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].
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:29,
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Looks like my cock.
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:30,
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Just how you like it.
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:32,
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Yep, it's a horseshoe crab
I think
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab
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Dave the Mighty, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:38,
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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.
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:42,
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So it is!
That's awesome that is; I am most jealous
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Dave the Mighty, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:47,
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It's the flap remains,
so it's the underside, which means that the actual crab must have been mahussive.
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:47,
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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..
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war3n3xt < I'm with stupid, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 13:07,
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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.
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 19:24,
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There are pictures (through the link)
with rulers, it is bigger than an ant, but smaller than my bathroom.
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:42,
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Hahahahahaa
I know excatly what this is...
what part did you make then?
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war3n3xt < I'm with stupid, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:33,
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I am utterly befuddled as to what you think it is.
I made 'the photographs' and 'the set of photographs'.
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:43,
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its the amazing interior of a spider crab!
i was all teh giggles at the "i made this" tagged to a photo..
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war3n3xt < I'm with stupid, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:59,
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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.
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