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Need a reason not to go on the vacation to visit your Aunt Ruth in San Diego, well, I got two for you.

First, humboldt squid are taking an interest in beach goers.  While nobody has been seriously hurt yet, I’m sure it is only a matter of time.  For those of you not familiar with the Humboldt squid, let me give you a run down of why you don’t want to meet up with them.  First, they grow to about 6 or 7 feet, and weigh about 100lbs.  It’s tentacles aren’t like those found on it’s smaller cousins, while it does bear suckers, these suckers happen to have teeth in them, making sure that when they grab you, you stay grabbed.   They also have a beak like that of a parrot, but unlike a parrot, they use their beak to tear apart flesh.  And where there is one, there is probably a couple hundred more.

The second comes in the form of an unknown biological mass floating through out the pacific ocean.  It appears to be just a large black goopey substance.  Nobody knows where it came from, or what exactly it is made up of, but from the article:

“”It’s pitch black when it hits ice and it kind of discolors the ice and hangs off of it,” Brower said. He saw some jellyfish tangled up in the stuff, and someone turned in what was left of a dead goose — just bones and feathers — to the borough’s wildlife department.”  Via Anchorage Daily News

It’s already eaten a goose and a bunch of jelly fish, people are the next logical step on the unknown organism food pyramid.  Scientists may not know what it is, but I’m going with either shoggoth, or Dark Water.  Good thing I found the remaining 7 Treasures of Rule on clearance after the series was canceled.