Underwater "crop circle"

[RMorgan]

Hey folks, you must check this out!

"While diving in the semi-tropical region of Amami Oshima, roughly 80 ft below sea level, Ookata spotted something he had never seen. And as it turned out, no one else had seen it before either."

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/underwater-mystery-circle-2-580x414.jpg

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/underwater-mystery-circle-6.jpg

"On the seabed a geometric, circular structure measuring roughly 6.5 ft in diameter had been precisely carved from sand. It consisted of multiple ridges, symmetrically jutting out from the center, and appeared to be the work of an underwater artist, carefully working with tools. For its resemblance to crop circles, Ookata dubbed his new finding a “mystery circle,” and enlisted some colleagues at NHK to help him investigate. In a television episode that aired last week titled “The Discovery of a Century: Deep Sea Mystery Circle,” the television crew revealed their findings and the unknown artist was unmasked."

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/underwater-mystery-circle-8.jpg

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/underwater-mystery-circle-1.jpg

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/underwater-mystery-circle-9.jpg

http://ookatayouji.amaminchu.com/archives/dablo-004.jpg

"Underwater cameras showed that the artist was a small puffer fish who, using only his flapping fin, tirelessly worked day and night to carve the circular ridges. The unlikely artist – best known in Japan as a delicacy, albeit a potentially poisonous one – even takes small shells, cracks them, and lines the inner grooves of his sculpture as if decorating his piece. Further observation revealed that this “mysterious circle” was not just there to make the ocean floor look pretty. Attracted by the grooves and ridges, female puffer fish would find their way along the dark seabed to the male puffer fish where they would mate and lay eggs in the center of the circle. In fact, the scientists observed that the more ridges the circle contained, the more likely it was that the female would mate with the male. The little sea shells weren’t just in vain either. The observers believe that they serve as vital nutrients to the eggs as they hatch, and to the newborns."

Sources:
http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2012/09/18/deep-sea-mystery-circle-love-story/
http://ookatayouji.amaminchu.com/archives/2012/09/post_459.html

Crazy, uhm? Nature is so impressive! Who would imagine a fish could do such thing?

What if the real crop circles serve a similar purpose? Maybe some sort of being makes them to attract something, for similar reasons.

Cheers,

Raf.

[Kristin]

Very beautiful! Great post RMorgan and interesting to think about.

From the Heart,
Kristin

[Sierra]

Wow Raf! Complexity abounds!

[DeDukshyn]

Very Cool Raf! My favorite creature for complexity though is the Corolla spider - it would take more time than I have right now to explain what it does, but for those fascinated with the amazing things Earth's creatures can do, look it up. Random mutation my arse! ;-)

[Eram]

Very Cool Raf! My favorite creature for complexity though is the Corolla spider - it would take more time than I have right now to explain what it does, but for those fascinated with the amazing thing's Earth's creatures can do, look it up. Random mutation my arse! ;-)

A video will do the explaining for you DeDukshyn :)

LhoRAjUBttM

amazing post RMorgan!

[HURRITT ENYETO]

How awesome is that, I keep 4 different species of Puffers, and i didn't know about this!
What my Puffer fish makes, could be better described as a rough hole though LOL, I must've got an 'inartistic' puffer fish, and I haven't seen him snag any passing chicks with it yet :)
But Puffers are very intelligent creatures, and they just make such a cute couple in the centre of that awesome circle don't they!

Thanks OP



Hurritt

[Sidney]

That is reallly quite unbelievable and impressive.Our creator(s) works in mysterious ways.

[meat suit]

nice one Raf,

there is also the bower bird....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbWJPsBPdA

[Hughe]

Would I ridicule the crop circle researchers saying "Look at the crop circle hanging in the tree?"

Amazing, impressive, the nature can do it. What is it? "Spiders do create complex geometric shape all the time."
Oh silly me or pathetic skeptics? Help yourself.

[Skywizard]

I just can't hardly believe a little fin flapping puffer fish could do this! (but I guess it’s true) Might come closer to believing if it was a little smaller “nest?.” Look how perfectly round it is, the height and depth of the perfectly spaced sand in the fanned out portions… but nature can be wonderful.

Good thread Raf.
just only my opinion ~skywizard

[GloriousPoetry]

Hey folks, you must check this out!

"While diving in the semi-tropical region of Amami Oshima, roughly 80 ft below sea level, Ookata spotted something he had never seen. And as it turned out, no one else had seen it before either."

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/underwater-mystery-circle-2-580x414.jpg

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/underwater-mystery-circle-6.jpg

"On the seabed a geometric, circular structure measuring roughly 6.5 ft in diameter had been precisely carved from sand. It consisted of multiple ridges, symmetrically jutting out from the center, and appeared to be the work of an underwater artist, carefully working with tools. For its resemblance to crop circles, Ookata dubbed his new finding a “mystery circle,” and enlisted some colleagues at NHK to help him investigate. In a television episode that aired last week titled “The Discovery of a Century: Deep Sea Mystery Circle,” the television crew revealed their findings and the unknown artist was unmasked."

