The first day the cameras began to record the ocean floor 12,000 feet below sea level, all they saw was sand and the bones of enormous fish. The footage, while blurry and mostly grey, showed that there were clearly teeth marks all along the bones. For example the skull of a blue whale was found to be covered in regular indentations approximately forty centimetres in width - three times larger than a Megolodon's. It gave them reason to believe that something was down there, down deeper than anything they'd encountered before and larger than anything they'd encountered before.
The fourth day the cameras found one of the teeth of the "mega predator" that the media had been raving about. It was slightly smaller than the marks they'd recorded from the whale and almost ninety centimetres in length, wickedly curved with sharp serrated edges along both sides. The team began to work on adapting the camera droid to bring the tooth back, not quite aware of its weight but too excited to care about the practicalities.
The fourteenth day marked their seventh attempt at tooth extraction and ever since the discovery the world's eyes had been obsessed with finding out more about the "mega predator". What else did it eat? Was it even still alive? How could something with such large teeth find enough food to sustain it or did it binge and fast to conserve energy so deep down? How could it catch and eat a whale without anybody noticing?
These people forget just how large the ocean is, after all it covers about 70% of the planet's surface. Plenty of unusual creatures, or even average creatures that are simply larger than their kin, will have slipped through the global radar of the world's marine biologists and oceanologists. It's easier for us to map out the moon than it is to get a camera down to the depths of the sea, especially when the aim is to bring back a tooth that could potentially weigh more than the camera droid.
The thirtieth day was celebrated for the most part with hundreds of major news outlets reviewing the thirty days of footage and research so far, mostly focusing on the tooth and artistic renditions of the creature it belonged to. Even the research team was so distracted they didn't notice what the footage from their cameras was showing them.
One single eye, milky pale green and unblinking. It stared directly into the camera, following it along for the six minutes that the droid took to get from one side of its eye to the other. By the time the team went back to the camera screens all they was was pitch blackness and some strange rock formation that looked like a cross between a fish and a volcanic deposit.
For the next nine months it was all the camera droids could see along one side of the trench they were in while the other side was a completely different type of rock altogether. It never occurred to anybody that the walls were moving at a regular rhythm, instead calling it heat ripples and underwater currents. They thought the gills were a large clump of some new deep sea kelp while never spotting the fins at all. Even when the "wall" tapered off to a clear tail they claimed it was just a rock formation.
Was it genuine ignorance or the cold fear of realisation that it took them nine months to get from the tip to the tail of this unknown behemoth that was very much awake?
The fourth day the cameras found one of the teeth of the "mega predator" that the media had been raving about. It was slightly smaller than the marks they'd recorded from the whale and almost ninety centimetres in length, wickedly curved with sharp serrated edges along both sides. The team began to work on adapting the camera droid to bring the tooth back, not quite aware of its weight but too excited to care about the practicalities.
The fourteenth day marked their seventh attempt at tooth extraction and ever since the discovery the world's eyes had been obsessed with finding out more about the "mega predator". What else did it eat? Was it even still alive? How could something with such large teeth find enough food to sustain it or did it binge and fast to conserve energy so deep down? How could it catch and eat a whale without anybody noticing?
These people forget just how large the ocean is, after all it covers about 70% of the planet's surface. Plenty of unusual creatures, or even average creatures that are simply larger than their kin, will have slipped through the global radar of the world's marine biologists and oceanologists. It's easier for us to map out the moon than it is to get a camera down to the depths of the sea, especially when the aim is to bring back a tooth that could potentially weigh more than the camera droid.
The thirtieth day was celebrated for the most part with hundreds of major news outlets reviewing the thirty days of footage and research so far, mostly focusing on the tooth and artistic renditions of the creature it belonged to. Even the research team was so distracted they didn't notice what the footage from their cameras was showing them.
One single eye, milky pale green and unblinking. It stared directly into the camera, following it along for the six minutes that the droid took to get from one side of its eye to the other. By the time the team went back to the camera screens all they was was pitch blackness and some strange rock formation that looked like a cross between a fish and a volcanic deposit.
For the next nine months it was all the camera droids could see along one side of the trench they were in while the other side was a completely different type of rock altogether. It never occurred to anybody that the walls were moving at a regular rhythm, instead calling it heat ripples and underwater currents. They thought the gills were a large clump of some new deep sea kelp while never spotting the fins at all. Even when the "wall" tapered off to a clear tail they claimed it was just a rock formation.
Was it genuine ignorance or the cold fear of realisation that it took them nine months to get from the tip to the tail of this unknown behemoth that was very much awake?
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