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Let's talk about the best weird animals!

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1165659.htm

The two new worm species are distantly related to worms found on underwater sea vents deep in the ocean and comprise their own new genus dubbed Osedax, which means "bone-devouring".
[...]
The females have an outer tube, an inner muscular trunk, an egg-carrying oviduct and little docking points for the microscopic males, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
[...]
Then they looked closer and found the microscopic males inside the females, living off yolk left over from their larval stages, yet full of sperm.

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

pangolin pangolin pangolin pangolin

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.2momluvme.com/muppet/animalpc.jpg

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.yale.edu/opa/v31.n12/page1b.jpg
Incisivosaurus gauthieri

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/images/030122_dromeoart.jpg
Microraptor gui

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/images/030122_dromeoart.jpg
Microraptor gui

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

So I was reading this collection of Stephen Jay Gould essays from 1985 called "The Flamingo's Smile" and he talks about these creatures that have been a source of biological debate for like a century now because they somewhat like a more complicated jellyfish, with a main body and gasbags and feeding tubes and arms and stuff like that, but each part is actually a seperate organism; ie, the reproductive organs are each a seperate living creature, the feeding tube is a seperate living creature, etc. Of course, none of these organisms could survive without the other, since the reproductive organ, for example, wouldn't be able to take in food or kill prey or anything. So the debate is whether this is one organism as a whole, or if it's a colony of seperate organisms. Gould's conclusion, of course, is that it is neither, that it exists on a continuum between organism and colony.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I probably garbled that somewhat.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a portugeuse man-o-war, innit?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Larry Gowan!

― Huck, Friday, 30 July 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Came in clear as a whistle NA.

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it might be a portuegese man-o-war.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't that somewhat anomalous to mitochondria in our cells?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Excellent post NA, too.

Can we get more than a name and pic, like say, a brief description of what makes its awesomeness?

xpost Michael do you mean analogous?

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/pic22508.jpg

Naked mole rat.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(awesome because it looks like a penis with teeth, yes, obv.)

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

flying fish
http://www.hoho.co.uk/assets/images/flying_fish.jpg

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael do you mean analogous?

Yes, but my brane is sputtering.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

aardvarks!

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Bats!

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Australia owns this thread. Wait, I'll find you a platypus.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.google.com.au/images?q=tbn:9UCBVfv79NwJ:http://www.kun.nl/fil-beta/platypus.jpg

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

WHY.

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just gonna say platypus. You're right about Australia. How many types of huge non-flying birds do you have?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Well there's the emu of course. I don't know of any others. We have some weird sea animals too: step forward, box jellyfish!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I love portugese man-o-wars! Im sure i'll have to deal with them a lot when I move to the azores.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, they're beautiful. Anyway, here's a box jellyfish having lunch:

http://www.reefed.edu.au/images/25-7-6.jpg

If one of these stings you, you die. The solution: wear stocking material. Transvestitism has never been so adviseable.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't there a sea creature (like a nudibranch?) whose defense is inverting itself/spewing its inner organs at its predators and making its escape?

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

you forgot about cassowaries! Those things are evil. I know there was another one, but I think it's extinct now.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Cassowaries have those scary big claws used to disembowel!

I know there was another one, but I think it's extinct now.

That's the rhea which I believe is situated in South America. There was a gigantic flightless bird, something like 15 feet tall, but I think it went extinct during the Ice Age or summat.

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

No, there was another one native to Australia.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Flying squirrels (or am I thinking of another non-winged flyer/glider?) can glide for an incredibly long distance and land gently, with pin-point accuracy. I wonder if they on the path towards developing wings or not.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

meerkats look weird - yet cute

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

After a bit of googling: do you mean the Moas of New Zealand?

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I think so, Lee. It was only mentioned in passing on a TV show.
That illustration looks like the costume Lisa's Brazillian penpal wore,

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040726/worm.html?ct=8463.58144496666

But the tiny males are just a bag of sperm and yolk and have no mouth or gut. Instead they live inside the female, and survive on the store of yolk inside their own fatty bodies. Some large females have over 100 males living inside them.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 1 August 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dennisjudd.com/fun/fatcat.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 1 August 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/images/c00091.jpg

Kick ass!

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rstours.com/assets/images/spotted_nudibranch.jpg

http://www.chaparraltree.com/photos/pp-nudibranch-med.jpg

These are nudibranchs.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anybody an idea of what the inside of a marsupial's pouch is like? Is it dry, wet, warm, full of tapioca, what? Aussies, please help me.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 1 August 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I love portugese man-o-wars! Im sure i'll have to deal with them a lot when I move to the azores.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anybody an idea of what the inside of a marsupial's pouch is like? Is it dry, wet, warm, full of tapioca, what? Aussies, please help me.
-- x j e r e m y

You have seen that Simpsons episode? I've often wondered about that myself.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, Mandee, are you serious??

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think she is.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

good, the concept of a fellow ILXor appearing on my turf was hurting my brane.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(I mean, it's the only novelty I have, and a crappy one at that, but still!)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, I thought that was my novelty!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(ahem, aussies!)

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Starfish are weird; they're like some kind of space-alien creature. They pry apart oyster shells and then they turn their own stomachs inside-out and pull them through their mouths into the oyster shells to digest their prey before ingesting them.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

quokkas are kinda weird, like a cross between a rat, a wallaby and a meerkat

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmmm how do you post pics in here, is it not url ??

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

You can just type the http, but with and 'i' at the start: ihttp://www.etcetera

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

That doesn't lead anywhere, by the way.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ooooh tricky

http://www.abrolhosbat.com.au/images/quokka_small.jpg

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

WE R HARKORE, PH3AR OUR MONSTROUS BEASTIES. OK THEY LOOK ALL CUTE AND FURRY BUT THEY BITX0R!!!!!!!!
-- Trayce (trayc...), January 16th, 2004.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.minbu.connectfree.co.uk/woman_w.jpg

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post hey quokkas are pretty menacing, don't you know that if you leave food laying around uncovered they come into your rotto cottage at night and steal it. and they leave little calling cards for unwitting midnight toilet-goers to step in.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/eviau/edit557/oceans/patty/pgulper.gif

These eels freak me the fark out.

In fact all those weirdy deep-sea creatures do. How do we know they're not aliens or something!?

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

good point trayce

http://www.abc.net.au/science/ocean/monsters/img/squid.jpg

― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

because, duh, there's no water in space.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

AAWWAUURGHH GIANT SQUIDS *shudder*

The elusive giant squid is one of the world's largest animals, reaching a length of up to 60 feet. It is the largest known invertebrate in the world. The giant squid is a mollusk and is member of the cephalopod class, which includes the octopus and other squids. Very little is known about these mysterious animals because none have been seen alive in the wild. Most of what we know about them comes from the bodies of dead squid that have washed ashore or been pulled up in fishermen's nets. These animals are carnivores, and will eat just about anything they can catch.

(from http://www.seasky.org/monsters/sea7a1a.html)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread reminds me of at least half a dozen ween albums.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ecobeach.com.au/photos/ph_bilby.jpg

bilbies are also kinda strange lookin' critters

― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

They are sexual marathon runners - they can go at it for over 24 hours.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

who saw the shark thing on abc on saturday night - apparently sharks have two penises! (how sad is my social life)

― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It's sea cucumbers that spew their inner organs to confuse predators. Crehzay!

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

http://divaboo.info/

― max, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, one of the animals on that site is called pink fairy armadillo! Most unintentionally gay animal name ever?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/index.html

That is some freaky shit right there.

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 17:30 (sixteen years ago)

awesome. I mean horrifying. Well all of the good ones are somewhere in between.

How about this little cutie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_isopod.jpg

― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:10 (sixteen years ago)

oops what did I do wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_isopod.jpg

― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

ah right.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Giant_isopod.jpg

― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

when we've killed all of the better-tasting animals in the ocean they're going to wind up selling those things at red lobster.

― DONKEY CANCER in action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:12 (sixteen years ago)

wtf is the point of that fish? What's its evolutionary comparative advantage?

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:18 (sixteen years ago)

Its eyes are less vulnerable.

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:52 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01515/coelacanth_1515621c.jpg

― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Monday, 22 February 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Images/5939/goblin_shark_big.jpg

― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Monday, 22 February 2010 15:13 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.botswanagallery.org/thesis/A/img2/amazon-river-dolphin.jpg

― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Monday, 22 February 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)

Coelocanths! Extant from the age of the dinosaurs!

― A Mermaid... Doing It With Captain Morgan (Leee), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:53 (fifteen years ago)

<img src=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/images/090226-psychedelic-fish-picture_big-ap.jpg>;

― A Mermaid... Doing It With Captain Morgan (Leee), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:54 (fifteen years ago)

A phish:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/images/090226-psychedelic-fish-picture_big-ap.jpg

― A Mermaid... Doing It With Captain Morgan (Leee), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:54 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3168/2623045179_d4a31e137d.jpg

― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Sunday, 28 March 2010 04:32 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76pJAua1lgY

― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Friday, 2 April 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/images/primary/090223-01-fish-transparent-head-barreleye-pictures_big.jpg

― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Friday, 2 April 2010 22:29 (fifteen years ago)

aw I want a fruit bat!

― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Saturday, 3 April 2010 01:30 (fifteen years ago)

that brain fish thing is awesome!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Saturday, 3 April 2010 02:59 (fifteen years ago)

Thermo, FYI: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/index.html

― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:20 (fifteen years ago)

That fish...he is so full of wisdom

― SUPER USA (╓abies), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:26 (fifteen years ago)

aw, that hog thing upthread! I just want to take a pair of machete-sized nail clippers and trim off those curly horns so they don't get all gross and ingrown. does anyone have the hog's contact info?

― broa super (unregistered), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:33 (fifteen years ago)

xpost - by the looks of it, see-thru fish doesn't have much of a brain to store wisdom in. it'd sure be embarrassing if people could judge your intelligence just by peering into your skull. poor fish looks pretty humiliated about it imho.

― broa super (unregistered), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:37 (fifteen years ago)

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/03/knitted_babirusa.php

that's the latest in a series of articles about the BABIRUSA

― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:39 (fifteen years ago)

also since the babirusa contains the words USA in its name - I vote we kill off the bald eagle and make the babirUSA our national animal

― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:40 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.yopress.com/images/posts/halloween-06/cat.jpg

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:40 (fifteen years ago)

Regardless, in those babirusas with spiralling tusks, some authors say that, if the animal lives long enough, the tusks grow fatally into the face

ouch!

― broa super (unregistered), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:42 (fifteen years ago)

y'know, in a way, the United States of America has lived so long that its tusks have begun growing into its face.

― broa super (unregistered), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:44 (fifteen years ago)

what I'm tryna say here is, "god bless the babirUSA"

― broa super (unregistered), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:44 (fifteen years ago)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/jacqp/LisaTeeth.jpg

― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:46 (fifteen years ago)

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/Gothemburg-babirusa-skull-oblique-Mar-2010.jpg

;_; poor babirUSA, if we had only cut off the republican party tusk before it was too late

― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:49 (fifteen years ago)

notice how it's the RIGHT tusk heh heh

― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:49 (fifteen years ago)

heh

― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:58 (fifteen years ago)

― broa super (unregistered), Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:01 (fifteen years ago)

babirUSAs are the new sheeple

― broa super (unregistered), Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:10 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

Behold, the velvet worm!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4ezLN2IqM&feature=player_embedded

― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Sunday, 13 June 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

clearnose guitarfish
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/7/5/1278334270137/clearnose-guitarfish-004.jpg

― gnarly sceptre, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:30 (fifteen years ago)

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:47 (fifteen years ago)

Is that Peter Lorre?

― Ciudad Warez (corey), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)

okay wtf @ guitarfish

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/Smu5HXEHlTI/AAAAAAAANms/qSIqjW9KYxA/s400/Shovelnose+Guitarfish+Mouth.jpg

― no Atlantis is too underwater or fictional (dyao), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)

those eyebrows give me the same uneasy feeling as the surinam toad's hole filled back

― no Atlantis is too underwater or fictional (dyao), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:11 (fifteen years ago)

That uneasy feeling translates for me to: "KILL IT!!"

― Ciudad Warez (corey), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:30 (fifteen years ago)

per wikipedia:
Guitarfish have a body form kinda like those of sharks and rays, which is pretty freakin' awesome.

― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:34 (fifteen years ago)

Neat! Surely those eyebrows are gills? I kind of thought it was a craft project, actually, and that the eyebrows were zippers.

― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Monday, 5 July 2010 23:32 (fifteen years ago)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/bloghoax/guitarfish.jpg

― makes da cool chewbaccas in pain sounds STAR WARS (arby's), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:07 (fifteen years ago)

those eyebrows give me the same uneasy feeling as the surinam toad's hole filled back

― no Atlantis is too underwater or fictional (dyao), Monday, July 5, 2010 12:11 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:18 (fifteen years ago)

http://divegallery.com/leafy_sea_dragon4.jpg

phycodurus eques

― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:29 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

Weirdest animals of 2010:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/photogalleries/101207-top-ten-weird-new-animals-2010/#/t-rex-leech-face_18988_600x450.jpg

― ˙❤‿❤˙˙❤‿❤˙ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 December 2010 04:54 (fifteen years ago)

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/271/cache/papua-new-guinea-new-species-bat_27185_600x450.jpg

Hi dere. I am a YODA BAT.

― ˙❤‿❤˙˙❤‿❤˙ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 December 2010 04:54 (fifteen years ago)

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/239/cache/newfoundland-deep-sea-species-octopus_23992_600x450.jpg

CUTEST OCTOPUS

― ˙❤‿❤˙˙❤‿❤˙ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 December 2010 04:56 (fifteen years ago)

Dumbo Octopus would have words with you.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/05/22/science/22deep_slide01.jpg

― Leeeline Supplement No. 74 (Leee), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:23 (fifteen years ago)

Yoda Bats mum yesterday...
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/photos/stylus/72619-neverending_story_490x200.jpg

― not_goodwin, Thursday, 9 December 2010 10:07 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

Baby dragon:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5-OO39wxkkc/TWKEmjOO6tI/AAAAAAAAAx8/XGy-GwKxR6I/s400/aardvarkbaby.jpg

― My Urine No Longer Smells Like Asparagus (Leee), Monday, 21 February 2011 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

Seven-sexed creature:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/files/2011/03/sevensexesorganism1.jpg

Meet Tetrahymena thermophila, which in addition to its seven different sexes—conveniently named I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII—has such a complex sex life that it requires an extra nucleus. This fuzzy, single-celled critter has a larger macronucleus that takes care of most cellular functions and a smaller micronucleus dedicated to genetic conjugation.

― stronglo recommendington (Leee), Monday, 7 March 2011 00:10 (fourteen years ago)

& sexed = worst date ever.

― not_goodwin, Monday, 7 March 2011 00:21 (fourteen years ago)

7 not &

― not_goodwin, Monday, 7 March 2011 00:21 (fourteen years ago)

Eight-wheel amirite.

― stronglo recommendington (Leee), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:19 (fourteen years ago)

errr, "Eighth."

― stronglo recommendington (Leee), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:19 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52392000/jpg/_52392786_c0089246-spl.jpg

― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 11:47 (fourteen years ago)

see here tom
The 100 Most Fascinatingly Disgusting Members Of The Animal Kindom

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 11:50 (fourteen years ago)

Oops! Tho I think he's kinda cute, not disgusting at all

― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 11:52 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

How about a frog that can turn itself into a heart?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/scienceray/2008/07/01/201653_26.jpg

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Monday, 18 July 2011 01:16 (fourteen years ago)

HYPNOTOAD LIVES.

http://blogs.nature.com/news/hypnotoad2.jpg

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 21 July 2011 01:29 (fourteen years ago)

BIONIC TURTLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ErWsA5guU&feature=player_embedded

― I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Man Grown (Leee), Sunday, 24 July 2011 22:49 (fourteen years ago)

I mean tortoise, I know the difference.

― I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Man Grown (Leee), Sunday, 24 July 2011 22:50 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

The upside is you live a ridiculously long and healthy life, can’t develop cancer, feel very little pain, never get lonely and have great skin right to the end.
The downside is you breathe stinky air, rarely go outside, tend to get cold, don’t see well, live in a monarchy and can’t count on having sex. (Also, you’re a naked mole rat.)

NOT JUST A PHALLUS DENTATUM ANYMORE.

(Did I get the Latin right?)

― hounds heidegger (Leee), Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

omg @ phallus dentatum

― dayo, Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

vagina dentata v. phallus dentatum

― dayo, Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/2012/01/05/why-is-the-new-deep-sea-antarctic-octopus-so-pale/

― tracy mcgr8080 (dayo), Thursday, 5 January 2012 14:23 (fourteen years ago)

it's great to be back, leee!

― tracy mcgr8080 (dayo), Thursday, 5 January 2012 14:23 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

(belated lol looks like we both read Ed Yong's blog).

<a href=https://plus.google.com/photos/108851026326071355993/albums/5694712457955114465/5694712462177328802>;Okinawan Ribbon Eel</a>.

― lEEE (Leee), Saturday, 28 January 2012 22:34 (fourteen years ago)

D'oh.

― lEEE (Leee), Saturday, 28 January 2012 22:34 (fourteen years ago)

And now for the fish that lives in a sea cucumber's butt:

Not content with simply living in unmentionables, the pearlfish has evolved its own anus to become as close as possible to its head. It may seem rather silly to have all that goings on near to where you dine, but it means that the pearl fish only has to poke the front half of his body out of the sea cucumbers bits to get rid of his business. Of course it must have taken some time for this unwanted house guest to evolve a bum hole up to where his tie should be, which can only mean one thing. The pearl fish has been living in sea cucumbers bottoms for quite a while, which can’t be any comfort to the sea cucumber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw2DrbhOA-M&t=05m55s

― lEEE (Leee), Saturday, 28 January 2012 23:00 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw2DrbhOA-M

― lEEE (Leee), Saturday, 28 January 2012 23:00 (fourteen years ago)

'It's a bit like finding a foot-long cockroach.'

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/58229000/jpg/_58229764_p1010514.jpg

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 February 2012 12:51 (fourteen years ago)

giant isopod earlier, bigger, scarier

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Giant_isopod.jpg/220px-Giant_isopod.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg/220px-Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg

― ledge, Thursday, 2 February 2012 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

Not an animal, but still weird (and cool):

Aspens are a good example of how sex can help an organism that usually clones itself to survive. Going by the name Pando (Latin for "I spread"), one particular colony of male aspen trees in Utah is not only the largest organism on earth (weighing in at over 6,000 tons), it is also the oldest, estimated to be 80,000 years old. The organism is actually an entire forest of an estimated 47,000 trees that are all genetically identical, and that are all feeding off a shared root system that covers over 10 acres. The whole thing grew from clones arising from a single tree.

― omar leeettle (Leee), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 05:59 (thirteen years ago)

http://io9.com/5885204/worlds-tiniest-chameleon-is-the-size-of-matchs-head

http://i.imgur.com/CTFaz.jpg

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Monday, 20 February 2012 04:03 (thirteen years ago)

Again, not animalia, but there was a fine article on Toxoplasma gondii in the Atlantic this month:

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

The subjects who tested positive for the parasite had significantly delayed reaction times. Flegr was especially surprised to learn, though, that the protozoan appeared to cause many sex-specific changes in personality. Compared with uninfected men, males who had the parasite were more introverted, suspicious, oblivious to other people’s opinions of them, and inclined to disregard rules. Infected women, on the other hand, presented in exactly the opposite way: they were more outgoing, trusting, image-conscious, and rule-abiding than uninfected women.
...
Meanwhile, two Turkish studies have replicated his studies linking Toxoplasma to traffic accidents. With up to one-third of the world infected with the parasite, Flegr now calculates that T. gondii is a likely factor in several hundred thousand road deaths each year. I
...
Twelve of 44 schizophrenia patients who underwent MRI scans, the team found, had reduced gray matter in the brain—and the decrease occurred almost exclusively in those who tested positive for T. gondii.

― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Monday, 20 February 2012 04:10 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

Not weird so much as OMGFGGFG:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/31/article-1165930-03FD1AB7000005DC-269_468x329.jpg

― Pot Leeedom (Leee), Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:57 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

Glass frog:

http://images.mudfooted.com/glass_frog.jpg

More here: http://mudfooted.com/transparent-glass-frog/

Exquisitely beautiful, really.

― Nothing cracks a turtle like Leeeon Uris (Leee), Sunday, 29 July 2012 22:58 (thirteen years ago)

no dissection needed

― smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Sunday, 29 July 2012 23:04 (thirteen years ago)

And because I want to push that awful worm into the fold, here's another one, i.e., the mantis shrimp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sEoOWdYLWIo

Make sure to watch till the very end!

― Nothing cracks a turtle like Leeeon Uris (Leee), Sunday, 29 July 2012 23:07 (thirteen years ago)

Hmm:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rJcg_BSOaQU/UB1D8jAGAMI/AAAAAAAABkE/7zCdjtiDMX8/s1600/kaarmeetujh020812_503_hu.jpg

― Nothing cracks a turtle like Leeeon Uris (Leee), Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:30 (thirteen years ago)

(Click image, if you dare, to see what the f that is.)

― Nothing cracks a turtle like Leeeon Uris (Leee), Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:31 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

The mite has no anus, and stores its waste in large cells within its gut. Nutting saw these as adaptations for a life spent head-down in a tightly closed space. When the mite dies, its body disintegrates and the waste is released.

... on your face.

http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/31/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-the-mites-that-eat-crawl-and-have-sex-on-your-face/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NotRocketScience+%28Not+Exactly+Rocket+Science%29

― R=J-L (Leee), Friday, 31 August 2012 16:15 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

SUP

http://i.imgur.com/N0Eoe.jpg

― barthes simpson, Monday, 24 September 2012 23:16 (thirteen years ago)

Nudibranch that eats ... crown of thorn starfish or manowar jellies! In addition to being BEAUTIFUL.

― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 01:28 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/spd42.jpg

http://www.nature.com/news/african-spiny-mice-can-regrow-lost-skin-1.11488

― barthes simpson, Friday, 28 September 2012 12:02 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://shanghaiist.com/2012/10/12/this_ugly_but_amazing_chinese_turtl.php

― 乒乓, Friday, 12 October 2012 13:08 (thirteen years ago)

my christ, four headed alien autonomous penis horror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKZcf0KBo-U#!

― itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:44 (thirteen years ago)

It looks like it's pooping out ET. Oo

Moar penis horror:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/files/2012/10/Seed-beetle-penis.jpg

― Leeezzarina Sbarro (Leee), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 04:17 (thirteen years ago)

Better ("better") pic:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/files/2012/10/Seed-beetle-penis2.jpg

Instead, Hotzy and Arnqvist found that the spines puncture or erode the female’s genital tract, allowing sperm to seep into her bloodstream. The duo labelled the sperm of their males with a mildly radioactive chemical so they could track its whereabouts in the female. They found that around 40 percent of the sperm ends up outside the female’s reproductive tract, in other parts of her body. And the longer the penis spines, the greater the leakage.
Why does that help? The sperm obviously aren’t going to be fertilising any eggs in the female’s bloodstream. But seminal fluid contains more than sperm – it’s also a cocktail of other behaviour-bending chemicals. Some make the female more receptive to mating; others seem to induce egg-laying. For the seed beetle, as with many other insects, ejaculation is an act of manipulation as well as fertilisation.

― Leeezzarina Sbarro (Leee), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 04:20 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

Discus fish parents secrete a highly nutritious mucus all over their bodies that the young feed on until old enough to feed themselves.

― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 04:41 (thirteen years ago)

Taking liberties here, but:

Rather than the fully-formed, free-living cells we know today, the last common ancestor of all living things (known as LUCA) was a hollow piece of rock.

― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Saturday, 5 January 2013 18:17 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/0e954b0469c281a9a09eb1378daada3e/tumblr_mh0cpm19zR1s3yrubo1_1280.jpg

Wolffish, derrr.

― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Saturday, 26 January 2013 21:33 (thirteen years ago)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/2f4d4957e3ee785be0350ccee8bc5e6f/tumblr_mhfynesy4J1s3yrubo1_500.jpg

― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Friday, 1 February 2013 04:56 (thirteen years ago)

^^Red-lipped batfish, btw.

― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Friday, 1 February 2013 06:57 (thirteen years ago)

Just found this thread to post http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/ - looks like Leee already got there!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/fcf782ba878b03c484d9bd8395707bb8/tumblr_mhurkyOYo71s3yrubo1_1280.jpg

― brogue element (seandalai), Friday, 8 February 2013 12:07 (twelve years ago)

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/files/2013/02/Nudibranch.jpg

Nudibranch:

Ayami Sekizawa from Osaka City University watched the mating slugs, she noticed something odd. After they finished mating, they would crawl away with their penises still extruded from their bodies. Twenty minutes later, these trailing genitals broke off completely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIUk08iYZKE

― Ultramega OK Cupid (Leee), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 06:07 (twelve years ago)

Leaf-nosed snake:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N-smWGi7SUA/UPc6YA5L7GI/AAAAAAAAMqI/VxweN-_7JEE/s320/Langaha_nasuta_female_DB.jpg

― Ultramega OK Cupid (Leee), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 06:15 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ED_exG3qLk&feature=player_embedded

― Ultramega OK Cupid (Leee), Friday, 15 February 2013 05:05 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBkWhkAZ9ds

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 13:36 (twelve years ago)

Omfg!

― Margaret Vegemite Sanger (Leee), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:58 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

Hyenas: more closely related to cats than dogs!

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1575

― R = J - L (Leee), Monday, 15 April 2013 03:34 (twelve years ago)

once in college, standing around in the quad, i was talking with a girl from europe and she saw something out of the corner of her eye and gasped, "What kind of animal is that!" it was a squirrel, but she had looked at it backwards, believing the tail was the head and neck, and so thought it was some kind of exotic american animal she had never seen before.

― Pat Finn, Monday, 15 April 2013 04:35 (twelve years ago)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/2013/04/19/unusual-offshore-octopods-does-the-worlds-largest-octopus-only-have-seven-arms-video/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw8zl5vrAu8

― 乒乓, Sunday, 21 April 2013 13:09 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw8zl5vrAu8

― 乒乓, Sunday, 21 April 2013 13:11 (twelve years ago)

Combining weirdness with cephalopods, <3

― R = J - L (Leee), Sunday, 21 April 2013 17:54 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ

― 乒乓, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 16:29 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/kR3PVOC.jpg

― 乒乓, Friday, 26 April 2013 19:15 (twelve years ago)

http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/05/endangered-frogs-of-ecuador-photographed-by-peter-lipton/

http://i.imgur.com/z76zx7B.jpg

― 乒乓, Sunday, 5 May 2013 14:03 (twelve years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/science/blaschka-glass-menagerie-inspires-marine-expedition.html?_r=0

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:03 (twelve years ago)

Wish that the blobfrog url did not include the word "endangered." :(

― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:39 (twelve years ago)

I've caught these before. They bark!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRluB6eyN3c

― beach situations (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 9 May 2013 17:34 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

Couple more keepers in the gallery, but this mite deserves special recognition:

Microscope studies showed that, inside each impregnated female, her own eggs hatch a brood consisting of some half-dozen sisters and a single male. As the brood develops, the lone male copulates with his sisters; by this time, mom has died. By the time the sisters are old enough to chew through her body and reproduce anew, the male's job is done, and he dies soon afterwards. Sometimes he never even crawls outside, spending the entirety of life inside mom.

― Ou sont les Sonneywolferines d'antan? (Leee), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 03:49 (twelve years ago)

i know a guy like that.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 04:02 (twelve years ago)

the wasp one is amazing

― 乒乓, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 11:31 (twelve years ago)

Weird animals, now with smackdown of idiot Republicans!

Ostrea puelchana is a South American oyster with a reproductive strategy known as rhythmic successive hermphroditism. Larvae settle and, after about a year, become sexualy mature males. Then, as they continue to develop, they turn into hermaphrodites. Finally, they end their several year life as females.
...
If the spoonworm larvae lands on the seafloor it becomes female and begins to secrete a potent toxin called bonellin. Should the larvae come in contact with this toxin, it will be masculinized and sucked into the spoonworm’s body through her feeding proboscis, where it will be absorbed into her genital sac and spend the rest of its life producing sperm.

― Ou sont les Sonneywolferines d'antan? (Leee), Sunday, 9 June 2013 05:26 (twelve years ago)

bats are pretty weird

― Treeship, Sunday, 9 June 2013 05:46 (twelve years ago)

"If you think about it, that's like having your urethra melting your penis," says Kelly.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/06/how-chickens-lost-their-penises-ducks-kept-theirs/

― Ou sont les Sonneywolferines d'antan? (Leee), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 15:43 (twelve years ago)

the links at the end of that are so good

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/13/the-alligator-has-a-permanently-erect-bungee-penis/

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:26 (twelve years ago)

Weird Animals

― Ou sont les Sonneywolferines d'antan? (Leee), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 05:25 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/files/2013/06/Croatobranchus-mestrovi.jpg

White, subterranean leeches.

― Mike Foucault (Leee), Sunday, 30 June 2013 01:22 (twelve years ago)

that is kind of cute. it seems like it could be a pokemon.

― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Sunday, 30 June 2013 01:30 (twelve years ago)

Funny you should say that, there's already a cartoon tee shirt.

(Ace d/n btw.)

― Mike Foucault (Leee), Sunday, 30 June 2013 01:40 (twelve years ago)

thanks Leee. i like your display name too. i was just explaining madness and civilization to people at dinner but i don't think they were listening.

i like the t-shirt but i don't think i am going to get one.

― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Sunday, 30 June 2013 01:46 (twelve years ago)

You just gave me an idea.

― Stateleee, plump Carey Mulligan (Leee), Sunday, 30 June 2013 04:37 (twelve years ago)

i am imagining that display name as a really mean caption for an unflattering photo of Carey Mulligan in OK! magazine or some other celebrity tabloid.

― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Sunday, 30 June 2013 04:56 (twelve years ago)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/86a3bd6344d460f399adbb21cf056f5e/tumblr_mp9xi8oAT41spgl94o1_500.jpg

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 08:04 (twelve years ago)

courtesy of another ilxor, who posted it to facebook:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/files/2012/06/Pyura_chilensis.jpeg

Despite appearances, this is not some kind of cruelly bisected alien stone organism or a tomato thunderegg. This is Pyura chilensis, a sea creature that lives on the rocky coast of Chile and Peru. And if (like me, very recently) you’ve never seen one of these before, you’ll probably be interested to know that in Chile, they are fished commercially, and the locals eat them raw or cooked with salad and rice because apparently they’re delicious.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2012/06/21/pyura-chilensis-the-closest-thing-to-getting-blood-from-a-stone/

― just1n3, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 03:36 (twelve years ago)

video left me a little traumatized

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot-_xTDJgVI

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 03:50 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

The obvious question remains: How can a worm remember things after losing its head?
“We have no idea,” Levin admitted.

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/16/decapitated-worms-regrow-heads-keep-old-memories/

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 25 July 2013 03:33 (twelve years ago)

YES.

― Louie Althusser (Leee), Thursday, 25 July 2013 03:34 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

Great spider gallery: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/weirdest-spiders-ever/

― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 03:55 (twelve years ago)

Also the butcher bird: http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2013/07/30/the-macabre-habits-of-the-butcher-bird/

― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 03:57 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2428971/Is-beautiful-squid-world-Underwater-photographers-incredible-pictures-capture-amazing-colours-bobtail-squid.html

― 乒乓, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 13:47 (twelve years ago)

Not clicking Daily Mail link, even for weird animals. So apologies if this is the same:

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/cookie-monster-of-the-sea-photographed-off-curacao/

http://cdn.grindtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/MH_NGIC0610_0183-Web.jpg

― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 13:58 (twelve years ago)

It doesn't actually look that much like the cookie monster, but it is cute.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 13:58 (twelve years ago)

non daily mail link here http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/09/brilliant-photos-of-the-bobtail-squid/

― 乒乓, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 14:03 (twelve years ago)

Thanks, d. That squid is trippy.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 14:10 (twelve years ago)

Gossamer spiders are best known for their bizarre “ballooning” stunts, but it’s only this week that we’ve learned how they pull them off.
They disperse by spinning strands of silk into the open air, which allows them to float through the atmosphere miles above the surface of the earth and out to sea far beyond the reach of land.
These 8-legged kites can apparently survive 25 days without food during their aeronautical journeys.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2013/09/23/ballooning-spiders-fly-without-wind/

― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Friday, 27 September 2013 04:13 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

Who'd have thunk that Birds of Paradise would be weird?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYbn9R11Rrs#action=share

More here: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/birds-of-paradise-videos/?pid=12691&viewall=true

― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Saturday, 12 October 2013 00:58 (twelve years ago)

the oarfish!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24620755

http://i.imgur.com/2gzVedJ.jpg

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 13:17 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/o3TR5lw.jpg

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 13:29 (twelve years ago)

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/giant-oarfish-found-california-coast-article-1.1491007

― steames artpop (how's life), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 13:31 (twelve years ago)

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2013/10/600-grey-goblin.gif

More interestingness here: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/absurd-creature-goblin-shark/

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:20 (twelve years ago)

love the expression on the little fish's face

― diarmuid o'gallus (imago), Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:21 (twelve years ago)

lol

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:23 (twelve years ago)

The Sarcastic Fringehead
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FyGI7lEKbiE/T7JmGzamSKI/AAAAAAAACXM/fCAPENewbTQ/s1600/sarcastic_fringehead.jpg

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:31 (twelve years ago)

― diarmuid o'gallus (imago), Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:34 (twelve years ago)

that's not fair

― diarmuid o'gallus (imago), Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:35 (twelve years ago)

When two fringeheads have a territorial battle, they wrestle by pressing their distended mouths against each other, as if they were kissing. This allows them to determine which is the larger fish, which establishes dominance.

wow

― 乒乓, Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:49 (twelve years ago)

is that purple thing its tongue?!

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Thursday, 31 October 2013 23:06 (twelve years ago)

More real animals that look like Pokemon:

http://api.ning.com/files/XlKvC0fcpC9Op*vPB*4bUWaoVA9UuN4lvcQ*aIfvEGBqLSHZAUl6ltEJd1I23bv-mrn5ohkM0Ut46XA3lLmfKQuiW*rE9wa3/6pinkfairyarmadillo.jpg

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Monday, 4 November 2013 23:00 (twelve years ago)

I mean, even its name: the Pink Fairy Armadillo.

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Monday, 4 November 2013 23:01 (twelve years ago)

Also, Irrawaddy Dolphin sez hi:

http://api.ning.com/files/XlKvC0fcpC8kOn7YijIqSYSLsdCEUhF7m6MWKngsovpL2mh8BkaGTbn*SfjFqd-Izt1mVRtePcab7cPiuFU8AADDDzhtFCGO/18irrawaddydolphin2.jpg

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Monday, 4 November 2013 23:09 (twelve years ago)

very important, both of those

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:50 (twelve years ago)

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/files/2013/11/Sea_slug_head_penetration-990x742.jpg

Newly discovered species of sea slugs doin it in each others' heads:

Every individual is a hermaphrodite with both male and female genitals. When they have sex, they can simultaneously penetrate each other, with penises that extend to their whole body length. “They are relatively well-endowed, says Lange.
The penises are also forked. One branch ends in a cone-shaped structure called the penile bulb, which is ringed by small spines. It goes inside the partner’s female genital opening, and delivers sperm. The other branch ends in a fiendish spine called the penile stylet. It stabs straight into the partner’s forehead, and pumps fluid from the prostate gland. So, during sex, each slug gets a dose of sperm in the usual place, and an injection of prostate fluid just above its eyes. This goes on for just over 40 minutes.

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 14 November 2013 21:05 (twelve years ago)

aw yeah

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Thursday, 14 November 2013 21:06 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/2nyDxBJ.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange-peel_doris

― 乒乓, Sunday, 17 November 2013 22:46 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnkO46VLCYo

Cryptozoologists + viral marketing experts please advise

― 乒乓, Monday, 18 November 2013 02:25 (twelve years ago)

Looks like a very sick upside down whale

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Monday, 18 November 2013 03:50 (twelve years ago)

ffs :(

― imago, Monday, 18 November 2013 04:27 (twelve years ago)

Dying Animals

― imago, Monday, 18 November 2013 04:27 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/g0EwKz3.gif

― 乒乓, Friday, 22 November 2013 13:03 (twelve years ago)

is it trying to flip over? what is it doing?

