http://www.weirdseamonsters.com Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:18:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The football fish is famous as being the first deep-sea angler fish. The first sighting of this fish was caught in Greenland in 1883. This one was measured at 22-inches long - the biggest one found to date. Since no females of this species have ever been found bearing parasitic ... http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/the-football-fish/   The Oarfish is a very largely elongated fish. There have been cases (as seen in the above picture) of extremely long Oarfish, but for the most part they are about a few meters long. They are a family of the Lampriform fish. http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/oarfish/ THE CRINOID - BELIZE The Crinoid is an ancient creature that stems from the echinoderm family and is a relative of the starfish. This peculiar looking creature appear very plant-like and resembles an aquatic fern. The Crinoid coils its legs very gracefully, as seen in the picture above, and uses its ... http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/a-strange-starfish/  CHIMAERA FISH This unusual looking fish is called the chimaera. It is a cartilaginous fish, which mean it is composed entirely of cartilage! It uses its long snout to scan the electrical impulses of its prey on the bottom of the sea floor. http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/the-fish-detector/ A new frog species was found in Indonesia recently and has researchers baffled at the fact that the frog does not have any lungs whatsoever. This rare species of frog actually breathes through its skin. Researches are now able to understand more about animal genetics and structure. http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/new-discovery-lungless-frog/  The Monster This 50-foot dinosaur was excavated last summer on Norway's Arctic island. The Monster likely represents the biggest species of pliosaur known to science, said Jørn Hurum, of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway, who led the dig team—and who called the reptile "the T. rex of the ocean." Pilosaurs ... http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/water-t-rex-found-in-arctic/ The Hexapus Caretakers at a British aquarium recently discovered that one of its newest residents, an octopus named Henry, had six legs instead of the usual eight. Apparently the caretakers have researched everywhere to see if there really is such thing, but so far, the only documented six-legged octopus is this ... http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/the-six-legged-octopus/ Water Tunicates Believe it or not, these things that look like glass tulips are actually animals. Found in the murky waters of Antarctica, these curious animals are called tunicates. The plankton-eating tunicates grow up to 3.2 feet (1 meter) long, and filter food by pumping it through an internal mesh structure. The ... http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/glass-tulip-worms/ Incredible Fish! This incredible fish was found in the Alaskan waters and is believed to be one of the oldest fish ever found in the waters. Commercial fishers in the Bering Sea hauled in the female shortraker rockfish seen above, which scientists say was between 90 and 115 years old, in ... http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/century-old-fish-found-in-alaska/ A Cute Amphibian The Mexican axolotl salamander is a distinct amphibian since it retains its larval features all through adulthood. This condition is called neoteny, which means it keeps its tadpole-like dorsal fin that runs almost the length of its body, and its feathery external gills, which protrude from the back ... http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/the-maxican-axolotl/