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Promachoteuthis Sulcus, a Bizarre Creature Straight Out of Your Nightmares
Meet Promachoteuthis sulcus, a bizarre creature straight out of your nightmares. As you can see, this thing looks like it has freakishly human looking teeth. They're actually just flaps of skin, but they're still pretty unnerving! It's a species of promachoteuthid squid and only one specimen has been found to date. It was captured in the Southern Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 2,000m in 2007.  It is distinguished from related taxa on the basis of several morphological features: nuchal fusion between the head and mantle, much larger size of arm suckers compared to club suckers, greater width of tentacle base than arm base, a recessed club base, and the presence of an aboral tentacle groove.   |
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02-08-2013, 02:49 PM
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Re: Promachoteuthis Sulcus, a Bizarre Creature Straight Out of Your Nightmares
  That first pic made me think of this:
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02-10-2013, 11:07 PM
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Re: Promachoteuthis Sulcus, a Bizarre Creature Straight Out of Your Nightmares
 All it needs is some derpy eyes and you've got a hit tv show. |
