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Old 01-24-2007, 06:24 PM   #1
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this thing is so cool lookin......
i had to make sure everyone saw this sucka....

holy quacamole ....!!





WOW!!!

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Old 01-24-2007, 07:16 PM   #2
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yikes

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Old 01-24-2007, 07:54 PM   #3
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Did you watch the video of it 'swimming?' The thing did not look in good shape at all.

Lookin for my big'un!
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Old 01-24-2007, 08:21 PM   #4
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Arrow yeah

kinda looks like its ready to croak....... weird ghostly look to it
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Old 01-24-2007, 09:06 PM   #5
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Did you watch the video of it 'swimming?' The thing did not look in good shape at all.
I heard on the news they normally live in 4000+ ft, what it was doing in close is a good question.

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Old 01-24-2007, 11:34 PM   #6
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Did you watch the video of it 'swimming?' The thing did not look in good shape at all.
died like 4 hours after being transfered to a seawater tank.
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Old 01-25-2007, 08:09 AM   #7
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Arrow hmmm

no kidden.... no wonder it looked like it was ready to croak...

it was on it's death swim.....
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Old 01-25-2007, 08:14 AM   #8
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I saw it this morning on the 6:00 news, too bad it didnt make it, awesome looking creature...
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Old 01-25-2007, 08:23 AM   #9
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I looked at the clip of that thing swimming on necn, I wasn't sure if it was real. Pretty neat to see the unknown still swimming around.

Now if you could live line that baby for some giants.
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Like the Ceolocanth that thing is a living fossil thought to have been extinct for a long time ,this critter showed and got filmed for the first time live

Why even try.........
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Old 01-25-2007, 03:31 PM   #11
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i saw it on the news and i only saw the head and i thought it was just a cuda

i need fish!
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Old 01-25-2007, 04:27 PM   #12
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wow, thing is unreal. the video of it swimming makes it look huge, but then they show it next to a man and it half the size of the guy.
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