Comments on: Why is The Giant Isopod Giant? http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/ All the news on the Earth's largest environment. Tue, 22 May 2012 14:59:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Revealing life at the Ridge | Deep Sea News http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/comment-page-1/#comment-16919 Revealing life at the Ridge | Deep Sea News Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:23:19 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/#comment-16919 [...] First of all, whenever you see these types of press shots you’re not looking at some wild, free-range deep-sea creature in its natural habitat. Nope, these pictures are taken in a fish tank (albeit a rather sophisticated-looking one) onboard the ship, using a huge macro lens. Most deep-sea things tend to be a lot smaller in real life. (The exception, of course, is giant isopods—those things are freakin’ humongous.) [...] [...] First of all, whenever you see these types of press shots you’re not looking at some wild, free-range deep-sea creature in its natural habitat. Nope, these pictures are taken in a fish tank (albeit a rather sophisticated-looking one) onboard the ship, using a huge macro lens. Most deep-sea things tend to be a lot smaller in real life. (The exception, of course, is giant isopods—those things are freakin’ humongous.) [...]

]]> By: The Media Gaffe that is Isopocalypse 2010 | glassbox-design.com http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/comment-page-1/#comment-11808 The Media Gaffe that is Isopocalypse 2010 | glassbox-design.com Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:43:22 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/#comment-11808 [...] is because of temperature. If you read his post he clearly believes it is food limitation (http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/). This is his research and he has a written record of studying body size evolution in deep sea [...] [...] is because of temperature. If you read his post he clearly believes it is food limitation (http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/). This is his research and he has a written record of studying body size evolution in deep sea [...]

]]> By: Isopocalypse 2010: Giant Isopods Storm the Internets | Deep Sea News http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/comment-page-1/#comment-11584 Isopocalypse 2010: Giant Isopods Storm the Internets | Deep Sea News Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:36:00 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/#comment-11584 [...] Fox article proceeds to cite our old giant isopod post over at ScienceBlogs instead the posts on giant isopods here at the new improved DSN.  The Fox story also cherry picks from original post stating that I posted that their large size [...] [...] Fox article proceeds to cite our old giant isopod post over at ScienceBlogs instead the posts on giant isopods here at the new improved DSN.  The Fox story also cherry picks from original post stating that I posted that their large size [...]

]]> By: Cosmic Log: Monster bug? It’s no joke! | Good Stuff http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/comment-page-1/#comment-11571 Cosmic Log: Monster bug? It’s no joke! | Good Stuff Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:21:14 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/#comment-11571 [...] Why is the giant isopod giant? [...] [...] Why is the giant isopod giant? [...]

