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This is a link post Giant underwater thingy I made this!
Can any of you clever people help me please?
I want to know what this is:



I have tried a Chemist, a Biologist, a Zoologist and a physicist (because that's what I have here) as well as numerous computer scientists.
So now I try the internets!

I think it's a giant ant's cock.

[EDIT: I seem to have an answer (see replies) many thanks all].
 (I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Looks like my cock.

(I helped save b3ta! @RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:30, Reply)
This is a normal post Yours is hairier.

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Propps, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Just how you like it.

(I helped save b3ta! @RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Is it a horseshoe crab
skeleton thing? How big is it?
 (I helped save b3ta! krang, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Yep, it's a horseshoe crab
I think
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab
 (I helped save b3ta! Dave the Mighty, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:38, Reply)
This is a normal post No, I have got it.
(Thank you to Pops for this link) www.glaucus.org.uk/spider.htm

I think we have a winner. The girls will be very pleased as they have a (still spiny) spider crab shell which is from a specimen we ate, and will be able to compare.
 (I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:42, Reply)
This is a normal post So it is!
That's awesome that is; I am most jealous
 (I helped save b3ta! Dave the Mighty, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:47, Reply)
This is a normal post
It's the flap remains,
so it's the underside, which means that the actual crab must have been mahussive.
 (I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:47, Reply)
This is a normal post not that much bigger....
the exco-skeleton is alive like our skin and changes colour to suit enviroment, now its dead its just whiteish...
the meat was on the inside..
 (I helped save b3ta! war3n3xt < I'm with stupid, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 13:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh no, it's just a small section of the underside of the female:
www.tnaqua.org/Newsroom/HighRes/SpiderCrab_popup.jpg

The flap at the bottom of that image.
 (I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 19:24, Reply)
This is a normal post There are pictures (through the link)
with rulers, it is bigger than an ant, but smaller than my bathroom.
 (I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:42, Reply)
This is a normal post Looks like a Sea Louse

(I helped save b3ta! Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:33, Reply)
This is a normal post Hahahahahaa
I know excatly what this is...
what part did you make then?
 (I helped save b3ta! war3n3xt < I'm with stupid, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:33, Reply)
This is a normal post I am utterly befuddled as to what you think it is.
I made 'the photographs' and 'the set of photographs'.
 (I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:43, Reply)
This is a normal post its the amazing interior of a spider crab!
i was all teh giggles at the "i made this" tagged to a photo..
 (I helped save b3ta! war3n3xt < I'm with stupid, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:59, Reply)
This is a normal post looks a bit like a horseshoe crab
cant say for certain though
 (Absynth&Cheese Have you tasted my Jesus, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:35, Reply)
This is a normal post nice beasty

(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 13:12, Reply)
This is a normal post Seems to have too many segents in the carapace.
To be a horseshoe crab (they tend to have 1 large fontal segement and then a second shorter one at the back). I think it's more likely to be one of the Bathynomus species (a sea dwelling woodlouse) as the carapace and legs fit and they can grow up 2ft long. Which is an alltogether more awsome find!

[/Marine Biologist]

Edit: After spotting one of the replies above, it's most probably a spider crab underside.
 (Mr Torture Oh no! Not the BEEEEEEEEEEES!, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 18:30, Reply)