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 22 November 2013 15:07 (twelve years ago)

A bad human has placed it on its back and it doesn't know what to do

― 乒乓, Friday, 22 November 2013 15:15 (twelve years ago)

those flaps are gills iirc

― clouds, Friday, 22 November 2013 15:15 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/BnWhKH7.jpg

― 乒乓, Friday, 22 November 2013 15:30 (twelve years ago)

poor thing :(

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 22 November 2013 16:08 (twelve years ago)

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c5/e4/e5/c5e4e582bd97d8d0c0a5a8fe05cabf9c.jpg

― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 November 2013 17:39 (twelve years ago)

horseshoe crabs are awesome and their blood (which is bright blue) is worth more per gallon than (fact-checkers plz insert expensive liquid here) because it is used in gram stain tests

</half-remembered Facts4U articles I probably just read on ILX anyway>

― not a player-hater i just hate a lot (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 22 November 2013 21:12 (twelve years ago)

to hell with all these creatures

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 22 November 2013 21:28 (twelve years ago)

Turning this into the general zoology thread on ILX

http://i.imgur.com/SvRRGuQ.jpg

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 21:36 (twelve years ago)

Nessie, is that you?

― emil.y, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 21:39 (twelve years ago)

aiaiaiagh!!!!

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:19 (twelve years ago)

http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/an-amazing-image-of-the-elusive-big-fin-squid/

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 30 November 2013 21:44 (twelve years ago)

Note the positive acceleration of the archerfish's spitwad:

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2013/11/archerfish-spitting.gif

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/archerfish-physics/

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 23:01 (twelve years ago)

Some sharks are warm-blooded: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/education/questions/biology.html#blooded

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 23:56 (twelve years ago)

Monotremes (e.g. platypuses and echidnas) don't have stomachs: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/03/how-the-platypus-and-a-quarter-of-fishes-lost-their-stomachs/

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 00:38 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/6JJ2HMR.jpg

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/08/bizarre-mystery-fish-identified-freshwater-species-of-the-week/

― 乒乓, Friday, 6 December 2013 15:12 (twelve years ago)

Good gods, that looks like it came straight from the Paleozoic.

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Friday, 6 December 2013 18:00 (twelve years ago)

a searobin!

― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 December 2013 19:06 (twelve years ago)

it looks like a head without a body

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 6 December 2013 19:34 (twelve years ago)

a motherf***er with some dark secrets

― brownie, Friday, 6 December 2013 19:57 (twelve years ago)

The Pacific leaping blenny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN0WukC0p1M#action=share

It lives its adult life out of water, hopping between rocks and breathing through its skin as well as gills. It relies on splashes from waves to stay wet, but it rarely—or never—goes for a swim.

The blenny is a fish.

http://inkfish.fieldofscience.com/2013/12/leaping-land-fish-has-perfect.html

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:51 (twelve years ago)

After three days, Morgans and Ord returned to their fake fish. If the props were nicked, punctured, or had bites taken out of them, the scientists assumed predators had come by. They saw that predators attacked blennies on the sand much more often than those on the rocks.

The blennies on the sand are those who have strayed from Christ, yo

― veneer timber (imago), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:55 (twelve years ago)

We remember the Barreleye Fish, right? Transparent head?

The dark spots you see above the fish’s mouth are actually capsules housing the fish’s olfactory organs, much like our nostrils. The real eyes, which are marked by green spherical lenses, are tremendously light sensitive, and protected by fluid within the shield.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9o4VnfHJU&feature=player_embedded

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 19 December 2013 01:00 (twelve years ago)

Ah yes the brain fish

― 乒乓, Thursday, 19 December 2013 01:02 (twelve years ago)

That thing is insane.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 19 December 2013 01:34 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.nuestromar.org/noticias/categorias/11-12-13/espeluznante-criatura-hallada-en-ant-rtida

http://i.imgur.com/vr1Rjku.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gNa2Dog.jpg

― 龜, Thursday, 2 January 2014 18:14 (twelve years ago)

/shivers

― Matt Groening is MY Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 2 January 2014 18:15 (twelve years ago)

i can't read spanish - how do i avoid this thing?

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 2 January 2014 18:22 (twelve years ago)

don't go to antarctica.

― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 January 2014 18:26 (twelve years ago)

*feverishly cancels vacation plans*

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 2 January 2014 18:51 (twelve years ago)

http://www.oneringzero.com/unusualcreatures/images/creatures2_20.jpg

From awesome all-illustrated Unusual Creatures book I gave to my 6 year old this Xmas.

http://unusualcreatures.com/

They also have a series of all-weird-instruments songs for their unusual creatures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc0DDSuLegA

― Plasmon, Friday, 3 January 2014 01:49 (twelve years ago)

That's awesome

― 龜, Friday, 3 January 2014 13:55 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

New kind of jellyfish discovered. Looks like someone was sick on the beach:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26062303

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 6 February 2014 12:40 (twelve years ago)

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72789000/jpg/_72789866_jf.jpg

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 6 February 2014 12:41 (twelve years ago)

Disgusting!

― eeeLastica (Leee), Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:08 (twelve years ago)

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/leech-can-survive-24-hour-submersion-liquid-nitrogen

Every single leech placed in -130°F (-90°C) storage survived for nine months. In other words, these leeches can easily survive at temperatures lower than those ever measured by a thermometer on Earth, for as long as it takes to conceive and give birth to a human child. Some of the leeches survived at this temperature for 32 months, or more than 2.5 years.

― eeeLastica (Leee), Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:09 (twelve years ago)

The Praya dubia, or Giant Siphonophore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praya_dubia): 40-50m long marine "animal" made up of thousands of individual animals
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Dnaxl_N5E8A/TIU_Df1zwlI/AAAAAAAAAAs/Nq_Z98Jw90w/s640/praya-dubia.jpg

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 February 2014 23:54 (twelve years ago)

That second one is unreal -- is it actually that big, or is there some optical illusion going on??

― eeeLastica (Leee), Friday, 7 February 2014 01:47 (eleven years ago)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/files/2014/01/balloon-lumpsuckers.jpg

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2014/01/27/lumpsucker-fish-just-when-you-thought-the-ocean-couldnt-get-more-lumpy-and-adhesive/

Other than looking like swollen eyeballs… with eyeballs… lumpsuckers have some pretty strange things going on. For one, they’re pretty awful swimmers, thanks to their round bodies and tiny fins, and when disturbed they tend to flap around aimlessly in different directions. Which is not how escape generally happens. As newly hatched larvae they are surprisingly well developed, equipped with a fully functional mouth and well-developed digestive system. This allows them to begin feeding on tiny crustaceans and fish just 10 days after hatching. Sometimes they’ll resort to eating each other because nature.

― eeeLastica (Leee), Friday, 7 February 2014 01:48 (eleven years ago)

siphonophore are insane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT1TSbarW1U

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 February 2014 02:09 (eleven years ago)

They actually get that big--apparently people have been warned not to try swimming through the tube, as they might get stuck and drown.

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Friday, 7 February 2014 02:39 (eleven years ago)

The siphonophore is some At the Mountains of Madness shit.

― NO GODS, NO MUSTARD (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 7 February 2014 05:15 (eleven years ago)

I would say the Portuguese man o war is the weirdest creature (creatures) on earth

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:29 (eleven years ago)

https://healthcarecenters.martinspoint.org/doctors-and-providers/maine/brunswick-bowdoin/~/media/Images/Global/220x90/hcc_become_patient.jpg?mh=90&mw=220

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:48 (eleven years ago)

http://www.pakalertpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/15-Modern-Sea-Monsters-Photos-And-Video.jpg

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 7 February 2014 21:07 (eleven years ago)

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/11/27/15-modern-sea-monsters-photos-and-video/

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 7 February 2014 21:16 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

Say hello to the roundworm Pristionchus pacificus. Executive summary:

- Prevents itself from maturing beyond a hardy larval stage while it lives on a host scarab beetle.
- When the beetle dies, the larvae eat the carcass.
- They are microorganisms, but they can form a tower of worms that's visible to the naked eye. A TOWER OF WORMS.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/06/a-thousand-worms-merge-into-a-living-tower/

― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Friday, 14 March 2014 22:36 (eleven years ago)

great find and an all time url

― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 March 2014 23:07 (eleven years ago)

Amazing and horrible. Also, oddly reminiscent of World War Z:

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/6/20/11/anigif_enhanced-buzz-1381-1371743821-17.gif

― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 14 March 2014 23:12 (eleven years ago)

Leee did you see this cool parasite?? http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/03/parasitic-junk-trunk

― 龜, Friday, 14 March 2014 23:48 (eleven years ago)

Totally! I have your entomology thread bookmarked!

― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Saturday, 15 March 2014 01:15 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo

― 龜, Saturday, 29 March 2014 02:44 (eleven years ago)

http://imgur.com/c8B1VZG

― 龜, Saturday, 29 March 2014 02:45 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/JbVtUfi.jpg

― 龜, Saturday, 29 March 2014 02:45 (eleven years ago)

"Five minutes to showtime Ms Henderson"

― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 March 2014 15:35 (eleven years ago)

Jesus. Help.

― emil.y, Saturday, 29 March 2014 19:37 (eleven years ago)

http://www.purocoffee.com/tl_files/puro_2012/news/potoo_baby2.jpg

― emil.y, Saturday, 29 March 2014 19:37 (eleven years ago)

Half gecko half owl half god's greatest mistake.

― Des Esseintes in Walmart (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 29 March 2014 21:27 (eleven years ago)

http://i57.tinypic.com/2h6d0xw.jpg

― Des Esseintes in Walmart (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 29 March 2014 21:28 (eleven years ago)

god apparently actually quite proud of the potoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9J_KCYajUU

― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 March 2014 22:27 (eleven years ago)

Thought that was going to be about this at first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo

But can that is one word bird, half gecko half owl is perfect description.

― Leeee with three E's with 3 spelled out (Leee), Sunday, 30 March 2014 04:43 (eleven years ago)

should really be pot-9-o, no?

― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 30 March 2014 04:47 (eleven years ago)

http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/cthulhus-pet-giant-isopod-25-feet-found-attached-to-underwater-robot.html

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:46 (eleven years ago)

Isopods make me >_<;;

― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:51 (eleven years ago)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mutant-chicken-grows-alli/

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:51 (eleven years ago)

holy shit at megaisopod

― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Monday, 31 March 2014 21:33 (eleven years ago)

http://news.discovery.com/animals/sea-snake-dries-to-a-crisp-before-rehydrating-140318.htm

― 龜, Thursday, 3 April 2014 01:13 (eleven years ago)

megaisopod slightly disappointing after seeing that url.

― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 3 April 2014 01:34 (eleven years ago)

http://news.discovery.com/animals/sea-snake-dries-to-a-crisp-before-rehydrating-140318.htm
― 龜, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 6:13 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nice! The yellow-bellied sea snakes is v v pretty.

― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:48 (eleven years ago)

Adventures in mosquito research:

Only female mosquitoes drink blood, and they use proteins in their meals to make the shells of their eggs. But they also need mating partners, and A. dirus are as finicky about sex as they are about food. Andolina used to have to force-mate them.
To begin: decapitate a male, and anaesthetise a female with ether. Next, unite the two by inserting the male’s still-protruding genitals into his unconscious partner. Get it right and the two insects (or one-and-a-half insects) lock together, sperm is transferred, and the female becomes pregnant. Andolina first learned to do this without a microscope. It took steady hands.

― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:50 (eleven years ago)

http://snakesarelong.blogspot.com/2014/03/why-do-snakes-have-two-penises.html?m=1

(Post features all the snake penis photos you could possibly want.)

― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Friday, 4 April 2014 21:04 (eleven years ago)

Are you tired of mere static images of oarfish? And dead oarfish at that? Then behold video footage of live oarfish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xWaQ5E07yk

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 11 April 2014 00:42 (eleven years ago)

honestly never seen a live one so that's pretty dope.

― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 April 2014 05:31 (eleven years ago)

URL sez it all: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/04/17/in-brazilian-cave-insects-females-have-the-penis/

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:46 (eleven years ago)

The, ehhem, nut grafs:

When Neotrogla get busy, the female climbs on top of the male and inserts her penis-like structure, called a gynosome, into the male in order to receive sperm capsules. Once the pair is locked together, they’ll copulate for a marathon baby-making session of 40 to 70 hours.
However, the act is about more than just reproduction. Food is scarce in the caves that Neotrogla call home, and male sperm capsules double as a nutritious meal for females. Researchers believe females compete with each other to literally capture males and steal their seminal gifts.
And capture is an accurate way to describe Neotrogla intercourse. Once inside the male, the female’s gynosome inflates and spiky structures on the organ anchor the two creatures together. When researchers once attempted to pry apart a mating pair, the male’s abdomen was ripped from the thorax, but the genital coupling remained intact.

