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A Very Big Bug Once Ruled the Seas

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Fossils Show Big Bug Ruled the Seas 460 Million Years Ago - US News

A Very Big Bug Once Ruled the Seas

A real big bug problem: Iowa fossils show giant sea scorpion was dominant predator of its time.

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Whoa! That's wiggy. Also, I lol'd at "a weird water bug as big as Tom Cruise."
 

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I would like to clone that Jurassic Park style and release it in the oceans worldwide as part of a dastardly villainous plot.
 

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I would like to clone that Jurassic Park style and release it in the oceans worldwide as part of a dastardly villainous plot.

It could be cloned for food, I imagine. Although your Bond villain plot would be more entertaining.
 

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Imagine one day, going to Red Lobster and picking one of these guys out of the tank. Dare to dream!
 

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I think they'd need a large swimming pool sized tank to keep these "lobsters" in.

I can imagine people ordering all sorts of prehistoric shit.

"I'll have the trilobyte stegosaur surf 'n' turf"

(Yes, I realize these animals are from completely different eras)
 

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I think they'd need a large swimming pool sized tank to keep these "lobsters" in.

I can imagine people ordering all sorts of prehistoric shit.

"I'll have the trilobyte stegosaur surf 'n' turf"

(Yes, I realize these animals are from completely different eras)

I wonder if trilobite caviar would ever catch on as a sort of a dish for sophisticates.
 

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Then why aren't we eating them? We could make a fortune.

Bug of the Sea
 

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Apparently when they're caught in traps, other terrifying deep sea creatures scavenge them before they can be retrieved.
 

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There's actually a pattern of sea creatures at the bottom of the ocean generally being much larger. It's called Deep-sea gigantism. My favorite example of this would be the giant and colossal squids. Live specimens haven't actually been spotted in modern times until relatively recently; it's thought that they used to surface much more frequently, therefore making the sea monsters of yore more a matter of fact than fiction.
 

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There's actually a pattern of sea creatures at the bottom of the ocean generally being much larger. It's called Deep-sea gigantism. My favorite example of this would be the giant and colossal squids. Live specimens haven't actually been spotted in modern times until relatively recently; it's thought that they used to surface much more frequently, therefore making the sea monsters of yore more a matter of fact than fiction.

If they used to surface in the past more often I wonder if they were confused to being "the Kraken" of the sea by ancient Pirates, and going farther back, Vikings.

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