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Anonymous
sup /an/

what are those?

the beasts, not the doritos, mind you.
>> St. Benthic the Harlot !rQn/5gSPHA
isopods.
>> Ivan the liar
no actually they are the rare giant rectangular nine hundred legged sea turtles.

You see they come in now and then when the tide washes them up or when they are in dire need of calcium, which just happens to be present in cheese, which just happens to be present in doritos.

Also, do not approach them because they can fly, and they bite.
very hard.
>> Anonymous
>>43122
hehe
>> Anonymous
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>>43119
please don't say those things are real?! fucking disgusting.. this is really the horriblest thing i've ever seen on the intrawebs.. and i've been on 4chan long.. i always tought those pics are fake or something, but now i'm really fucking scared.. fuck! KILL THEM WITH FIRE!
>> Anonymous
>>43119
Isopod. From the deepsea. It eats souls.
>> Anonymous
>>43119
I have hundreds of those living in the compost container, except finger-tip sized. Vikings used to eat them as snacks.
>> Anonymous
>>43165
yeah but is there really so big ones? i can't habeeb it..
>> Anonymous
>>43189

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod
>> Anonymous
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it crawls into your mouth when you sleep and then eats all the food you try to eat
>> Anonymous
>>43200
because you'd never notice that
>> Anonymous
maybe it uses some form of numbing chemical like other parasites, you don't notice a mosquito either until it's too late
>> Anonymous
IZ DAT SUM KABUTO?

/r/ KABUTOPS.
>> Anonymous
the sushi is fighting back!
>> Architeuthis !n8DM/3U.xE
>>43200
Parasitic isopods are not the same as the giant isopods. And the parasite ones just take the place of your tongue, and you can even use them as your tongue would normally be used.

If you are a fish, of course. They tend to not take over human tongues.
>> Anonymous
Doritocytic Isopods!
>> Anonymous
they're like big potato bugs.
>> Anonymous
Reanimated lobster tails!
>> Gingitsune
I has a dorito? Also are they alive in this pic? I thought since they were deep sea critters if you brought them up on land they'd not fair so well
>> Anonymous
>>43266
of course they're alive! it's completely reasonable to believe someone fished up giant isopods and was able to deliver them to their living room floor to eat a bag of doritos without killing them.
>> Krunchy Kaine
I want a couple..
>> Monkey
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not a giant isopod, but an isopod none-the-less. it lives on giant kelp and this one was about an inch and a half long. nice, huh?
>> Anonymous
>>43266
Hmm, it's not like it'd be impossible to do this with them alive. I mean, you can take most crustaceans out of the water for a minute or two and they'll be alright, they just can't stay out for extended periods. (Well, I know this with crabs at least.) It could be that someone had them in a tank, and took them out and put them next to the doritos. You can see that one of them is actually wet. They still could have been posed though.

On a different note, anyone know if there's an easy way to get one as a pet?
>> St. Benthic the Harlot !rQn/5gSPHA
>>43382
Catch one, especially if it's in the mouth of a large fish (living as a parasyte), and keep it. No pet store is going to carry them, though. They're giant aquatic wood lice.
>> Anonymous
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Awww. No love for them? I think they're kind of cute. Nature's little tangent.

Anyway, they are indeed giant isopods, Bathynous giganteus. They live in the deep sea so I doubt you have to worry about them coming for your doritos anytime soon.
They're related to pill bugs.

<--A pill bug. =O
>> Anonymous
>>43207

would I still be able to talk with an isopod-tongue???
>> Anonymous
>>43382

aren't they deep sea creatures that would explode when brought to the surface?
>> Anonymous
>>43429

Because of course all of them in the pictures have exploded beyond recognition
>> Anonymous
>>43429
I'm not sure how deeply they live. It is possible to depressurize them as you bring them to the surface. . . it would take hours and more than likely kill the animal, but it wouldn't necessarily a-splode.

The hard exoskeleton might also prevent an a-splosion.

>>43428
No, I don't think you could. Not unless you trained it to move how and when you wanted it to.
>> Anonymous
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Giant isopods are important scavengers in the deep-sea benthic environment; they are found from the gloomy sublittoral zone at a depth of 170 m (550 ft) to the pitch darkness of the bathypelagic zone at 2,140 m (7,020 ft), where pressures are high and temperatures are very low (down to about 4°C). They are thought to prefer a muddy or clay substrate and lead solitary lives.
>> Anonymous
From wikipedia:

"Giant isopods are of no interest to commercial fisheries owing to the typical paucity of catches and because ensnared isopods are usually scavenged beyond marketability before they are recovered. The few specimens caught with baited traps are sometimes seen in public aquaria."