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:49 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1FoOa8VA0c

― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 April 2014 05:57 (eleven years ago)

Mammals -- and their genitalia -- can be weird too!

http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2009/09/25/friday-weird-science-the-hyena-mating-game/

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Monday, 21 April 2014 22:39 (eleven years ago)

FLOATING OOD HEAD:

https://24.media.tumblr.com/58ce8e7f63173af56b4bff0b6eb6e945/tumblr_n4wn7aHyPW1qm9k25o2_500.jpg

AKA Japetella octopus: http://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/84435959998/now-on-exhibit-two-rare-deep-sea-cephalopods-we

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:06 (eleven years ago)

Two species that aren't weird in themselves -- more like one in the other:

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/last-supper-centipede-dies-eating-way-out-snake-belly-n80071

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 23:10 (eleven years ago)

Happy Monday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mktMxLrU8rA&noredirect=1

(Leaving that unembedded because.)

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Monday, 19 May 2014 18:45 (eleven years ago)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2639831/The-alien-backyard-Researchers-sea-creature-unique-brain-regrow-four-days.html

― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:44 (eleven years ago)

Nice!

In other convergent evolution news: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/05/22/the-surprising-closest-relative-of-the-huge-elephant-birds/

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 20:32 (eleven years ago)

And a nice bookend to a subthread from this thread's early days.

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 20:38 (eleven years ago)

http://i58.tinypic.com/23tsccm.jpg
Snake!?

http://i61.tinypic.com/zk04sk.jpg
Caterpillar!

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/caterpillar-appears-snake-camouflage/

― Vera said that?! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 30 May 2014 05:28 (eleven years ago)

Wow, A+.

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 30 May 2014 16:24 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_kwUPi41Mc
bonus monkey island ii music

― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 May 2014 16:53 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJwGpZ38JHE

Strong Clark Ashton Smith vibes.

― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 20 June 2014 07:33 (eleven years ago)

Was thinking it was a shower curtain and then it started to light up.

Octopus ghost? Potential shoggoth?

― the apostrophe is the most sensitive part of the d*ck (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 20 June 2014 07:55 (eleven years ago)

http://deepseanews.com/2012/05/solving-the-mystery-of-the-placental-jellyfish/

― the apostrophe is the most sensitive part of the d*ck (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 20 June 2014 07:59 (eleven years ago)

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/10/the-barnacle-that-eats-glowing-sharks/

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 00:52 (eleven years ago)

Aw man that is the best and also the cutest

― 龜, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 01:02 (eleven years ago)

Hoopoe nestlings can defend themselves by squirting streams of faeces at intruders and, unlike other birds, they don’t clean their waste from their nests.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/27/the-bird-that-paints-its-eggs-with-bacteria/

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 01:07 (eleven years ago)

Disgusting but fascinating.

― the asterisk is the most sensitive part of the d*ck (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 03:25 (eleven years ago)

In what might be considered a mixed message outside of the ichthyology world, scientists have named a new species of cavefish after the Indiana University Hoosiers. It’s blind, has its anus behind its head, and distinguishes itself from its nearest relative by being a little fatter.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2014/06/03/scientist-names-newly-discovered-blind-fish-with-neck-anus-after-his-alma-mater/#.U43KkxaCtbw

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:45 (eleven years ago)

Not so much weird animal as idiot human: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/man_who_thought_he_was_slapping_an_opossum_actually_slapped_a_porcupine

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:57 (eleven years ago)

To fully appreciate how bizarre Hydra is, put yourself in its shoes. Imagine you’re a Hydra, and you’re slowly being torn apart. Cell by tiny cell you are disassembled, and in the end nothing is left of you but a soup of your own bits, smeared on the bottom of a bowl. But you’re not dead, and you’re not going to be.

http://deepseanews.com/2014/06/this-animal-can-be-torn-apart-and-will-come-back-together-again/

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 20:24 (eleven years ago)

You're doing god's work here, Leee.'

Wonder how Hydra compares and contrasts with other self-organizing collectives (coral, ants, bees).

http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/slapsdfsdfsdfsdfdsf.jpg

Are Brazilian porcupines usually bright yellow or did they dye this one to match the Seleção?

― Plasmon, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 23:16 (eleven years ago)

a hydra irl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6iEuULff44

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 23:27 (eleven years ago)

Thanks, Plas! I love this stuff, not a bit of work.

re: Hydras, the link explains that individuals actually share living tissue with each other (not just physically connected, but also sharing the same stomach), whereas individuals in ant superorganisms are of course not connected to each other.

Cursory GIS for Brazilian porcupines suggests that they're not bright yellow.

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 23:33 (eleven years ago)

Principles of Hydra self-organization remind me a bit of organogenesis in embryology. A few chief cells gradually organizing a much larger pool of pluripotent cells. In humans, it's the loss of pluripotency that prevents regrowth (but allows quite a bit wider range of developmental targets than in Hydra).

Googling shows me others have made the same point: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012160606014308

― Plasmon, Thursday, 10 July 2014 00:28 (eleven years ago)

Also found another recent example of someone attacked by yellow Brazilian porcupine quills (add "yellow" to the GIS):

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1568646/thumbs/o-SANDRA-NABUCCO-PORCUPINE-QUILLS-IN-HEAD-570.jpg
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/17/porcupine-embeds-brazilian-woman-sandra-nabuccos-head-with-200-quills-pictures_n_4616922.html

And wiki has this porcupine quill headband, made by the indigenous Witoto people of southern Colombia and northern Peru:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Headband%2C_porcupine_quills%2C_Witoto_people_-_South_American_objects_in_the_American_Museum_of_Natural_History_-_DSC06070.JPG/320px-Headband%2C_porcupine_quills%2C_Witoto_people_-_South_American_objects_in_the_American_Museum_of_Natural_History_-_DSC06070.JPG

― Plasmon, Thursday, 10 July 2014 00:33 (eleven years ago)

Then there's someone on Etsy dying porcupine quills canary yellow: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/129943063/premieum-canary-yellow-porcupine-quills

And a "Awesome Black and Yellow Tanned Porcupine,Ready for mounting": http://www.taxidermy.net/forum/index.php?topic=302001.0

I don't know what to think anymore.

― Plasmon, Thursday, 10 July 2014 00:37 (eleven years ago)

http://i62.tinypic.com/2195r2r.jpg

Red phase African Bush Viper.

Or a red dragon hatchling. Your choice.

― the asterisk is the most sensitive part of the d*ck (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 11 July 2014 08:39 (eleven years ago)

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/07/09/placenta-evolution-and-a-sexual-cold-war/

Mammals only evolved placentas once. But the [fishy wishies] have evolved these organs on at least eight separate occasions, and in a very short span of time. “The placenta is a very complex organ. Imagine if the eye evolved several times in the hominids. It’s that kind of complexity,” says Bart Pollux from the University of California, Riverside.

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Monday, 21 July 2014 22:39 (eleven years ago)

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/the-blood-harvest/284078/

;_; Poor lil' dudes

― 龜, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 23:17 (eleven years ago)

Oy, yeah! I propose going back to rabbits.

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 23:34 (eleven years ago)

Bleed 'em and eat 'em

― 龜, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 23:34 (eleven years ago)

i liked that new yorker piece:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/14/blue-bloods

― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 July 2014 01:57 (eleven years ago)

During my convalescence I'm getting acquainted with the charms of the Brain Scoop, which, granted isn't a weird animal per se.

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 00:09 (eleven years ago)

Well that's a relief, I was picturing a giant earwig with a big grapefruit spoon for a tail.

― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 03:01 (eleven years ago)

Emily Brain Scoop is amazing!!! xp

― StanM, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 08:09 (eleven years ago)

I just saw a clip of her saying "amazing" three times in two minutes, maybe that's why

― StanM, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 08:10 (eleven years ago)

i dug the wolf skinning video. vicarious experience yay.

― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 11:38 (eleven years ago)

Wolf skinning/dismembering videos were great.

― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 11:59 (eleven years ago)

I accidentally wound up seeing pictures of a sea mouse. Looks like some kind of alien parasite disguised as a toupee.

http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/20253

― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:05 (eleven years ago)

what a rad lil dude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhNGdnuFQYM

― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:40 (eleven years ago)

TINY!

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:49 (eleven years ago)

Are those power sockets on the floor? Cause that'd make him a tiny dude

― 龜, Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:57 (eleven years ago)

vent of some kind i think

― balls, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:12 (eleven years ago)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25983-detergent-treatment-turns-a-mouse-seethrough.html#.U9p0RPldWSp

transparent mouse

― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:53 (eleven years ago)

http://i59.tinypic.com/167qpme.jpg

― StanM, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:08 (eleven years ago)

The picture at the link is potentially disturbing if you are disturbed by boneless, skinless, transparent mice.

― carl agatha, Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:00 (eleven years ago)

This species of "Sir" Satanic leaf-tailed gecko just scratches the surface of awesome geckos:

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/42-33052978.jpg

MOAR: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/absurd-creature-of-the-week-satanic-leaf-tailed-gecko/

― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Saturday, 2 August 2014 00:22 (eleven years ago)

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/thousands-these-bizarre-blue-animals-wash-along-california-shores

http://i.imgur.com/Pa9tFRG.jpg

― 龜, Monday, 4 August 2014 17:39 (eleven years ago)

Flower hat jellyfish, maaaaaan:

http://deepseanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-18-at-12.11.31-PM.png

http://deepseanews.com/2014/07/outta-sight-jelly-babies-discovered-with-a-black-light/

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLEEE (Leee), Monday, 4 August 2014 17:47 (eleven years ago)

We need some (non-naked mole rat) mammals up in here, so, whales with internal antlers: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/07/31/do-beaked-whales-have-internal-antlers/

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLEEE (Leee), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 00:39 (eleven years ago)

In UNWEIRD developments:

Melanocetus johnsonii, along with the four other anglerfish that make up genus Melanocetus, don’t have parasitic males. Males of this genus are still significantly smaller and lack lures, but they retain their free-swimming lifestyle into adulthood, occasionally biting into the side of a much larger female for a temporary coupling, where gametes and food are exchanged. This temporary coupling, in which no tissue fusion takes place, has been observed only three times: once during the filming of the BBC Blue Planet documentary; once off the coast of Japan; and once, confusingly between a male Melanocetus johnsonii and a completely different species, Centrophryne spinulosa. In none of these instances was the connection permanent, and no reduced males have even been found attached to a Melanocetus.

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLEEE (Leee), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:25 (eleven years ago)

HUEG PENGU: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/08/12/extinct-mega-penguin-tall-as-person/

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLEEE (Leee), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 18:44 (eleven years ago)

Pretty:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/files/2014/08/young-boomslang.jpg

But don't get bitten by one: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2014/08/10/this-snakes-venom-makes-you-bleed-from-every-orifice-until-you-die/

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLEEE (Leee), Monday, 18 August 2014 19:32 (eleven years ago)

Interestingly, many bite victims report “seeing with a yellow tinge,” which may be due to bleeding inside the eyes.

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLEEE (Leee), Monday, 18 August 2014 19:35 (eleven years ago)

― 龜, Monday, 18 August 2014 19:38 (eleven years ago)

BOOMSLANG
this is a great DJ name too
first album could be "seeing with a yellow tinge"

― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 August 2014 19:38 (eleven years ago)

Interestingly, many bite victims report “seeing with a yellow tinge,” which may be due to bleeding inside the eyes.
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLEEE (Leee), Monday, August 18, 2014 1:35 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthopsia

Blood in the retina usually looks dark, like a shadow, blood in the vitreous (the jellied eyeball itself) looks red.

Sodium channel blockade produces yellow vision by affecting cone function. Many neurotoxins produce this effect.

Famously (for doctors), digitalis / digoxin treatment, especially in overdose, can produce yellow vision.

― Plasmon, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 05:11 (eleven years ago)

Meanwhile Viagra can produce cyanopsia (blue-tinged or -haloed vision).

themoreyouknow.gif

― Plasmon, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 05:12 (eleven years ago)

Thanks for the correction, Plas!

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLEEE (Leee), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:50 (eleven years ago)

https://31.media.tumblr.com/927b985287cd92d54558166776248eef/tumblr_nao4mxBFeC1qm9k25o2_500.gif

http://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/95559080028/plankton-of-the-world-beware-while-most

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLEEE (Leee), Saturday, 23 August 2014 17:25 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qQcM9yytSI#t=30

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/08/22/blackbird-unleashes-hell-golden-gate-park/

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLEEE (Leee), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 22:09 (eleven years ago)

ha ha that bird got them good

― Number None, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 23:18 (eleven years ago)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/2014/08/27/dumbo-octopus-gives-rare-view-video-2/

― 龜, Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:19 (eleven years ago)

♥

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLEEE (Leee), Friday, 29 August 2014 20:16 (eleven years ago)

On mites:

The mites have this helpful habit where they… er… have no anus and never poo. Instead, they release a lifetime’s worth of waste when they die.

