Six Gill to Shrimp: We’re Having Pig Tonight!

By Kevin Zelnio, on February 28th, 2010 5 comments   Adaptations, Biodiversity, New Research   British Columbia, Canada, Carcass, Decomposition, deep sea, Forensics, Scavenger, Tunnicliffe  

Broadcast Spawn!

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5 comments to Six Gill to Shrimp: We’re Having Pig Tonight!

• Jason R

  February 28, 2010 at 10:56 · Reply

  Wow, one of the dead zones was so deadly a pig carcass stayed down two months without being scavenged. That’s truly frightening. Why doesn’t SciFi make a stupid movie about that kind of deep sea menace.

• Kevin Zelnio

  February 28, 2010 at 13:57 · Reply

  Jason, that’s brilliant! “It came from depths of the … DEAD ZONE!!!!”

  Its amazing what no oxygen can do a dead prey item.

• Aeolius

  February 28, 2010 at 14:27 · Reply

  instead of Sharktopus, I’d like to see Globster… 10 yards of bubble-wrap and a few models in bikinis… that’s on par with what syfy shows these days…

  The ORCA carcass-cam is still online… no piggy remains, but they’re using a light-lure to see if it attracts anything.

• Scavengers brave dead zones for fleshy feast « Arch-Anemone

  February 28, 2010 at 14:50 · Reply

  [...] amazing part, as a commenter at Deep Sea News notes, is that the water’s so oxygen-poor that the pig sat untouched for two whole months. [...]

• Miriam

  February 28, 2010 at 15:16 · Reply

  Hah, I saw this talk at AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting just this past week. It was AWESOME. The take-home message was that bacon trumps breathing – up to a point.