The Cloverfield Monster Is An Abomination From The Deep : Deep Sea News

Profile

Craig is temporarily a post-doctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who is looking for a permanent position. He spends most of his time balancing his overwhelming geekdom with normalcy so he can function in the real world. Luckily his wife likes his geekiness.

Peter Etnoyer is a Graduate Research Associate at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He studies deep corals and ocean fronts, and he loves to be on the water.

Kevin Zelnio is a Graduate Student Researcher at Penn State studying the ecology of hydrothermal vent and methane seep communities. He raises awareness of the plight of the spineless through folk music.

Google All DSN Posts

Awards & Affiliations

Search

Other Information

My book is coming out. Include a link and thumbnail.

Other random info. A link.

Deep Sea News has moved! Make sure to update your bookmarks and feed readers.

« Thankfully I Can Pass 8th Grade Science | Main | Who doesn't love 110 acres of concrete on the ocean floor? »

The Cloverfield Monster Is An Abomination From The Deep

Category: Books/Media • Giant Isopod
Posted on: January 3, 2008 6:57 AM, by CR McClain

I've admittedly been hooked on Cloverfield since I saw the trailer (bottom). Can't say why really as I typically hate monster movies and huge internet hype translates into festering heaps of movies (e.g. Snakes on a Plane). Rick Macpherson is right, I am extremely happy about some recent Cloverfield news. Rick reports this morning that the monster is some abomination from the deep and a bastard child of baleen whale and arthropod. The sheer reproductive logistics of it are mind boggling. What really has this geek salivating is the 6ft tall ectoparasites covering the monster which are dead ringer for Bathynomus giganteus. With a screen debut and musical tribute, I am predicting 2008 to be the year of the Giant Isopod! A brief glimpse of the monster from the trailer

By the way Rick is having second thoughts about continuing blogging. Rick if you are reading this...if you leave I can't be responsible for my actions. Seriously, Rick has a fantastic blog, one of the best of the web, and a unique perspective from the conservation trenches. If you don't read it you should and if you do go tell him to cut out all this leaving nonsense.

Find more posts in: Life Science

TrackBacks

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://scienceblogs.com/mt/pings/60212

Comments

so my awesomely geeky friend has been forwarding me every shred of cloverfield news for the last six months ad nauseum. can't believe i beat him to the punch on this one by reading DSN!

danku. oh and fyi - the behind the scenes shedd trip looks like it might happen. will keep you posted.

Posted by: Andrew | January 3, 2008 8:55 AM

That's an imaginative - and wholly speculative - fan drawing (by a blogger who happens to be a professional concept artist), not official concept art. It's probably cooler than the monster of the actual movie.

http://dougblot.blogspot.com/2007/09/1-18-08.html

http://dougblot.blogspot.com/2007/09/slusho-rar.html

Posted by: Colugo | January 3, 2008 10:54 AM

With a screen debut and musical tribute, I am predicting 2008 to be the year of the Giant Isopod!

Neat! Go monsters go! LOL
Dave Briggs :~)

Posted by: Dave Briggs | January 4, 2008 8:33 AM