# Re: Alien Lifeform or ...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions and Answers\ **Created:** [February 7, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/re-alien-lifeform-or/7774 "2009-02-07T17:36:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/98c254f433ccdc03413891b0179886c00d3d3763.png) [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 8:02am UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/re-alien-lifeform-or/7774/21 "2009-02-08T08:02:29Z")
IT’s a FACE hugger!! but still… the things you find in the ocean are weird it looks like a starfish. it looks like coral it could be something wierd but what happens sometimes is this… Angry crab at the very bottom of the deep part of the ocean sees weird creature, creature touches crab, crab grabs starfish creature and holds it for a long time seagull grabs crab crab is flying in the air over your house and drops the creature in peril… who knows this could be from the depths of mariannas trench you could be famous for this discovery. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/98c254f433ccdc03413891b0179886c00d3d3763.png) [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/re-alien-lifeform-or/7774/22 "2009-02-08T08:20:56Z")
Here’s its twin, Basket Starfish…It’s so pretty…Make sure it is thoroughly dry and coat with urethane to basically keep the odor away and to help strengthen its’ tentacles…Very fragile… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/98c254f433ccdc03413891b0179886c00d3d3763.png) [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 8:45am UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/re-alien-lifeform-or/7774/23 "2009-02-08T08:45:32Z")
i still think its a face hugger ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/98c254f433ccdc03413891b0179886c00d3d3763.png) [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/re-alien-lifeform-or/7774/24 "2009-02-08T16:43:27Z")
> [@Soggy](#): > > THE WINNNNNNNAR … BIG THUMB! > > And thanks for the ID. There’s been a recount and MiG won with Big Thumb second. Any challenges should go to Florida for a hand count. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/98c254f433ccdc03413891b0179886c00d3d3763.png) [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/re-alien-lifeform-or/7774/25 "2009-02-08T20:07:32Z")
> [@Soggy](#): > > There’s been a recount and MiG won with Big Thumb second. Any challenges should go to Florida for a hand count. Yep, MiG knows all!    Long post ahead but I felt that many people viewing this thread were genuinely curious about that critter.  So I decided to show a few more interesting living organism that I came across in my interest with living things. [Echinoderms](http://www.oceanicresearch.org/education/wonders/echinoderm.html) form an interesting group of animals as they have many characteristics that are not found in other groups.  For example, they have a [water vascular system](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_vascular_system) that they use for moving, nutrition and gas exchange.   Their symmetry is also unique. Here are a few other animals from this group with some interesting features: Comatulida [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Critter\_600.jpg](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Critter_600.jpg) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur37rbIf2P0) Sea cucumbers who have an interesting defense mechanism against predators:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCxKFc3XtJs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCxKFc3XtJs) Crinoids who look like underwater flowers: [http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/2007/11/a\_jogging\_flower\_reprise.php](http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/2007/11/a_jogging_flower_reprise.php) Brittlestars: [http://www.oceanfootage.com/stockfootage/Star\_Invertebrate\_Brittle](http://www.oceanfootage.com/stockfootage/Star_Invertebrate_Brittle) (third and fourth clips are good) Some feed with their legs up. [http://preview.tinyurl.com/dax4k5](http://preview.tinyurl.com/dax4k5) Extreme examples of living things always add wonder to the study of biology.  Here are a few other creatures that fit this catergory. The fungi of the genus Cordiceps that attack insects. [![](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e6cf51259f7cbd1a24c5c7d620e13353ddef026f.jpeg "Cordyceps Fungus") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOQ0VU24xw) The carnivorous sponge species _Asbestopluma hypogea_ [http://www.telascica.hr/En/Spuzva\_en.htm](http://www.telascica.hr/En/Spuzva_en.htm) which can rearrange it’s body when feeding. The New Mexico whiptail lizards where all individuals are females. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemidophorus\_neomexicanus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemidophorus_neomexicanus) And finally, the giant japanese hornet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian\_giant\_hornet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet) and the little asiatic bee that has another interesting defense mecanism against it: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apis\_cerana#Ecology\_and\_behaviour](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apis_cerana#Ecology_and_behaviour). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/98c254f433ccdc03413891b0179886c00d3d3763.png) [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/re-alien-lifeform-or/7774/26 "2009-02-08T21:02:29Z")
Full disclosure:  I asked a mutual friend of ours, Bigthumb, who identified it.  Then I posted 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/98c254f433ccdc03413891b0179886c00d3d3763.png) [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/re-alien-lifeform-or/7774/27 "2009-02-25T00:49:22Z")
Another Alien looking creature: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/98c254f433ccdc03413891b0179886c00d3d3763.png) [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/re-alien-lifeform-or/7774/28 "2009-02-25T03:21:54Z")
MAN!  That thing is pretty cool, but the REALLY strange thing is just after I watched that video I went and stumbled (a random web page button, basically) and this was the first page it took me to [news.nationalgeographic.com/news … index.html](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/index.html) Twilight zone stuff.  ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/98c254f433ccdc03413891b0179886c00d3d3763.png) [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/re-alien-lifeform-or/7774/29 "2009-02-25T04:11:57Z")
You are being watched! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/98c254f433ccdc03413891b0179886c00d3d3763.png) [@system](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.hackingthemainframe.com/t/re-alien-lifeform-or/7774/30 "2015-11-14T17:11:36Z")
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