{"id":10489,"date":"2010-04-01T07:54:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T13:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=10489"},"modified":"2010-04-01T07:54:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T13:54:46","slug":"man-asks-reddit-to-define-horrible-sea-monster-learns-its-a-giant-isopod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/man-asks-reddit-to-define-horrible-sea-monster-learns-its-a-giant-isopod\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Asks Reddit to Define Horrible Sea Monster, Learns its a Giant Isopod"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/03\/30\/terrifying-sea-critter-from-oceans-depths\/?test=faces\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Giant-Isopod-2_doomsday_604x341.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" Bathynomus giganteus\" width=\"505\" height=\"284\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Giant-Isopod-2_doomsday_604x341.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Giant-Isopod-2_doomsday_604x341-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The post reads, &#8220;I work for a Sub-sea Survey Company, recently this beast came up attached to one of our ROVs. It measures a wee bit over 2.5 feet head to tail, and we expect it latched onto the ROV at roughly 8,500 feet depth. Unfortunately, the e-mail that these pictures were attached to came from a contractor, and the ship he was operating from (and therefore location) is unknown, so I can&#8217;t tell you what part of the Earth this beast was living.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/03\/30\/terrifying-sea-critter-from-oceans-depths\/?test=faces\" class=\"external external_icon\">The pictures reveal the creature to be a giant isopod, a large crustacean that dwells in deep Atlantic and Pacific waters<\/a>. This particular creature is a <em>Bathynomus giganteus<\/em>, a deep-sea scavenger that feeds on dead whales, fish and squid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And they say it&#8217;s safe to go into the water.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/slantsmcgee\/status\/11419161388\" class=\"external external_icon\">@slantsmcgee<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post reads, &#8220;I work for a Sub-sea Survey Company, recently this beast came up attached to one of our ROVs. It measures a wee bit over 2.5 feet head to tail, and we expect it latched onto the ROV at roughly 8,500 feet depth. Unfortunately, the e-mail that these pictures were attached to came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9],"tags":[2124,1702,2122,2123,510,2125,464,463],"class_list":["post-10489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-science","tag-bathynomus-giganteus","tag-cthulhu","tag-future-kaiju","tag-lovecraftian-horror","tag-old-school-creepy","tag-phnglui-mglwnafh-cthulhu-rlyeh-wgahnagl-fhtagn","tag-possible-left-over-old-one","tag-terror-from-the-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10493,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489\/revisions\/10493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}