Comments on: This may be the ocean’s most horrifying monster (and you’ve probably never heard of it) https://deepseanews.com/2013/10/this-may-be-the-oceans-most-horrifying-monster-and-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it/ All the news on the Earth's largest environment. Sat, 04 Jul 2015 16:18:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Johnnymorales https://deepseanews.com/2013/10/this-may-be-the-oceans-most-horrifying-monster-and-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it/#comment-7284 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:42:36 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=20830#comment-7284 Even they have their nemesis in the form of a hyper parasitic copapod that does to the rhizocephalan what it did to its crab host.

It too looks like a formless, shapeless blob.

Apparently some crabs can outlive the parasite and resume growing to adulthood. That was according to researchers off the coast of Chile who found populations of crabs with sky high rates of parasitism that were thriving despite this.

They figured out what was happening after identifying adult crabs that had rhizocephalan attachment scars and were free of the parasite.

If I recall correctly, the infection free crabs were all older ones as if they were only succumbed to the parasite as young crabs. Those that lived long enough either outlived the parasite or apparently found a way to rid their system of it and remain parasite free as they didn’t find any of the older crabs with the parasite.

]]> By: Jp https://deepseanews.com/2013/10/this-may-be-the-oceans-most-horrifying-monster-and-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it/#comment-7283 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:17:42 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=20830#comment-7283 I am a male….and my zodiac is Cancer…so this is extremely terrifying.

]]> By: Tclk https://deepseanews.com/2013/10/this-may-be-the-oceans-most-horrifying-monster-and-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it/#comment-7282 Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:23:39 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=20830#comment-7282 Not creepy at all, but awesome :D I love nature!

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]]> By: Ward https://deepseanews.com/2013/10/this-may-be-the-oceans-most-horrifying-monster-and-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it/#comment-7280 Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:03:04 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=20830#comment-7280 Tastes just like chicken…

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]]> By: Dave https://deepseanews.com/2013/10/this-may-be-the-oceans-most-horrifying-monster-and-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it/#comment-7276 Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:47:11 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=20830#comment-7276 In reply to Steve.

At the point that they seem themselves on JayWalking and don’t know what they did wrong

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