Cookie Cutter Shark
cwilcox | March 23, 2009If you've ever watched a National Geographic or Discovery Channel special on the deep sea, you know just about everything that lives in the dark part of the ocean is a Sci-Fi writers dream. The species are so diverse and strange that even the best thought-out aliens hardly hold a candle to the bizarre life that lives in the deep. They have fish with lighted lures, strange, colorless creatures, octopuses that resemble elephants, and, of course, this week's parasite.
The Cookie Cutter Shark, Isistius brasiliensis
Imagine you're in the deep. You look above you, and contrasting the very, very…