 14 of 36: GeoCritter (MarciaH) * Tue, Jan 8, 2002 (21:35) * 3 lines
Cuttlefish have cuttlebones. All cephalopods have beaks. That's the way they chew! I can put my fossil ammonites there, too!!!
Great links, Wolfie!
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Response 15 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Jan 8, 2002 (21:37) * 3 lines
we're going to continue the discussion on giant squids in the new squid topic of springark......
glad you liked the links!
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Response 16 of 36: Maggie (sociolingo) * Mon, Jan 14, 2002 (09:44) * 20 lines
I think this belongs in here Wolfie.
Snowy owl makes stop in Indianapolis
(http://www.indystar.com/article.php?snowy11.html)
Rare Arctic birds usually don't venture this far south; it may have been searching for extra sources of food.
By George McLaren
george.mclaren@indystar.com
January 11, 2002
A rare snowy owl -- like an escapee from Hogwarts -- showed up Thursday in the parking lot of an industrial company Downtown. "It was so beautiful you just had to love that. It was such a beautiful sight. It was awesome," said Joan Mason, who works in the employment office of the Diamond Chain Co., 402 Kentucky Ave. While employees gawked at the strikingly white owl, Mason grabbed a camera and snapped a few photos. Snowy owls, which are about 2 feet tall and have yellow eyes, spend summers in the Arctic. Some stay there year-round and others migrate south to Canada or the northern Midwest. "They are reported in Indiana virtually every winter, but the only reliable places would be right along the lakeshore from Michigan City to the west, all the way to the Gary area," said John B. Dunning Jr., a Purdue University professor and bird book author. The owls are seldom seen elsewhere around the state. But when the population of lemmings -- the owl's main prey species -- crashes, the predators head south to find o
her food sources. Several snowy owls have been seen in Indiana, including at least four in the area of Tippecanoe, White and Boone counties, Dunning said. One owl hunted for three weeks along U.S. 52 south of Lafayette before being struck and killed by a car a few weeks ago. Dunning said the birds, being from the Far North, lack the normal wariness of urban dangers such as traffic. "They are much more trusting and naive about things like cars than a great horned owl would be," he said. Dunning said there was no way to predict what the owl might do next. Some recent sightings have been for a day or two, and other snowy owls have stayed put for weeks. The owl already has learned one hazard of living in the heart of the city -- but it wasn't danger from humans. The two peregrine falcons that nest Downtown discovered the intruder on their territory. First one, then the other, showed up to harass the owl. "It was diving at it and screeching at it," said Rachel Morris, another Diamond Chain office employee. "The
alcon would go straight up and right back down on it. Finally, the owl flew away." It was last seen heading north toward Hogwarts, er, IUPUI.
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Response 17 of 36: GeoCritter (MarciaH) * Mon, Jan 14, 2002 (16:46) * 3 lines
I'd love to see a snowy owl. I like owls of any sort, actually.
Hi Maggie! *Hugs*
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Response 18 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Jan 14, 2002 (19:26) * 1 lines
thanks maggie, i like owls too. they're creepy to sneak up on though (yeah, they know we're there and allow us to look at them).
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Response 19 of 36: Maggie (sociolingo) * Tue, Jan 15, 2002 (15:56) * 1 lines
I hear them a lot in woods near us, but rarely see them. Hi everyone .. trying to get my life back together ... but I am around ...
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Response 20 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Jan 15, 2002 (19:06) * 1 lines
glad to hear it!
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Response 21 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Apr 1, 2002 (16:45) * 5 lines
in the science file section of the L.A. Times:
"Scientists have identified what they believe is the largest octopus ever seen, a 13-foot-long, 165-pound giant hauled from the depths near New Zealand's Chatham Islands. The specimen, caught in a trawler's net, was badly damaged, but it was clearly a massive animal, said National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research marine biologist Steve O'Shea. He had provisionally identified the specimen, caught at a depth of more than 3000 feet, as Haliphron atlanticus, a bright red, jelly-like species of octopus not previously found in the South Pacific."
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Response 22 of 36: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Apr 2, 2002 (08:02) * 1 lines
I didn't know they fished at such great depths. Wonder if this needs to be curtailed or regulated if these species are being damaged.
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Response 23 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Apr 2, 2002 (11:02) * 1 lines
i wanna know how'd they know he was caught that deep or that he was caught at all until they brought the net in.
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Response 24 of 36: S B Robinson (SBRobinson) * Tue, Apr 2, 2002 (11:40) * 2 lines
caught at a depth of more than 3000 feet,
what are they fishing for that deep?