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/underwater-mystery-circle-8.jpg

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/underwater-mystery-circle-1.jpg

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/underwater-mystery-circle-9.jpg

http://ookatayouji.amaminchu.com/archives/dablo-004.jpg

"Underwater cameras showed that the artist was a small puffer fish who, using only his flapping fin, tirelessly worked day and night to carve the circular ridges. The unlikely artist – best known in Japan as a delicacy, albeit a potentially poisonous one – even takes small shells, cracks them, and lines the inner grooves of his sculpture as if decorating his piece. Further observation revealed that this “mysterious circle” was not just there to make the ocean floor look pretty. Attracted by the grooves and ridges, female puffer fish would find their way along the dark seabed to the male puffer fish where they would mate and lay eggs in the center of the circle. In fact, the scientists observed that the more ridges the circle contained, the more likely it was that the female would mate with the male. The little sea shells weren’t just in vain either. The observers believe that they serve as vital nutrients to the eggs as they hatch, and to the newborns."

Sources:
http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2012/09/18/deep-sea-mystery-circle-love-story/
http://ookatayouji.amaminchu.com/archives/2012/09/post_459.html

Crazy, uhm? Nature is so impressive! Who would imagine a fish could do such thing?

What if the real crop circles serve a similar purpose? Maybe some sort of being makes them to attract something, for similar reasons.

Cheers,

Raf.

Thank you for this, the mysteries of this world are endless...............

[Lifebringer]

It looked to me like a vibrational sound pattern when tone is introduced to sand, pepper, salt or other grainy substances.

[DeDukshyn]

It looked to me like a vibrational sound pattern when tone is introduced to sand, pepper, salt or other grainy substances.

When I first looked at the pics that is what I thought ... "What vibrated the sand?" -- cool that they caught the fish in action!

[WhiteFeather]

Wow!!!!! Even the fish are waking up too. Must be the intelligent instructions coming in from Our Galactic Plane.
I started with sacred geometry when i started waking up.
But nothing compared to this puffer fish.
Hey maybe he will join avalon too. You never know.
Mods i would consider letting this lil guy on the forum if he submits a request.


That Puffer Fish Has Gotta Gift!

Great Find Raf, I thought at first it was ocean gas,or underwater chinese submersible water balloons.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ravi4YtUTxo

Heres another smart animal. I just had to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRnI4dhZZxQ

[cloud9]

I dunno.... seriously, I'd ask for more pictures before I believe this perfect simmetry was achieved by a fish!

[GarethBKK]

There's that mysterious number 27 again. 3x3x3

[DeDukshyn]

I dunno.... seriously, I'd ask for more pictures before I believe this perfect simmetry was achieved by a fish!

Did you watch the spider video??! ;) ;) ;)

Maybe .. this one! .. ;) ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ajyHBYVGg&feature=related

never mind all the Allah stuff ;) God, Allah, Gaia -- same diff in this example.

[cloud9]

I dunno.... seriously, I'd ask for more pictures before I believe this perfect simmetry was achieved by a fish!

Did you watch the spider video??! ;) ;) ;)

Maybe .. this one! .. ;) ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ajyHBYVGg&feature=related


I believe nature is awesome but that circle is just too perfect. It would have been better is more pictures or a video were shown. Sorry, I'm still very skeptic :confused:;)

[DeDukshyn]

I dunno.... seriously, I'd ask for more pictures before I believe this perfect simmetry was achieved by a fish!

Did you watch the spider video??! ;) ;) ;)

Maybe .. this one! .. ;) ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ajyHBYVGg&feature=related


I believe nature is awesome but that circle is just too perfect. It would have been better is more pictures or a video were shown. Sorry, I'm still very skeptic :confused:;)

If a crow can go sledding for fun, then can a fish make a circle? ;) ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRnI4dhZZxQ

EDIT: I just noticed Whitefeather already posted that .. lol. sory for the double ... silly syncs.

[Selene]

My unflappable hubby - who is an avid scuba diver - looked at this post and commented: "Fish build houses, too."

Can I strangle him now....? :p

Great find, Raf.

Cheers,

Selene

[Atlas]

I dunno.... seriously, I'd ask for more pictures before I believe this perfect simmetry was achieved by a fish!

Did you watch the spider video??! ;) ;) ;)

Maybe .. this one! .. ;) ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ajyHBYVGg&feature=related


I believe nature is awesome but that circle is just too perfect. It would have been better is more pictures or a video were shown. Sorry, I'm still very skeptic :confused:;)

Published on Sep 20, 2013
Right around this time last year, news broke about the discovery of an amazing little puffer fish capable of creating elaborately designed 'crop circles' at the bottom of the ocean as part of an elaborate mating ritual. The behavior was first documented by a photographer named Yoji Ookata who later returned with a film crew from the Japanese nature show NHK which later aired an episode about the fish.

Even as articles bounced around the web it was still difficult to imagine how a tiny fish could create such a large design in the sand, even when staring directly at photographic evidence. Finally, video has emerged that shows just how the little guy delicately traverses the sand in a rotating criss-cross pattern to create a sort of subaquatic spirograph. The textured sand sculpture not only attracts mates but also serves as protection when the fish pair and lays eggs.

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Published on Oct 2, 2013
This video shows male pufferfish making geometric patterns in the seafloor off Japan to attract mates, by flapping their fins over sediment on the ocean bottom. In one of the clips, a male charges at a female, part of its "courting" routine.

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