Since they can be seen in public aquariums, I assume it would be possible to keep one in a home aquarium with the proper care and equipment.
>> Anonymous
http://www.whozoo.org/Anlife2001/chelsy/clh_Bathynomus.htm at an aquarium.
>> Anonymous
Obviously they are Zerg larvae.
>> Anonymous
Whatever they are, they're cute. I want one.
>> Anonymous
>>43429

I don't think any deep sea fish actually explode when brought to the surface, though most of 'em would still end up ejecting most of their innards. Especially if they've got proper swim bladders.

These things are arthopods, though. I can totally see them being mostly indifferent to depressurization. Then again, I don't know how their respiratory system works.
>> Anonymous
The uniramous thoracic legs or pereiopods are arranged in seven pairs, the first of which are modified into maxillipeds to manipulate and bring food to the four sets of jaws. The abdomen has five segments called pleonites each with a pair of biramous pleopods; these are modified into natatory legs and rami, flat respiratory structures acting as gills. The isopods are a pale lilac in colour.

Much the same as other crustatceans, microciliatic gills.
>> Anonymous
Although generalist scavengers, these isopods are mostly carnivorous and feed on dead whales, fish, and squid; they may also be active predators of slow-moving echinoderms such as sea cucumbers, sponges, radiolarians, nematodes and other zoobenthos, and perhaps even live fish. They are known to attack trawl catches. As food is scarce in the deep ocean biome, giant isopods must make do with what fortune brings; they are adapted to long periods of famine and have been known to survive over eight weeks without food in the aquarium. When a significant source of food is encountered, giant isopods gorge themselves to the point of compromising their locomotive ability.
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>>43460

Because you're an ignorant, racist moron. Obviously.
>> Anonymous
BACKAWAY SLOWLY, THEY MIGHT FUCKING KILL YOU

AHH FUCK BALRLAHGARHLHAG
>> Anonymous
>>43442

>Isopod means similar footed. (iso-footed, pod-foot)

srsly
>> Anonymous
You most always get isopods on live rock for saltwater aquariums. I have a lot in my aquarium but they're only about the size of my pinky nail, they're a sort of night time cleanup crew if you will.
>> Anonymous
Oh fuck!! Wikipedia says they're found in gulf of Mexico??!!

I live in teh fuckin' coast!!! fuckin' two blocks away from the bitch ZOMFG!! I'm really gonna have nightmares... I need to forget this... fast.. need some pr0n... fast...
>> Anonymous
At night, the minions of that, which is dead but dreams, awake and crawl onto land, from their lairs on the ground of the abysses of the sea.
I've seen it for meself lads.
Horribly armored bodies with vicious eyes and more claws than nature would allow.
And then I witnessed the horrible truth...
The slimy creatures marched into town, to I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby "Go, home smell you later" looked at my kingdom I was finally there to sit my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.

IA IA FTAGHN!
>> Anonymous
I swear to god if I ever see one of those on land it's fucking DEAD.
I mean holy shit...
holy,
shit.
>> Anonymous
>>43556

SPOILER: you die
>> Flisan
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Most disgusting thing I've ever seen!
>> Dr. Slouch
Agreed. If I ever saw that thing on land (which I probably never will), I'd have to KILL IT WITH FIRE (figuritvely speaking).
>> Anonymous
& ur all fucking pussies.
>> Anonymous
>>43621

adorable <3
>> Anonymous
>>43654
whatever, just don't get those things near me
>> Anonymous
>>43621
Holy christ...THAT IS SO BADASS.
>> Anonymous
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Yucky.
>> Anonymous
. . . Am I the only one here that wonders if they would taste anything like lobster?
>> Draconis
>>43119
these are meatbugs for those of you who havnt played the gothic series of games.

protip: provide 5 meatbug meats to the cook in the old camp to get several meatbug raguas per day.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>43761
you must be asian...
>> Anonymous
>>43766
Nope, just a really hungry college student.
>> Anonymous
>>43767
ahhh, that works too....it never crossed my mind to eat such an evil looking creature...
>> Anonymous
>>43621

that fish has human-like front teeth
>> AWWWW Stungun Milly
I actually think they look rather Kute.. Cuddly! I want one ^-^
>> Anonymous
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You're all wrong.

It be Garthim.
>> Moira
I've held those before, at the Aquarium in Gatlinburg Tn. They let all the little kids come up and pet and hold them upside down. Its disgusting yet.. you just have to touch it.
>> Anonymous
>>43621
:O I think I'll go throw up now.
>> Anonymous
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>>43621
>> Anonymous
They come for your Doritos at night.
>> Garath !p9lkZcDlbA
>>43776
Dark Crystal FTW
>> Draconis
>>43119
Deploy the cuddlebug ect
>> Anonymous
its god coming to destroy you all
>> Anonymous
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WIN!!!!!!!!!!
>> Anonymous
>>43402
I was in a fleabag motel and I had one of these that was half the size of my hand (and I wear large gloves).

I threw it out the window.
>> Anonymous
>>43761

They are not good eats.