Oil Worms and more!

I was walking down the street today and was thinking about my new bedroom and what art to put where. Even though I have a plethera of art that goes in and out of galleries and usually lives on my walls I was suddenly inspired today to create a giant octopus picture this evening. Its going to be 20x30 watercolor/water soluble crayon/india ink. Epic is the word you are looking for right now. So I've been hooked on sea creatures all month and have already delved into octopi a bunch I will continue my search today and practice some drawings on my work notepad (demanding job right?). Here are some of the weird things I stumbled upon in my search.

... Did you know that there are animals that eat oil? specifically sea dewlling animals? umm bp? want to buy a whole bunch of tube worms? What are some in the scientific community saying about this?

“The gulf is such a great fishery because it’s fed organic matter from oil,” said Roger Sassen, a specialist on the cold seeps who recently retired from Texas A&M University. “It’s preadapted to crude oil. The image of this spill being a complete disaster is not true.” His stance seems to be a minority view.



not only that but apparently the ocean floor 'seeps' crude oil all the time... here's what a New York Times article said...


"The 2003 report lists the relative contributions to the global sea from natural seeps as well as activities associated with the extraction, transportation and consumption of crude oil. It based its global portrait on average, annual, petrochemical releases from 1990 to 1999.
Natural seeps turned out to account for 600 kilotons annually, or 47 percent of the total. Consumption — from such activities as boating, urban runoff and industrial wastes — came in second at 480 kilotons, or 38 percent of the total. In third place were releases from such transportation-related activities as leaky pipes, tanker spills and cargo-hold washings. They amounted to 160 kilotons annually, or 12 percent of the total.
In last place were releases to the sea that tend to make headlines — those associated with oil extraction, like the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20. Globally, that kind of release amounted to 38 kilotons annually, or 3 percent of the total."

huh.

weird...creatures...



















Who needs James Cameron and his silly acid spitting aliens when we have these guys right here on Earth!!! This crab (creepily dubbed the 'insider') actually uses another creatures body for its body... where it will lay its eggs and hatch em. Mr. Cameron how did you see that one coming?