Face mites, to be specific.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/08/27/you-almost-certainly-have-mites-on-your-face/

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLEEE (Leee), Friday, 29 August 2014 20:17 (eleven years ago)

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/absurd-creature-of-the-week-the-bird-that-builds-nests-so-huge-they-pull-down-trees/?mbid=social_twitter

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/172598779edit-660x439.jpg

― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 20:29 (eleven years ago)

For its size (and lack of opposable thumbs) though, Africa’s incredible social weaver surely comes close. These birds, about the size of the sparrows here in the States, come together in colonies of as many as 500 individuals to build by far the most enormous nests on Earth, at more than 2,000 pounds and 20 feet long by 13 feet wide by 7 feet thick. The structures are so big they can collapse the trees they’re built in, and so well-constructed they can last for a century, according to Gavin Leighton, a biologist at the University of Miami. Occupying as many as 100 chambers, these are quite possibly the biggest vertebrate societies centered around a single structure—outside of human beings and their skyscrapers, of course.

― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 20:30 (eleven years ago)

that is REALLY interesting!

― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 21:38 (eleven years ago)

I'm posting this without having read it and hoping that the name of the animal -- Hallucigenia -- bears out its weirdness.

http://theconversation.com/the-worlds-weirdest-creature-finds-descendants-in-cuddly-velvet-worms-30438

― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 21:44 (eleven years ago)

given that it looks like an MC Escher sketch, ahma say "yes"
http://62e528761d0685343e1c-f3d1b99a743ffa4142d9d7f1978d9686.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/files/56615/width668/4jhzkpk2-1408108417.jpg

― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 21:46 (eleven years ago)

http://62e528761d0685343e1c-f3d1b99a743ffa4142d9d7f1978d9686.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/files/56615/width668/4jhzkpk2-1408108417.jpg

― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 21:47 (eleven years ago)

https://twitter.com/Strange_Animals

― 龜, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 01:08 (eleven years ago)

https://www.google.com/search?q=black+rain+frog&tbm=isch

Black rain frog is the best google image search

http://i.imgur.com/Bal6dIR.jpg

― 龜, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 14:21 (eleven years ago)

♥

― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:35 (eleven years ago)

Probably dying from that frog-killing fungus though.

― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:36 (eleven years ago)

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/08/when-your-preys-in-a-hole-and-you-dont-have-a-pole-use-a-moray/

In which a fish does as well as a chimp in a collaborative problem-solving test.

― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:38 (eleven years ago)

fish: smart enough to collaborate and choose an ideal collaborator. not smart enough to tell the difference between a real fish and a plastic cut-out.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 September 2014 02:39 (eleven years ago)

lol.

― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Friday, 12 September 2014 03:44 (eleven years ago)

Made me think of the Portia hunting spider, which has a tiny little brain but does really complicated thinking by using its brain one way, "saving" the result, reconfiguring its brain, doing more claculating, "saving" the result again, reconfiguring its brain again, etc etc, until it solves a difficult problem.

http://www.minibeastwildlife.com.au/Portia.htm
http://www.rifters.com/real/2009/01/iterating-towards-bethlehem.html

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Friday, 12 September 2014 04:48 (eleven years ago)

the pic is great:
http://www.minibeastwildlife.com.au/Portia%20on%20stem%20350.jpg
"not sure if intelligent, or dumb"

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 September 2014 05:24 (eleven years ago)

there's sadness behind those eyes

― shower cretin (brownie), Friday, 12 September 2014 12:18 (eleven years ago)

Must be a Cleveland sports fan.

― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Friday, 12 September 2014 16:11 (eleven years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/28838200

Ostracods are one of the ocean-living animals which give off light when they are disturbed.
[...]
When an ostracod is swallowed, it emits a burst of light, making the cardinal fish spit it out.

― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Monday, 22 September 2014 21:17 (eleven years ago)

my ostracod don't want none unless you got bursts of light hon

― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 September 2014 22:07 (eleven years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027f9q0

― 龜, Saturday, 27 September 2014 18:46 (eleven years ago)

thanks for giving me nightmares for the week

― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 September 2014 18:52 (eleven years ago)

OMFG THAT IS AWESOME.

/barfs

― cichleee suite (Leee), Sunday, 28 September 2014 04:14 (eleven years ago)

I can just about fap to that

― tsrobodo, Sunday, 28 September 2014 21:25 (eleven years ago)

Docking in the animal kingdom

― sink floyd (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 29 September 2014 02:09 (eleven years ago)

Pink fairy armadillo

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/images_blogs/wiredscience/2013/12/C.jpg

― goth colouring book (anagram), Monday, 29 September 2014 07:15 (eleven years ago)

!!!

― the late great, Monday, 29 September 2014 07:19 (eleven years ago)

http://gawker.com/ever-see-a-whale-eat-a-shark-1640134129

― 龜, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 20:27 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/4Fe33Dd.gif

― 龜, Saturday, 4 October 2014 16:36 (eleven years ago)

As adults, the weevils use their microbes for one very specific purpose: to mass-produce the building blocks they need to create their hard outer shells. This takes a week. After that, the shells are secure and the bacteria have outlived their usefulness.
So the weevil kills them.
It packages them up, breaks them down, and recycles their molecules for its own use. Their existence is a loan, and the weevil eventually demands repayment.

Cold! http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/25/lessons-from-nature-recycle-allies-that-stop-being-useful/

― cichleee suite (Leee), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 20:24 (eleven years ago)

https://33.media.tumblr.com/746b595d9d441579741e69eac5a711d2/tumblr_ndk7blzHsr1qm9k25o3_400.jpg

― My Life with the Thrillho Kult (Leee), Friday, 17 October 2014 18:45 (eleven years ago)

Or rather:

https://33.media.tumblr.com/746b595d9d441579741e69eac5a711d2/tumblr_ndk7blzHsr1qm9k25o3_400.jpg

― My Life with the Thrillho Kult (Leee), Friday, 17 October 2014 18:46 (eleven years ago)

File under, "Thug Animals":

On an Argentinian lake in November of 1981, Gary Nuechterlein witnessed a rather disturbing avian assault. A male steamer duck bit and held tight to the neck of another duck called a shoveler, while pummeling the victim with the keratinized knobs on its wings. Meanwhile, “several meters away,” Nuechterlein later wrote in a paper, “a female steamer duck displayed excitedly, calling and stretching” her neck to the sky, as if egging him on.
More absurd creatures:
10-Foot Bobbit Worm Is Ocean’s Most Disturbing Predator
The Ferocious Bug That Sucks Prey Dry and Wears Their Corpses
This Marsupial Has Marathon Sex Until It Goes Blind and Drops Dead
From time to time the steamer would drag the shoveler under, then resurface and continue beating the tar out of it as the female watched. At one point he shuffled over to her, but after 30 seconds returned to his victim and punched the poor critter 15 to 20 more times. “He then released the limp body of the shoveler,” wrote Nuechterlein, “pecked at it, and released it again.” At last he returned to the female for good, calling to her while she stretched, and the two flew off together. The shoveler eventually regained consciousness, and though seriously crippled, struggled to shore. It died 15 minutes later.
...
And woe to any of the steamer’s avian neighbors that aren’t gifted with its bulk, because it could be that steamers are so persistently violent not only to chase other species away to reduce competition for their resources, but to make an example of someone. I’ll reiterate: These ducks have evolved mafia tactics. Says Nuechterlein in the paper describing the fight between the steamer and the shoveler: “Possibly observational learning is important, and holding a ‘public beating’ enhances the effectiveness of territorial displays.” And that, my friends, may be the only time “public beating” has ever appeared in a scientific paper.

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/absurd-creature-week-vicious-duck-beats-crap-anything-moves/

― My Life with the Thrillho Kult (Leee), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:22 (eleven years ago)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/files/2014/09/octopus-joshua-lambas.jpg

Joshua: This was a pretty exciting image to capture. It’s actually become one of my favourites over the years. When I first saw the [octopus] it was balled up very small and didn’t show the siphonophore tentacles at all. After the first flash of my strobes it unfurled its tentacles, changed colours and presented the the man o’ war tentacles you see in the photo. It was quite a surprise and almost like watching a flower blossom. It took me many years to track down someone that knew what the species was, as it had not been seen many times before. It very likely that it is using the tentacles as a defence against would be predators.

― My Life with the Thrillho Kult (Leee), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:35 (eleven years ago)

10-Foot Bobbit Worm Is Ocean’s Most Disturbing Predator
The Ferocious Bug That Sucks Prey Dry and Wears Their Corpses
This Marsupial Has Marathon Sex Until It Goes Blind and Drops Dead

― 龜, Friday, 24 October 2014 02:37 (eleven years ago)

http://deepseanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Rocha4.jpg

http://deepseanews.com/2014/10/interview-with-the-vampire-blennies/

― Big Orange Machine (Leee), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 19:51 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/7wbVOVe.gif

― 龜, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:37 (eleven years ago)

Is that a velvet worm?

― In Which Doctor Who Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time (Leee), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:52 (eleven years ago)

that's a cronenberg lipped nightmare is what that is

― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 November 2014 05:11 (eleven years ago)

Blue Velvet worm then.

― In Which Doctor Who Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time (Leee), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:33 (eleven years ago)

candycoloredclownfish

― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:42 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMUYyCSNsbs

― 龜, Friday, 5 December 2014 18:03 (eleven years ago)

That's not weird, that's gross. (I hate crustaceans.)

Meanwhile:

A fish swims in the Amazon, amid murky water and overgrown vegetation. It is concealed, but it’s not safe. Suddenly, two rapid bursts of electricity course through the water, activating the neurons that control the fish’s muscles. It twitches, giving away its position, and dooming itself. Now, it gets zapped by a continuous volley of electric pulses. All its muscles contract and its body stiffens. It can’t escape; it can’t even move. Its attacker—an electric eel—moves in for the kill.
The electric eel can (in)famously create its own electricity. More than four-fifths of its two-metre-long body consists of special battery-like cells, which can collectively deliver a jolt of up to 600 volts. But the way the eel uses that ability is even more shocking. Kenneth Catania from Vanderbilt University has found that this astonishing predator can use its electricity like a remote control, activating its prey’s muscles from afar. It effectively has a button that says “Reveal Yourself” and another that says “Freeze”.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/04/electric-eels-can-remotely-control-their-preys-muscles/

― TAKING SIDES: HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLEEE (Leee), Friday, 5 December 2014 21:26 (eleven years ago)

The evocatively named snot otter:

http://www.onearth.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_image/public/uploaded-files/5371066350_137cd71c92_b.jpg?itok=Ngx9LD5S

http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/snot-otter-sexy-times

― TAKING SIDES: HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLEEE (Leee), Monday, 8 December 2014 19:14 (eleven years ago)

http://youtu.be/IakXyq7zz5Y

― TAKING SIDES: HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLEEE (Leee), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:49 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBxsm5T2yN8
A new find at Mariana Trench: a fish that lives deeper in the ocean than anything else ever discovered

― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 December 2014 08:04 (eleven years ago)

Amazing! Pretty delicate looking for living at that depth. (I am not a fish biologist.)

― Pooja Bhatt's erotic thriller Jism 2 (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 19 December 2014 09:22 (eleven years ago)

I wonder what would happen to a fish used to that pressure if you took it to near the surface

― ogmor, Friday, 19 December 2014 16:40 (eleven years ago)

They'd probably just liquefy, no?

― carl agatha, Friday, 19 December 2014 17:17 (eleven years ago)

ok I looked it up apparently deep sea fish have 'swim bladders' to alter their buoyancy and the gas pressure as it comes to the surface would make it swell so much it would force the fish's stomach out of its mouth. apparently they have more fluid cell membranes and "ooze internally" and even suffer neurological damage if you bring them up. I hope this has been educational

― ogmor, Friday, 19 December 2014 18:27 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgDE2DOICuc

<3 <3 <3

― 龜, Thursday, 8 January 2015 13:07 (eleven years ago)

Cuttlefish are the best.

― pelvic slang (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:56 (eleven years ago)

They are super smart!

