To the delight of divers, and to the chagrin of fishermen, the swarms of giant Echizen kurage jellyfish that invade the coast of the Sea of Japan each autumn are back.
These photos were taken 5 meters underwater just offshore from the coastal town of Echizen in Fukui prefecture, where the jellyfish mobs began to arrive about a month later than normal.
Manabu Nakamata, a 38-year-old diver from Nagoya and an admirer of the monster jellyfish, says, ‘They are surprisingly hard to the touch. They are big, and extremely impressive.’ Big indeed — Echizen kurage can grow up to 2 meters (6 ft. 7 in.) in diameter and weigh up to 200 kilograms (440 lb.) each.
The local fishermen, however, are not impressed. Each year, the giant jellyfish wreak havoc on the fishing industry by destroying nets and crushing, poisoning and sliming other fish in the catches. In the latest move in the war on jellyfish, Fukui prefecture is developing new and efficient weapons designed to pulverize those that threaten their shores.

“Behind the Success of every man, there is a woman.” Amazing picutre! J ust press CTRL+A to select all and you will know why it is so. .

The giant squid has very large and intelligent eyes. They have ten arms, but two of them are longer then the other arms. Giant squids have sharp beak like mouths and powerful jaws. They swim backwards faster than some animals can swim forwards. The giant squid is a relative to octopuses and cuttlefish. Their arms are lined with rows of suckers with horny rings around them. The giant squids body is tinted and spotted with changing colors. If the giant squid is under attack it will squirt out incline fluids, so they can run away when they squirt there ink. The squids arms are as big as a mans thigh. Its body is inside a shell that has a shape somewhat like an ice-cream cone. Their eyes are as much as 40 cm wide. The giant squid are the favorite food of big sperm whales. There are terrible battles when a big whale meets a giant squid. The squid wraps its long arms around the whale and squeezes. Most of the time the whale wins the fight and eats the squid. Many whales have been seen with marks of a giant squid’s arms on their bodies

Where it lives

The giant squid lives in the depths of the oceans and seas and in the coastal waters around Europe and Canada and they sometimes live in Monterey. There are only three open spaces in the sea with giant squids.

What it eats

Giant Squids eat shrimp and smaller fish ,they also eat larger sea animals giant squids eat with a large beak somewhat like parrots when it clamps down the creature doesn’t bleed much because of all the pressure in less it falls a part. Gaint squids are eaten by sperm whales.

How big it is

A giant squid can grow to be 60` long which is a little bit longer then 10 average men or 6 ceilings, WOW, that’s as big as a hubcap. Remains of giant squids have been found and the legs are a little over 50` long. That is a little over 48 pop cans

Stories about giant squids

In 1861, a french corvette attacked a 25-foot squid with a cannon and a riflemen person had a part of a giant squid in his freezer. Since no one had ever tasted the a giant squid before he decided to try it. When he tasted it ,it was bittern one has ever seen a giant squid in its natural habitat before. For about 30 years scientists have been putting bits and pieces information about the giant squid together to find out were they live.

Long ago, people believed in sea monsters. One of the monsters was called Kraken. People said it had ten arms and was so big it could swallow a whole ship. Today, we know there is no such thing as a kraken, but there really are animals somewhat like the kraken. One of them is the giant squid. The live in the deep seas.

Shocking news circulated in China . A town in Canton is now on trend taking baby herbal soup to
increase health and sexual performance/stamina. The cost in China currency apprx $ 4000 (I think it is about R2000)

A factory manager was interviewed and he testified that it is effective because he is a frequent customer.

It is a delicacy whereby expensive herbs are added to boil the baby with chicken meat for 8 hours boiling/steaming.

He pointed to his second wife next to him , who is 19 (he is 62), and testified that they have sex everyday.

After waiting for a couple of weeks he took this reporter to the restaurant when he was informed by restaurant Manager that the spare rib soup (local code for baby soup) was now available .

This time it was a couple who have 2 daughters and this 3rd one was confirmed to be a daughter again.

So the couple aborted the baby which was 5 months old. Those baby close to be born and die naturally costs 2000 in China currency.

Those aborted ones cost a few hundreds in China Currency. Those couples who did not want to sell dead babies, placentas can be accepted also for couple of hundreds.

The reporter making comment that is this the problem arised from Chinese being taking too much attention in health or is the backfire effect when China introduced one child in a family policy

(since majority prefers to have male babies and those poorer families need ended up selling their female babies.)

More like a lion to me….

Nearly same size as a horse

cant comment….is really huge.

Normal size.

A world record size Piranha!!

The reason why I will not go for a swim in the Amazon.

Indonesia [Watuliney District] a piglet is born with a head look like a human face. The piglet weight about 1.5kilogram and is a female. The face totally assemble like a human face but the voice sound like a monkey. The unique part of the piglet had a center hair point like a human. This piglet born together with 12 others piglet and all of them are in normal condition.

The Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a strepsirrhine native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the same ecological niche as a woodpecker. It is the world’s largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unique method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood and inserts its elongated middle finger to pull the grubs out.
Daubentonia is the only genus in the family Daubentoniidae and infraorder Chiromyiformes. The Aye-aye is the only extant member of the genus (although it is currently an endangered species); a second species (Daubentonia robusta) was exterminated over the last few centuries.