A Very Big Bug Once Ruled the Seas

[Olm the Water King]

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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[Ivy]

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

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

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

 

[Also]

I remember reading about this on Listverse.

Nice pants.

10 More Little Known Prehistoric Monsters

10 Prehistoric Bugs That Could Seriously Mess You Up

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

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.

 

[Ivy]

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

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

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

That would be a hell of a meal.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

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)

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

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.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

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

 

[BadOctopus]

Giant bugs still rule the bottom of the sea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

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

Bug of the Sea

 

[Ivy]

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

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

https://leastingredient.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/giant-isopod-recipes/

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https://leastingredient.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/isopod-butter-cookies/

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

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.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Whales have surfaced with massive scars and wounds^^

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Whales have surfaced with massive scars and wounds^^

Yes, and carcasses of the animals themselves have washed up on the beach.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

It's Megalodon!

But probably not.

 

[evilrubberduckie]

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.

curiouser and curiouser

 

[BadOctopus]

It's Megalodon!

But probably not.

I wish!