Looking for some suggestions on this 3/4 inch long critter I encountered at Keystone. Shallow water, near surface, swimming backwards, some kind of shrimp? Not in my books... Thanks.
Alien from Keystone
Awesome! And no, I haven't a clue what it is!
The angle of your picture truly looks alien. I suppose that if you see it's "legs" as antennae you can kind of see a shrimp head, but then the rest of it almost looks like dragonfly wings. The "legs" don't look like "regular" shrimp legs, and I suppose the alien's "head" could be a shrimp tail....
Amazing.... Great work as always Jan!
The angle of your picture truly looks alien. I suppose that if you see it's "legs" as antennae you can kind of see a shrimp head, but then the rest of it almost looks like dragonfly wings. The "legs" don't look like "regular" shrimp legs, and I suppose the alien's "head" could be a shrimp tail....
Amazing.... Great work as always Jan!
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OK, Jan.....you're creeping me out now!
WOW! I've never seen anything like this....at least NOT out of a sci-fi movie!!
You might try contacting Claudia Mills. She is a U.W. scientist specializing in gelatinous zooplankton, especially jellyfishes and ctenophores. Her base is at the Friday Harbor Laboratories up in the San Juan Islands. She is the co-author, along with David Wrobel, of the book, Pacific Coast Pelagic Invertebrates - A Guide to the Common Gelatinous Animals
Here's her home page:
http://faculty.washington.edu/cemills/
And here's her contact information:
cemills@u.washington.edu
I'd bet that she might have a decent idea as to what this is!
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WOW! I've never seen anything like this....at least NOT out of a sci-fi movie!!
You might try contacting Claudia Mills. She is a U.W. scientist specializing in gelatinous zooplankton, especially jellyfishes and ctenophores. Her base is at the Friday Harbor Laboratories up in the San Juan Islands. She is the co-author, along with David Wrobel, of the book, Pacific Coast Pelagic Invertebrates - A Guide to the Common Gelatinous Animals
Here's her home page:
http://faculty.washington.edu/cemills/
And here's her contact information:
cemills@u.washington.edu
I'd bet that she might have a decent idea as to what this is!
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Thank you John for the lead, I e-mailed her the picture. Hopefully we get some answer to this and I will be able add the name to it, so others can learn too. And maybe get a better picture of it. My point and shoot camera shutter delay is not well suited for fast swimming, shy creatures, however alien then might be.
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thats the alien from the abyss!!!! very cool movie. what ever it is it has to be what they modeled the aliens after. very cool
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