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Response 25 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Apr 2, 2002 (12:56) * 1 lines
really!! am gonna go on the web and see if they have any updates to this "fish tale" *grin*
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Response 26 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Apr 2, 2002 (12:59) * 3 lines
here's a link to the story on reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID=756492
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Response 27 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Apr 2, 2002 (13:00) * 1 lines
it reconfirms the 3000 foot depth (unless they did their math wrong)
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Response 28 of 36: Julie (cascadeclimber) * Wed, Jul 17, 2002 (19:50) * 1 lines
Does anyone know what kind of a call a peacock makes? When I was in the Cascades in May we heard this very weird cry in the woods near Mt. St. Helens. Sean said it was a peacock but I have heard peacocks before and they dont sound like that. We joked around saying it was The Creature of the Cascades! Lol. But now I am wondering what that sound was that cried out many times during the middle of the night and early morning. It made chills run up my spine.
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Response 29 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Jul 18, 2002 (22:27) * 1 lines
it's like a cat's call but loud and stretched out and the "m" is missing.
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Response 30 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Jul 22, 2002 (19:56) * 1 lines
new giant squid found: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/07/22/australia.squid/index.html
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Response 31 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Wed, Jul 9, 2003 (19:32) * 22 lines
In Reuters Oddly Enough Archives
Giant Sea Creature Baffles Scientists
Wed July 2, 2003 08:18 AM ET
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Chilean scientists were baffled on Tuesday by a huge, gelatinous sea creature found washed up on the southern Pacific coast and were seeking international help identifying the mystery specimen.
The dead creature was mistaken for a beached whale when first reported about a week ago, but experts who went to see it said the 40-foot-long (12-meter) mass of decomposing lumpy gray flesh apparently was an invertebrate.
"We'd never before seen such a strange specimen, We don't know if it might be a giant squid that is missing some of its parts or maybe it's a new species," said Elsa Cabrera, a marine biologist and director of the Center for Cetacean Conservation in Santiago.
Photographs showed a round leathery substance like a mammoth jelly fish, about as long as a school bus.
Giant squid live at a depth of 9,500 feet and only rise to the surface when they die. Specimens have been known to be as long as 60 feet.
There was speculation that the mass might be a whale skin, but Cabrera said it was too big and did not have the right texture or smell.
Cabrera said she was contacting Chilean and international organizations in the hope that they could help shed some light on the find.
The Chilean Navy first spotted the mystery specimen along with another large mass, but the other dead animal turned out to be a dead humpback whale.
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Response 32 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Wed, Oct 27, 2004 (19:28) * 1 lines
we have our very own mysterious animal---it's been nicknamed the chocabrua (or something like that). am trying to find the article so i can point y'all to it. the latest siting was in elmendorf texas. the thing was under someone's house and the dogs started barking but refused to go after it. the owner shot the thing and took pictures of it.
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Response 33 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Wed, Oct 27, 2004 (19:39) * 1 lines
Chupacabra
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Response 34 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Jan 20, 2005 (19:49) * 5 lines
some big squids washed up on the shores of Southern California:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/01/20/jumbo.squid.ap/index.html
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Response 35 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Fri, Jul 22, 2005 (19:07) * 20 lines
cheryl posted this in geo:
Beast sighting investigated
POLICE have been called out to investigate another sighting of the Beast of Bexley.
Officers from Bexleyheath police station went to Upton Road, Bexleyheath, after a teenager reported seeing the giant black cat in undergrowth by Bexleyheath Golf Club.
Tom Shinners, 15, of Farnham Road, Welling, was on his way home from a friend's house at around 10.30pm on July 12 when he saw the cat.
He told News Shopper: "I heard a rustling in the bushes as I was walking past and as I looked through the metal fence, I saw this giant black cat trotting across the grass.
"I only saw it for a few seconds before it disappeared again into the undergrowth."
He added: "I didn't know what to think, so I rang the police."
A spokesman for Bexleyheath police confirmed officers did visit the scene but found nothing.
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/display.var.615128.0.beast_sighting_investigated.php
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Response 36 of 36: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Wed, Sep 28, 2005 (13:42) * 7 lines
giant squid FOUND--pictures to go with it (this guy's alive too):
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005
-09-28T113449Z_01_DIT783884_RTRUKOC_0_US-SQUID.xml
(cut and paste the entire alphabet soup link because the dash after 2005 separates it out).
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