Cthulhu's Pet?

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For the Love of Cute Kittens! It Looks Like a Sci-Fi Movie Prop

This just goes to show how little most of us know about the oceans. I'm sure some marine biologist reading this will go "Duh, it's a Bathynomus giganteus, better known as giant isopod! An important scavenger in the deep-sea benthic environment...", but the rest of us will just stare with our mouths open. Didn't one of those make a cameo in District 9?

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