I'd be only moderately surprised if it's a new species. And the surprise doesn't come from the fact that I'd think humans would have discovered it earlier, but rather that one would wash up shore.

Science has taught us more about the entire universe than our own oceans. Some depths are impossible to reach, even with a machine using today's technology. It's quite possible that undiscovered creatures dwell in the depths. That's what's tricky though... if something lived that far under the sea, how would it ever surface?

But, that'd be a reason why we've only seen two.


P.S. :lol: "Octopus Giganteus", talk about original naming.

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Unfortunately, it looks as it isn't a giant octopus:( It's just some damn leftover dead whale.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._creature_dc_1

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:( Weird way of dying BTW... :eyes:
"When a sperm whale dies at sea, it rots until it becomes a "skeleton suspended in a semi-liquid mass within a bag of skin and blubber," the scientists said. Eventually, the skin tears and the bones sinks while the skin and blubber float."

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EWWWWWWWWWWWW...

I would like to see that skeleton in a liquid mass thing... That might be interesting...


*shrugs and walks away*

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Yeah, well I'd like to see a one of a kind Octopus Giganteus.

That's just a big octupus. Nothing special. Not as much as a skeleton floating in a smei-liquid mass of rotted flesh and blubber in any case.

.....

*shrugs and walks away*

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Well, since then, a farm here in California has become the victim of crop circles. People from all around the U.S. are flocking to see it and absorb it's left behind energy which some claim has healing powers.