Macroscopic bacteria!!

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/20/gromia-cambrian.html

They're not just in bad episodes of Voyager anymore!!

Wow, I had no idea a single celled organism could get that big! I'd actually be really interested in the internal structure of one of those things.

I wonder if they're edible...?

"There are things on heaven and earth undreampt of in your philosophy" indeed. That this species could be almost 2 billion years old has my jaw on the floor.

Leviathan!!

(Rep for identifying the reference...)

I remember that Voyager ep! Janeway as a buff action figure doesn't work as a concept....

And so it begins.

Yes. They taste like chicken.

Watch.

Some fool will try to bring this up from the ocean floor and it will immediately release some sort of toxin into the air that will kill us all in seconds.

I have foreseen it.

very interesting