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Mantis Shrimp on steroids?
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    Hmmm...I don't know of any radiology labs along the Ala Wai Canal...

    "The Attack of the 2 Foot Mantis Shrimp!"

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    That's no ordinary shrimp! That is the most foul, cruel crustacea you'd ever laid eyes on!

    Ive seen the bones of a full fifty divers strewn about it's lair. No diver has ever fought with em and lived to tell!

    If you ever come across their burrow brave divers, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, go no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth!

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    Possibly due to human steroidal pollution (largest source--estrogen from birth control pills in urine). The effect of this pollution on a variety of invertebrate and vertebrate organisms' reproduction and growth are only now being fully assessed. Interesting find. Could also be due to other steriodal sources such as soy foods, I guess. (But I like the idea of 50 divers' skeletons strewed about the lair of the giant mantis shrimp--SciFi Channel are you watching?)
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    Look what nuclear radiation did to the ant colonies in the New Mexico blast after the Trinity nuclear test:



    This post meant as a parody of 1950's sci fi flicks. DrDiver, your information is always properly thought provoking.
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    That looks like the ants in our shower! I gotta get me a Geiger counter!
    When the North California fishery crashed in the 1940s, everyone in Monterey wondered where the sardines had gone, Ed Ricketts, marine biologist and colleague of John Steinbeck had the answer, "They're in cans."

    Guidance on what fish to eat may be found here

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    Default I think I just got turned off

    I think my Crustacean eating days are over...
    Eat a bug... OMG... What have I been doing?
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    Well, the one described and pictures in my newspaper column from two weeks ago wasn't on steroids... just sex pheromones.

    You can read about it here.
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