]]> By: matthew duren http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/comment-page-1/#comment-11562 matthew duren Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:51:27 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/#comment-11562 I do not propose that i know much about these things but i am excell at analitical thinking. Sometimes the direction an nature of our questions can be limited by learning. sometimes it takes the unknowing eye to ask the question that knowledge can obstruct. every creaature on this amazing planet of ours developed from the first cingle celled organisms. we are all cousins so to speak. we can look to other animals bugs, birds, fish, plants, viruses, germs, bacteria, all the living things in this world started at the same place. This evolution also extends to things we dont even realize at times.why even the computer programs we use today are mirrored after the behavioral patterns in the wild called algorithems if i spelled that right. Dinosaurs are a perfect example of the genetic marker that we visually see in the fossils of reptiles. why were dinosaurs so big? answer your question an i suspect youll have the answer for that one an vice versa. If you look at the behavior of all of nature an you will understand why an how the animals of today an the plants too came to be. If we look at our own psyiology an its seperate parts an how they mirror other systems in nature an u will start to see it. Our circulatory systen is like a tree. remove a tree from the ground with its roots intact an you see a mirror of our circulatory system. our skin is like a different version of the skin of a tree where the living part is on the out side bark is the epidermas. an so forth. there is coral that looks like the human brain. An on an on it will go as with every creature alive there related systems can be found echoed all across nature. some creatures from seperate species display a symbiotic relationship. like the birds around an elephant or rino. or fish that groom other fish. or the bacteria in our stomachs. cingle celled organisms with different traits would share a sybiotic relationship with one another say like if one ate one kind of mineral an gave off a byproduct that the other needed then u would find they would reproduce together until they seemingly became one genetically connected. complex systems can also demonstrate this kind of behavior but it becomes less frequent with the complexities of the systems an compatibility less frequent. exception to this and a purfect example would be human reproduction. think of all that people face to reproduce. Lol! Two different systems but very similar ones so much that reprodutction from the union of two different genetic structures joining as on to form a new one. genetic defects are an example where the systems are different in a maner that causes them to not function together an die. Viruses an the way they attack our bodies is a smaller organism trying to invasively introduce its genetics in our system. The forced symbiosis is not always fatal to the smaller organisms sometimes its fatal to the larger ones. it has a negative impact like a parasite. like heartworms to a dog. If heart worms werent fatal an harmful but impacted both in a positive way they would over time be permenantly joind in their genetic make up. like what we have become. You will find a genetic trait that is shared between gigantic species like the arthropidic nature of just the one u are describing in the boney plated arthropidic form as ur water bug. An if you can corelate the similar environmental or dietary or preditorial vs. scavengers an see which ones the are the similar factors for them all an i suspect u will have ur answer. stuydy the research of others to find similar answers. an remember sometimes its just as einestine says its relative to the perspective that its viewed from. Nothing is written in stone an new information can bless or destrow old ideas an views but none are infaliable an theres always more to learn. my blessing is the ability to remember almost everything that i c. so when i read or watch something i never forget it. i love information! I do not propose that i know much about these things but i am excell at analitical thinking. Sometimes the direction an nature of our questions can be limited by learning. sometimes it takes the unknowing eye to ask the question that knowledge can obstruct. every creaature on this amazing planet of ours developed from the first cingle celled organisms. we are all cousins so to speak. we can look to other animals bugs, birds, fish, plants, viruses, germs, bacteria, all the living things in this world started at the same place. This evolution also extends to things we dont even realize at times.why even the computer programs we use today are mirrored after the behavioral patterns in the wild called algorithems if i spelled that right. Dinosaurs are a perfect example of the genetic marker that we visually see in the fossils of reptiles. why were dinosaurs so big? answer your question an i suspect youll have the answer for that one an vice versa. If you look at the behavior of all of nature an you will understand why an how the animals of today an the plants too came to be. If we look at our own psyiology an its seperate parts an how they mirror other systems in nature an u will start to see it. Our circulatory systen is like a tree. remove a tree from the ground with its roots intact an you see a mirror of our circulatory system. our skin is like a different version of the skin of a tree where the living part is on the out side bark is the epidermas. an so forth. there is coral that looks like the human brain. An on an on it will go as with every creature alive there related systems can be found echoed all across nature. some creatures from seperate species display a symbiotic relationship. like the birds around an elephant or rino. or fish that groom other fish. or the bacteria in our stomachs. cingle celled organisms with different traits would share a sybiotic relationship with one another say like if one ate one kind of mineral an gave off a byproduct that the other needed then u would find they would reproduce together until they seemingly became one genetically connected. complex systems can also demonstrate this kind of behavior but it becomes less frequent with the complexities of the systems an compatibility less frequent. exception to this and a purfect example would be human reproduction. think of all that people face to reproduce. Lol! Two different systems but very similar ones so much that reprodutction from the union of two different genetic structures joining as on to form a new one. genetic defects are an example where the systems are different in a maner that causes them to not function together an die. Viruses an the way they attack our bodies is a smaller organism trying to invasively introduce its genetics in our system. The forced symbiosis is not always fatal to the smaller organisms sometimes its fatal to the larger ones. it has a negative impact like a parasite. like heartworms to a dog. If heart worms werent fatal an harmful but impacted both in a positive way they would over time be permenantly joind in their genetic make up. like what we have become. You will find a genetic trait that is shared between gigantic species like the arthropidic nature of just the one u are describing in the boney plated arthropidic form as ur water bug. An if you can corelate the similar environmental or dietary or preditorial vs. scavengers an see which ones the are the similar factors for them all an i suspect u will have ur answer. stuydy the research of others to find similar answers. an remember sometimes its just as einestine says its relative to the perspective that its viewed from. Nothing is written in stone an new information can bless or destrow old ideas an views but none are infaliable an theres always more to learn. my blessing is the ability to remember almost everything that i c. so when i read or watch something i never forget it. i love information!

]]> By: Doug http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/comment-page-1/#comment-11559 Doug Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:30:03 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/#comment-11559 Does anybody know what they taste like? Does anybody know what they taste like?

]]> By: Mark S http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/comment-page-1/#comment-11552 Mark S Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:38:32 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/#comment-11552 Another way to look at this would be to ask why land isopods are so tiny! I have an idea - perhaps unfounded - that body size relates to competition between predator and prey. The larger you are, the fewer the things can eat you, and more things are edible. I think the pill bugs in my back yard are tiny so they can hide easily. That's obviously not an option for the giant isopod, so maybe being huge is good if you are walking around on the ocean floor with no cover. So two questions: Is the ocean floor really open where it lives? And .... does anything eat a giant isopod? Besides people, who eat anything. Another way to look at this would be to ask why land isopods are so tiny!

I have an idea – perhaps unfounded – that body size relates to competition between predator and prey. The larger you are, the fewer the things can eat you, and more things are edible. I think the pill bugs in my back yard are tiny so they can hide easily. That’s obviously not an option for the giant isopod, so maybe being huge is good if you are walking around on the ocean floor with no cover.

So two questions:

Is the ocean floor really open where it lives?

And …. does anything eat a giant isopod? Besides people, who eat anything.

]]> By: Giant Isopod Fail | Deep Sea News http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/comment-page-1/#comment-7786 Giant Isopod Fail | Deep Sea News Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:32:27 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/#comment-7786 [...] is a giant [...] [...] is a giant [...]

]]> By: JOHN L http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/comment-page-1/#comment-7535 JOHN L Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:55:57 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/#comment-7535 I want to find out that can deep sea isopop be sea food? I want to find out that can deep sea isopop be sea food?

]]> By: JSL and Giant Isopods | Deep Sea News http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/comment-page-1/#comment-7035 JSL and Giant Isopods | Deep Sea News Sun, 31 May 2009 15:28:15 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/2007/04/why-is-the-giant-isopod-giant/#comment-7035 [...] why deep-sea organisms are the size they are? Often a single observation of singe item or event stimulates a single question you spend the rest of your life trying to answer. Of course, I other remember many other things about my first submersible dives on the JSL.  I was [...] [...] why deep-sea organisms are the size they are? Often a single observation of singe item or event stimulates a single question you spend the rest of your life trying to answer. Of course, I other remember many other things about my first submersible dives on the JSL.  I was [...]

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