Deep Sea Japanese Bottom Feeders - Time Lapse Supreme!
This is how you feed a lot of seafood. With other seafood. And then speed it up. On TV. In Japan.
NOTE: Those lice-looking things may just in fact be the creepiest underwater thing ever.
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BIG ASS CRAB! BIG ASS CRAB!!! COOL!
February 17th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
yeah, the footage is from BBC’s “planet earth’ tv series..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/planetearth/prog_summary.shtml#11
February 18th, 2007 at 6:54 am
Those “lice” things are actually called isopods, also known as “tongue eaters.” How creepy is that? They actually climb inside the mouths of fish, eat away the tongue, and then live in the mouth of the now-tongueless fish until the victim dies.
February 18th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Friggin tongue eaters… FRICK!!!
February 18th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
that ‘lice’ thing looks like a gigantic sow bug…and apparently is closely related to them: http://insected.arizona.edu/isoinfo.htm
http://images.google.com/images?q=sow bug&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&sa=N&tab=wi
Sow bugs are normally about a centimeter long and live under rotting pieces of wood…not quite like the monster in the video…
February 18th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Flip it over and attack it’s weak spot for massive damage.
February 19th, 2007 at 5:13 am
The “lice thing” is ダイオウグソクムシ, or Bathynomus giganteus. It is not the tongue eating thing, which is a different isopod from a different Family (and suborder), cymothoa exigua.
I actually just finished a translation job about these things, they have been on the news and variety shows in Japan quite a bit lately.
February 19th, 2007 at 7:02 am
Hi Sam! Photos i send on e-mail.
Green
April 25th, 2007 at 10:42 am