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A Melbourne teenager has gone for a dip at the beach and come out covered in blood and looking like a horror movie extra. When Sam Kanizay, 16, felt sore after football on Saturday, he decided to soak his legs at Dendy Street Beach in Brighton just before 6:30pm. Half an hour later, he walked out covered in what his family said were tiny marine creatures eating his legs. Museums Victoria has confirmed the tiny animals were identified as lysianassid amphipods, a type of scavenging crustacean. |
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@mikeymk | 7 August 17 |
A bath might have been a better option.
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@shadow27 | 7 August 17 |
''I walked out and saw what I thought was sand covering my calf and shook it off, and by the time I'd walked across the sand about 20 metres to put my thongs on, I looked down and noticed I had blood all over my ankles,'' he said. Sam said he wasn't in any pain at first, so he walked home from the beach and had a shower. ''I couldn't feel anything because the cold water basically numbed my legs, I felt what I thought was pins and needles,'' he told 3AW. ''It sort of looked like hundreds of little pinholes or pin-sized bites distributed all over my ankle and the top of my foot,'' he said. ''We've had a few people just guessing that it was sea lice but there was no real evidence to say what it was.'' |
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@shadow27 | 7 August 17 |
The next night, Mr Kanizay went back to the beach with a pool net full of meat and captured the creatures he said were responsible. ''What is really clear is these little things really love meat,'' he said of a video he shot, showing the bugs in a tray of water devouring chunks of meat. Ok, I see. It doesn't usually happen, he was just standing still in the water there long enough for these things to start eating him. Cool story. |
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@obi_jon | 7 August 17 |
Lysianassid amphipods? I'm sure i've heard about those before somewhere. ![]() ![]() |
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@dodgey | 7 August 17 |
That'll bring the sharks in.
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@dodgey | 7 August 17 |
@ obi_jon - 7.08.17 - 09:47am Lysianassid amphipods? I'm sure i've heard about those before somewhere. ![]() ![]() Off to google as usual ![]() |
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@wickedwitch | 7 August 17 |
Aww bless
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@birdy | 7 August 17 |
I don't like the thought of this.
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@slago | 7 August 17 |
we call them muncumuncu, they are very tasty
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@obi_jon | 7 August 17 |
They're basically a type of prawn/shrimp. NASA discovered them living 600ft below an ice shelf in Antarctica, whilst researching extremophiles living in the types of extreme conditions that can be found on other planets and may be capable of supporting life there. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/antarctic-shrimp.html |
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@kooh | 7 August 17 |
@ dodgey - 7.08.17 - 09:47am That'll bring the sharks in. Maybe the sharks n the cruatastions have a deal, we will munch em a bit then u come in n finish the job ![]() |
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@psnality | 7 August 17 |
@ obi_jon - 7.08.17 - 10:09am They're basically a type of prawn/shrimp. NASA discovered them living 600ft below an ice shelf in Antarctica, whilst researching extremophiles living in the types of extreme conditions that can be found on other planets and may be capable of supporting life there. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/antarctic-shrimp.html Oh great so the ice melts and the monsters get released |
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@terrydactyl | 7 August 17 |
Crushed Asians?
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@obi_jon | 7 August 17 |
@ dodgey - 7.08.17 - 09:48am Off to google as usual ![]() Yes and what's wrong with that exactly? I knew i'd seen the name before, I just couldn't remember where or why. ![]() |
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@psnality | 7 August 17 |
How are you meant to know something if you don't learn about it first, we don't all just automatically know everything. It's silly anyone saying oh you got to Google it cause how you meant to know. Some things yeah you can just know if you think logically about everything. |
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@tazdevil | 7 August 17 |
I've never been to a beach and I really have no regrets now.
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@psnality | 7 August 17 |
People be like oh you had to Google it and didn't just get the information out of thin air, you're stupid. Makes me laugh. |
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@obi_jon | 7 August 17 |
@ psnality - 7.08.17 - 10:16am Oh great so the ice melts and the monsters get released Bizarrely the ones NASA found under the Antarctic ice were said to be upto 3 inches long, so significantly larger than the ones that shadow reports were knawing on this Aussie chaps legs. The scientists involved said they weren't expecting to find any complex organisms like this, that far under the ice. Raising the possibility that there could be alien prawn like creatures swimming around in the oceans under the ice on places like Jupiter's moon Europa. |
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@psnality | 7 August 17 |
@ obi_jon - 7.08.17 - 10:37am Bizarrely the ones NASA found under the Antarctic ice were said to be upto 3 inches long, so significantly larger than the ones that shadow reports were knawing on this Aussie chaps legs. The scientists involved said they weren't expecting to find any complex organisms like this, that far under the ice. Raising the possibility that there could be alien prawn like creatures swimming around in the oceans under the ice on places like Jupiter's moon Europa. If you think about it being in ice will stunt their growth but out of the ice they can now grow and evolve according to their habitat how all things evolve. Creatures have a habit of evolving according to the environment. |
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@obi_jon | 7 August 17 |
@ psnality - 7.08.17 - 10:37am People be like oh you had to Google it and didn't just get the information out of thin air, you're stupid. Makes me laugh. It's just a defense mechanism for stupid ignorant folk like dodgey, who feel threatened by intelligence and show disdain for facts, either because they're too thick to understand things for themselves or because more often than not it proves what they thought was correct is actually wrong, or both. It's what Trump and his followers do, anything they don't like is wrong and 'fake news', even when the actual verifiable facts show and prove otherwise. ![]() |
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