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July 3, 2009: Pink Cucumber
Damn, I thought I posted this last night but I must have previewed and not posted.
Anyway, here's a pink cucumber for your 4th of July salad...
and it'd already salted. 
| Beautiful, ugly, or just plain peculiar according to individual reactions, this pink see-through fantasia is a swimming sea cucumber seen about 2,500 meters deep in the Celebes Sea. In 2007 WHOI biologist Larry Madin led a team of scientists and photographers from the U.S. and the Philippines on an expedition to explore biodiversity in the deep Celebes Sea, supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Geographic Society, and the WHOI Ocean Life Institute. The team used scuba diving, nets, cameras, and ROVs to study the deep sea in this area that has been called a "cradle of biodiversity for shallow water marine animals." (Photo by Laurence Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
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Alluvial Friday Jul 3 09:11 AM
It looks like it's floating in space rather than undersea.
ZenGum Friday Jul 3 09:42 AM
Well, it wasn't what I was expecting.
I say freaky-cool beautiful. Except that internal structure bit. That is a bit unsettling.
birdclaw Friday Jul 3 10:17 AM
If I find anything that looks like that in my salad it's not going to be a pretty picture. 
Shawnee123 Friday Jul 3 11:06 AM
Amazing!
Brianna Friday Jul 3 03:13 PM
What qualifies it as a cucumber?
xoxoxoBruce Friday Jul 3 04:31 PM
Dem smarties sez so. 
spudcon Friday Jul 3 05:19 PM
Any relation to the Purple Weenie?
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