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    Posted: 05-Sep-2007 at 04:02
BTW I got this pic in wikimedia..What is it and can it be trusted?
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Originally posted by Knights

They truly are colossal aren't they! However, I've always thought one of the most mysterious and evil looking of the creatures of the deep was "Vampyroteuthis infernalis". Literally, the "Vampire Squid from hell".

http://www.tolweb.org/Vampyroteuthis_infernalis




Thank god they don't get very big...No one would ever want to swim in salt water deeper than their thigh.

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The picture posted by Knights looks like a massive underwater venus flytrap!
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The vampire squid does that as a sort of protective measure...It brings its arms and the flesh between them up over it's "head".

Edited by TheARRGH - 05-Sep-2007 at 19:30
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I thought it might have closed the hooked arms around its prey and then start squashing it like a an orange to suck up the juice! 

Edited by elenos - 05-Sep-2007 at 23:23
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It's actually not very big-in size, it's measured in centimeters, I think. But it certainly is one of the more devilish denizens of the deep.
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Be careful fellows, the Blue Whale is the greatest only of the animals, but isn't the largest living thing.
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All right, I'll bite, what is the largest living thing, a tree? 
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That would be the Giant Sequoia tree wouldn't it? One in particular comes to mind - General Sherman.
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Actually, it depends how you classify things. Generally, the Giant Sequoia would be the largest. However, there is a type of tree called the Aspen (sp?) which forms many genetically identical "trees" which are interconnected by subterranean root system. It may be more of a superorganism though.
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There's an interesting thought, a gigantic underground life form. In "Dune" they had giant earth worms as the largest living thing!
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There's also the fact that there is a fungus which spreads in an underground network over literally a few miles. Admittedly, it it unclear at this point whether it qualifies as a superorganism, but several miles of fungus-threads is pretty impressive.
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I had both question in mind:
 
1. The super fungus, the most greatest in USA wich expand along kilometres underground. Time ago i had many links with info about this but now i can't find it.
2. Singles giant trees as Sequoya and rainforest giants, without any argument against they.
 
3. And now Knights say the case of the Aspen's trees, but this case as the fungus can be superorganism i don't know.
 
So the only that i have clear is that by this time without doubt the giant trees are the champions of the live, until we solve the question of the Fungus and the Aspen tree.
 
Dates of the sequoia "General Sherman":
 
-Tall: 83,79 metres
-Volume: 1486 m3
-Weigh: 2100 tons !!!


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Largest marine creature:

CORAL.

Ha Ha. I cheated.
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Coral...Superorganism? Cheater!

Back to the original topic of "Largest marine creature ever", are we all in agreeance that it is the blue whale? Or are we going to get tricky and include superorganisms, rhizome-connected organisms.etc?

How about we arrange a nice list of:
1. Largest Marine Mammal
2. Largest Marine Fish
3. Largest Marine Reptile/Amphibian
4. Largest Marine Plant
5. Largest Marine Arthropod
6. Largest Marine Mollusc/Cephalopod
Others?

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These boys were something: Deinosuchus
 
Sarcosuchus Imperator
 
 
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largest marine cephalopod:

COLOSSAL SQUID!!

....that we KNOW of...hehehehehe...
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The largest living creature is a plant-
 

Scientists have discovered a monster of the deep off the southern coast of Ibiza. Bathers and boaters shouldn't worry though, as the monster is neither a giant man-eating crocodile nor a boat-eating octopus the size of Leeds. It is in fact a plant, Posidonia Oceanica, which covers the seabed all round the island.

The boffins have found a strand of Posidonia which measures an incredible 8 kilometres and has been growing for at least 100,000 years. This makes it the biggest and oldest living organism in the world today.
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DEAR LORD.

THE PLANT IS COMING!!
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1. Largest Marine Mammal = Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus
2. Largest Marine Fish = Whale Shark Rhincodon typus
3. Largest Marine Reptile/Amphibian = Saltwater Crocodile Crocdylus porosus (largest extant)
4. Largest Marine Plant = Posidonia oceanica
5. Largest Marine Arthropod = Arthropleura and Pterygotus (both extinct) Largest extant is the Japanese Spider Crab
6. Largest Marine Mollusc/Cephalopod = Colossal Squid Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni

Thanks for the pictures Tyranos! They are massive aren't they!

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