― carl agatha, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:07 (eleven years ago)

I'm probably smarter. Probably.

― Jeff, Friday, 9 January 2015 03:46 (eleven years ago)

Cuttlefish and octopuses are so awesome.

― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 22:00 (eleven years ago)

Infuriated male [sloths] try to hit each other when they are still distant by more than a metre and a half.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/24/sloths-and-armadillos-see-the-world-in-black-and-white/

― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 22:00 (eleven years ago)

http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/post/108081475537/hey-everyone-likes-spiders-right-well

― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 18:03 (eleven years ago)

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-alaskan-frozen-frogs-20140723-story.html
http://adlayasanimals.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/wood_frog_15.jpg

― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:26 (eleven years ago)

If you'll pardon the pun: Cool!

Plus:

I'm asking, what about the parasites and all the cool things that live in its mouth and its butt?

― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Sunday, 18 January 2015 20:39 (eleven years ago)

Sounds like a forks display name

― 龜, Sunday, 18 January 2015 20:51 (eleven years ago)

don't mind if i do

― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 January 2015 23:42 (eleven years ago)

― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Monday, 19 January 2015 00:24 (eleven years ago)

― 龜, Monday, 19 January 2015 00:28 (eleven years ago)

― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 January 2015 01:01 (eleven years ago)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/01/21/frilled-shark-sea-monster-caught-australia-coast/22099613/

― 龜, Thursday, 22 January 2015 04:59 (eleven years ago)

https://40.media.tumblr.com/c0b229d7df10a61f76576ea96d47c442/tumblr_nhu2eg99JW1qm9k25o1_540.jpg

More about this melted foot: http://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/108919850198/one-serious-snail-the-lewis-moon-snail-polinices

― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Friday, 23 January 2015 18:20 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/9veCkVJ.gif

― 龜, Monday, 26 January 2015 22:15 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_46e0SgYQE
marabou storks are trippy mang

― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 January 2015 07:47 (eleven years ago)

http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/post/110074480358/ooh-thats-a-nice-fish-evolution-oh-thanks

And make sure to click on that Flickr link (https://www.flickr.com/photos/pacificklaus/sets/72157633230955033/).

― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:53 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/ZQBrEg5.jpg

― 龜, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:56 (eleven years ago)

As always I'm reminded of http://i.imgur.com/AgI5ExX.png

― 龜, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:57 (eleven years ago)

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/12/two-faced-insect-is-both-sheep-and-sheep-in-wolfs-clothing/

Everything is weird with this one, can't just excerpt one thing.

― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:36 (eleven years ago)

nice find--just the 9 different bodies thing is a weird enough, and that's only the beginning of the weirdness.

― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:26 (eleven years ago)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11392825/Mystery-tuna-creature-is-tongue-eating-parasite-says-expert.html

http://i.imgur.com/X3wROMM.jpg

― 龜, Friday, 6 February 2015 00:46 (eleven years ago)

I think it's so cute <3

― 龜, Friday, 6 February 2015 00:46 (eleven years ago)

Closeup:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03188/tuna-woman-creatur_3188626c.jpg

― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Friday, 6 February 2015 00:55 (eleven years ago)

<img src="http://education.gtj.org.uk/storage/Components/123/12340_1.JPG";>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_Dog

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:46 (eleven years ago)

whoops
http://education.gtj.org.uk/storage/Components/123/12340_1.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_Dog

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:47 (eleven years ago)

why have a penis, when you can be a penis?

― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:52 (ten years ago)

Why don't they just call it the boner worm

― 龜, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:28 (ten years ago)

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/287737863668586963/

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 February 2015 22:08 (ten years ago)

http://io9.com/newly-discovered-sparklemuffin-peacock-spider-is-here-1688278369
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--W6Bq4VwZ--/c_fit%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_80%2Cw_636/njzreysppbpra1t35jmy.jpg

― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 March 2015 06:37 (ten years ago)

Iron-shelled snail that lives around hydrothermic vents in the ocean:

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/absurd-creature-of-the-week-scaly-foot-snail/

It even has iron scales on it's foot-stomach.

― boretanic snoremaster (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2015 12:16 (ten years ago)

that peacock spider is so beautiful!

― just1n3, Sunday, 1 March 2015 19:42 (ten years ago)

I don't usually like snails, but that scaly foot is pretty damned weird!

― Godsleee You Black Emperor (Leee), Monday, 2 March 2015 06:13 (ten years ago)

On scorpion poop: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/29/how-the-scorpion-lost-its-tail-and-its-anus/

― Godsleee You Black Emperor (Leee), Monday, 2 March 2015 21:58 (ten years ago)

urls that switch it up at the last second

― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 March 2015 22:19 (ten years ago)

I hate these MFs but I can't help but post:

https://33.media.tumblr.com/7f753113a628fcd24a94789dd07f7068/tumblr_nklq0ihpJE1qc6j5yo1_500.gif

― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:54 (ten years ago)

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--2rw1a0ZS--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/bnfzyafgcwsaxuckwr9p.jpg

Asp Caterpillar.

― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Friday, 6 March 2015 21:56 (ten years ago)

Thank you, internet.

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/Rainlander/Trummpppffffffhahahaha_zps2a405053.jpg

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 6 March 2015 22:00 (ten years ago)

Not weird animals, per se: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2015/01/29/heres-why-76-beavers-were-forced-to-skydive-into-the-idaho-wilderness-in-1948/

― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:34 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

flora not fauna but holy shit
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung,-never-forgotten/

― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 March 2015 00:46 (ten years ago)

The most poisonous plant in the world and it's called Gympie Gympie all just seems so stereotypically Australian...

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Monday, 30 March 2015 03:16 (ten years ago)

― 龜, Saturday, 4 April 2015 18:06 (ten years ago)

http://www.amnh.org/global-business-development/traveling-exhibitions/life-at-the-limits

Nnnnnngh I'm gonna go

― 龜, Saturday, 4 April 2015 18:07 (ten years ago)

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/464_261/images/live/p0/1t/23/p01t23bt.jpg
along the same lines
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140303-last-place-on-earth-without-life

― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 April 2015 22:51 (ten years ago)

Extremophiles. ♥

http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/termites-fight-desertification

They are about the size of a Tic Tac. They have no eyes and a see-through gut. They eat poop and farm fungi. And they might be our best allies in the fight against desertification. Who are these climate change warriors?
Termites! Yes, that same lowly insect that likes to chew through the back deck. According to a new report published in the February issue of Science, these critters and the mounds they create are crucial to the resilience of savannahs and other dryland ecosystems across the planet.
“Termite mounds are islands of fertility,” says Robert Pringle, an ecologist at Princeton University and study coauthor.
When you think of termite mounds—if you think of them at all—you might imagine a tall dirt tower, as high as 25 feet. But beneath the ground, the colony can stretch for another 30 feet or more. Termites can survive in extremely dry places, Pringle says, but when it does rain, their subterranean tunnels allow water to penetrate the soil. This encourages vegetation to take root, creating a refuge for other insects, mammals, and birds. Even when the rest of the savannah has withered and died, the mounds remain, like green polka dots on a ruddy field.

― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Monday, 13 April 2015 21:26 (ten years ago)

Probably have mentioned bone-eating Osedax before, but what the hey: http://www.primerstories.com/primers/primer0020.html

Discovered in 2002, Osedax are a family of annelid worms that can consume bone. They have no heads, mouth or guts.
Instead, the treelike worms grow branches that collect oxygen dissolved in the water, and ‘roots’ that contain symbiotic bacteria. The bacteria pump out acid and enzymes to dissolve the bone, drilling through the bone and anchoring the worm, and they pass on the nutritious protein and fats to their host.
When scientists began to look at the Osedax specimens they had collected, they were puzzled: all the specimens were female. Where were the males? Then they looked more closely. It turns out that Osedax males are dwarfs; they consist of fully mature sperm-producing testes and not much else. And they live inside the bodies of the females, up to hundreds of dwarf males inside a single female.

― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Monday, 20 April 2015 22:26 (ten years ago)

Haven't read this yet but could it be anything but awesome? http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150313-the-origin-of-the-anus

― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 22:28 (ten years ago)

wau @ osedax

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 22:41 (ten years ago)

Another article that I intend to read: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2015/03/13/being-stabbed-with-a-mucus-dagger-is-not-even-the-worst-part-of-snail-sex/#.VTgmOa1Viko

― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 22:53 (ten years ago)

First link wasn't that good. :(

Second link is better:

A love dart is a sharp dagger that a snail builds in its body out of calcium carbonate. Before mating, the snail thrusts this dart out of itself and straight into its partner’s flesh. A love dart is not related to a penis (each snail has one of those, too) and doesn’t carry sperm. It’s pure weaponry.

― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 23 April 2015 00:11 (ten years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/consider-the-sponge

A sponge essentially carves organs out of negative space, using its layers and jelly to delineate a complex network of channels and pores, which transport nutrients and waste much like a human kidney or bloodstream.

― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:32 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxtKxlR5yqM

― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 05:24 (ten years ago)

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-fun-facts-about-marine-ribbon-worms-3156969

― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 06:08 (ten years ago)

That video... WHAT. o_o"

― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 06:48 (ten years ago)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27317-new-monkey-species-revealed-thanks-to-distinctive-penis.html#.VUvXqNNVhBd

― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Thursday, 7 May 2015 21:24 (ten years ago)

When spiderlings hatch, they’re trapped in the puck. Mom pierces the protective silk to free them — and then she stops eating for the rest of her life. For the next two weeks or so, she feeds the dozens of young by regurgitating a transparent liquid. This slurry mixes what’s left of her last meals plus some of her own guts.
The mother’s midgut had already started breaking down while she guarded the eggs, Salomon and her colleagues report in the April Journal of Arachnology. And by the time the pale youngsters hatch, liquefied gut suitable for baby mouthparts is building up in her abdomen.
As liquid wells out on mom’s face, spiderlings jostle for position, swarming over her head like a face mask of caramel-colored beads. This will be her sole brood of hatchlings, and she regurgitates 41 percent of her body mass to feed her spiderlings.
But her young take even more,possibly at her invitation. “She makes no attempt to escape,” Salomon says. Spiderlings pierce her abdomen with their mouthparts and over the course of several hours drain her innards.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/when-mom-serves-herself-dinner

― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Monday, 18 May 2015 18:34 (ten years ago)

Lots of gems here: http://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/animal-behaviour/in-africa-some-food-chains-are-powered-by-hippo-poop

― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Monday, 18 May 2015 20:31 (ten years ago)

That spider one needs a five minute Herzog short about it.

― Luc Skyferrari (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 09:11 (ten years ago)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/150427-caterpillars-tentacles-rainforests-animals-peru-science/

― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:45 (ten years ago)

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/23/spider-decoy/

― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:48 (ten years ago)

Caterpillars! Tentacles! Rainforests! Animals! Peru! SCIENCE!

― Luc Skyferrari (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 21 May 2015 03:56 (ten years ago)

Next on syfy

― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 May 2015 04:14 (ten years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigbutt_worm

― 龜, Monday, 25 May 2015 13:41 (ten years ago)

Best name ever, also its other name is perfect, so mathematically the best creature ever.

http://www.eversostrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/pigbutt-worm.jpg

― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Monday, 25 May 2015 17:14 (ten years ago)

Great article: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/05/the-dragon-autopsy/393890/

― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 20:42 (ten years ago)

fascinatin'; though I would like more pictures

― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 23:09 (ten years ago)

So the Halibut and the Flounder start out with two eyes on either side of its head like normal fish, then one eye migrates from one side of its head to the other resulting in two eyes on the same side:

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR0GiE_It0n5xxKeWmrduUyu45k-wG0pU0tltGJsqkhZOiYDj7szA

― brownie, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 16:18 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaE-LwDowcU

― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2015 06:32 (ten years ago)

Coconut octopus. :D

― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Friday, 5 June 2015 16:46 (ten years ago)

i am really guilty that i find them so delicious as they appear to be inordinately intelligent

― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2015 16:48 (ten years ago)

Don't forget about pigs re: edible intelligence.

― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Friday, 5 June 2015 18:20 (ten years ago)

http://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/120786062378/so-ugly-its-cute-the-warty-or-clown-frogfish

― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Friday, 5 June 2015 18:20 (ten years ago)

with pigs, i just avoid thinking about them but octopi are fun to watch

― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2015 18:23 (ten years ago)

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/06/05/Mysterious-green-sea-creature-captured-on-video-in-Taiwan/3701433507573/

― 龜, Sunday, 7 June 2015 15:22 (ten years ago)

Green, eh? Taiwan, eh?

― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Sunday, 7 June 2015 15:35 (ten years ago)

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32991586

― 龜, Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:24 (ten years ago)

Moderator please rename thread to Cute Animals.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/files/2015/06/octopus.jpg

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/06/16/adorable-octopus-name/#.VYsGZxNVhBc

― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 19:58 (ten years ago)

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/testicle-biting_fish_with_human-like_teeth_found_in_new_jersey_lake

Moderator please put a hold on that request

http://i.imgur.com/dXW0rjV.jpg

― 龜, Thursday, 25 June 2015 20:19 (ten years ago)

Hope this works (gif of a vid that no longer exists):

http://i.imgur.com/jqQ8PoC.gifv

― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Friday, 26 June 2015 22:20 (ten years ago)

Nuts: http://i.imgur.com/jqQ8PoC.gifv

― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Friday, 26 June 2015 22:20 (ten years ago)

OK wut:

For years, their origin has remained an evolutionary mystery, but now, a new study suggests that regulation of the genetic circuit known as the Sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway by sex hormones may be the answer.

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/04/how-shark-penises-evolved

― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Friday, 26 June 2015 22:40 (ten years ago)

xp Leee what the hell is that if they inject that in your ear do they control your mind what is happening

― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 26 June 2015 23:32 (ten years ago)

(same q about shark penises tia)

― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 26 June 2015 23:32 (ten years ago)

The evilhellnightmareworm is better known as a ribbon worm: http://nerdist.com/the-worm-with-the-fractal-nose-glove/

Very nice/horrifying analogy in that link. Looks like it uses that... stuff... to capture prey.

The research on shark penis mind-control through ears is sadly too sparse to answer your second question.

― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Friday, 26 June 2015 23:39 (ten years ago)

I will continue to wear headphone, then.

Fascinating worm btw!

― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 26 June 2015 23:46 (ten years ago)

http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/24/8838169/hallucigenia-worm-fossil-nature-study-2015

― 龜, Saturday, 27 June 2015 00:36 (ten years ago)

wow

― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 June 2015 02:54 (ten years ago)

<img src="http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/visiting/images/Dodo.jpg";>
the only known preserved soft tissue sample of the dodo
http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/visiting/presenting.htm

― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 July 2015 05:13 (ten years ago)

http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/visiting/images/Dodo.jpg

― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 July 2015 05:13 (ten years ago)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/05/14/the-newest-crayfish-species-looks-like-a-lisa-frank-creation/?postshare=7241431614283673

― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 00:48 (ten years ago)

Would buy Cherax pulcher branded stationary.

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 01:43 (ten years ago)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27482-zoologger-necrophiliac-spider-mite-prefers-its-mate-dead.html

― :wq (Leee), Thursday, 9 July 2015 22:07 (ten years ago)

http://nerdist.com/this-is-not-a-snake-its-some-of-the-best-mimicry-weve-ever-seen/

― :wq (Leee), Saturday, 11 July 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)

That is amazing.

― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 11 July 2015 03:21 (ten years ago)

All the instructions to make an animal’s body are in each one of its individual cells. But how does an embryo know that a scrotum should be built in the groin, and not on your forehead?

Rest of the article gets better from there: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/6-extra-pairs-genitals-just-much-good-thing/

― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 00:03 (ten years ago)

For 13 days, D. darius destroys and reforms itself inside what looks like the head of a Gaboon pit viper (though the snakes aren’t native to Trinidad).

HOW THE HELL DID IT LEARN HOW TO LOOK LIKE A SNAKE ITS NEVER SEEN. D:

― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 03:28 (ten years ago)

Srsly do these 'pillers have YouTube or something, what gives.

― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 03:29 (ten years ago)

Saw it in Nat Geo, thought it looked cool

― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 07:58 (ten years ago)

One thing you won’t find in the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar is the part where after transforming into a butterfly, he mates with a female who has a Very Hungry Reproductive Tract waiting to devour his sperm. She has a special digestive organ just for this purpose. It’s so powerful that it could even compete with the gut that let the caterpillar, in his more innocent days, chew through those five oranges.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2015/05/28/butterflies-have-an-extra-stomach-attached-to-their-vaginas/#.VWirw1I3C6E

― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 15:56 (ten years ago)

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/02/single-celled-creature-has-eye-made-of-domesticated-microbes/

― :wq (Leee), Thursday, 16 July 2015 20:32 (ten years ago)

Young female blanket octopuses literally rip the tentacles right off portuguese man-o-war jellies, and uses them like little octopus nunchuks

http://www.deepseanews.com/2015/05/six-reasons-the-blanket-octopus-is-my-new-favorite-cephalopod/

― :wq (Leee), Friday, 17 July 2015 00:04 (ten years ago)

Woah.

The more I see stuff like those last 2 links, the more I think I know nothing (jon snow). The ocean is just this whole unexplored pile of crazy.

― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Friday, 17 July 2015 00:09 (ten years ago)

It's not just you -- science still has huge gaps concerning the oceans, especially the deep seas!

― :wq (Leee), Friday, 17 July 2015 00:35 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150720-giant-animals-youve-never-seen

― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 August 2015 15:55 (ten years ago)

That's a lot of giant animals, dunno if I have that kind of time.

― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 05:11 (ten years ago)

lol

― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 05:11 (ten years ago)

Imagine a woodlouse that can grow longer than a cat, 76cm (2.5 ft) long – and weigh 1.7kg (3.75 lb). Well, it exists and it's called the giant isopod.

>:(

― carl agatha, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 12:33 (ten years ago)

Yeah, I'm not a fan of those either.

― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:00 (ten years ago)

it's the 12-inch-wide spider that's worrying me

― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:10 (ten years ago)

http://cdn.bleedingcool.net/wp-content/uploads//2010/09/isopods-eating-doritos-570x329.jpg

But giant isopods, they're just like us!

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:10 (ten years ago)

REMOVE BOOKMARK FROM THIS THREAD

― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:16 (ten years ago)

Just some chill dudes chompin on some chips.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:19 (ten years ago)

Wait, how do you not like the isopod? They're so cute.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:44 (ten years ago)

*waves*

http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/the-grossest-creature-insect-ever.jpg?w=634&h=476

― emil.y, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:50 (ten years ago)

― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:40 (ten years ago)

REMOVE BOOKMARK FROM THIS THREAD

― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 16:02 (ten years ago)

emil.y

isopod friend 4 u

http://img15.deviantart.net/c189/i/2011/245/2/d/ivan_the_giant_isopod_by_tarrpit-d48oczi.jpg

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 18:49 (ten years ago)

click at your own risk

― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 18:52 (ten years ago)

in fact they are so cute that you can buy fluffy zip-mouthed isopods from Ikea* and while you slept we all voted to replace the Easter Bunny with one
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5084/5225877787_25a7042457.jpg

(except you can't, because they're discontinued, and they were probably meant to be woodlice anyway. RIP Klappar Skalbagge)

― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 21:14 (ten years ago)

the main takeaway from forks' link is that the human virus (trenchant!) is wiping almost all of them out

― imago, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 21:21 (ten years ago)

Moving on from giant isopod grossness:

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/absurd-creature-of-the-week-tarantula-hawk/?mbid=social_fb

“There are some vivid descriptions of people getting stung by these things,” says invertebrate biologist Ben Hutchins of Texas Parks and Wildlife, “and their recommendation—and this was actually in a peer-reviewed journal—was to just lie down and start screaming [...]”

Surprisingly not native to Australia.

― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 22:16 (ten years ago)

Weird plants! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2015/07/21/plants-murder-bugs-to-pay-their-bodyguards/

Scientists have noticed that the corpse-covered plants can attract other, predatory insects that are looking for food. And while they’re in the neighborhood, these predators might eat some of the plant’s pests—critters that haven’t gotten caught in the flypaper but are happily munching on the their host’s leaves and flowers. One study of a sticky daisy found that these predators were helpful to the plant.

― :wq (Leee), Friday, 7 August 2015 23:35 (ten years ago)

xp lol

It’s actually a kind of solitary wasp with a sting whose resulting pain only lasts three minutes, but it’s so fiercely electric that it could only be described as totally unacceptable.

― new noise, Friday, 7 August 2015 23:41 (ten years ago)

or "unchill"

― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 August 2015 01:58 (ten years ago)

Did we not have a thread solely about giant isopods at one stage?

― ailsa, Sunday, 9 August 2015 22:43 (ten years ago)

fuck washing an isopod

― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 9 August 2015 23:35 (ten years ago)

Weird Animals... What's on your isopod?

― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 August 2015 01:35 (ten years ago)

Wet clicking noises and hisses that eventually start to sound like whispered, inhuman voices calling you to the deep

and Tinashe

― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 10 August 2015 03:32 (ten years ago)

Not super-appropriate for this thread, in that the animals aren't especially weird, but I liked this story full of videos of (mostly) Australian wildlife attacking drones, and needed to share it: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/13/eagle-attacking-drone-mid-air-animals-averse-uavs?CMP=ema_632

― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 14 August 2015 02:16 (ten years ago)

three months pass...

Flannel moth caterpillar in action:

https://45.media.tumblr.com/e4445b55f4b43c723191b26908720f5c/tumblr_nz0s1hR8WR1s3yrubo1_r2_1280.gif

― :wq (Leee), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 22:22 (ten years ago)

i went to the water bears exhibit at the museum of natural history and it was amazing

― 龜, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 00:25 (ten years ago)

Reminds me of this http://www.classickidstv.co.uk/wiki/images/c/c5/Dangermouse_Greenback.jpg

― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 00:26 (ten years ago)

https://41.media.tumblr.com/21463416033ed990920b047d59a25128/tumblr_nz603qp0zf1qm9k25o1_540.jpg

Pretty nudibranch.

― :wq (Leee), Friday, 11 December 2015 00:57 (ten years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ZnO893hTs

― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:42 (ten years ago)

^^ Watched that while I had the Jessica Jones theme song playing in the background, totally works, maaaaan.

― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Friday, 8 January 2016 05:48 (ten years ago)

Did we have these fellas yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMs8Cu8PNKM

― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Sunday, 10 January 2016 22:09 (ten years ago)

THEY FLY @ U FACE

― new noise, Sunday, 10 January 2016 23:00 (ten years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/gAdCndd.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Q3vafgL.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_jacana

― 龜, Sunday, 24 January 2016 17:13 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

Purple socks? Grape-flavored churros?

http://www.mbari.org/deep-sea-worms-slither-around-the-bottom-of-the-animal-tree-of-life/

― La Lechazunga (Leee), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 19:31 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://globalnews.ca/news/2239088/national-geographic-puts-spotlight-on-b-c-s-enigmatic-sea-wolves/

― ulysses, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 21:43 (nine years ago)

Hah wow I totally thought that was going to be about some kind of predatory eel.

― La Lechazunga (Leee), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 21:52 (nine years ago)

Like this wolf fish thing

http://www.sott.net/image/s13/267867/full/vllkyt5dr423icgh4_38b1be8f.jpg

― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 22:29 (nine years ago)

Yeah! /faints

― La Lechazunga (Leee), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 22:42 (nine years ago)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/casper-the-friendly-deep-sea-octopus-who-s-entirely-new-to-science/

― 龜, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:01 (nine years ago)

Awww man that's adorable. I want one to ride around on top of my head.

― bearded flack trickster god (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 March 2016 00:27 (nine years ago)

http://news.yale.edu/2016/03/16/solving-mystery-tully-monster

http://i.imgur.com/dWul70d.jpg

― 龜, Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:20 (nine years ago)

Definitely weird!

― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:40 (nine years ago)

beautiful nose

― ulysses, Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:42 (nine years ago)

OK, they're sure they didn't just find a petrified flamingo?

― bearded flack trickster god (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:50 (nine years ago)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13991-horror-frog-breaks-own-bones-to-produce-claws/

― 龜, Sunday, 27 March 2016 20:16 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/qnwzsny.jpg

― 龜, Sunday, 27 March 2016 20:17 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/DFfMJrB.jpg

― 龜, Sunday, 27 March 2016 20:17 (nine years ago)

I find the hairiness infinitely more disturbing tbh

― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 March 2016 10:29 (nine years ago)

A very WTF Evolution animal where it didn't know when to stop.

― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 28 March 2016 18:50 (nine years ago)

They remind me of Geza Csath's short story "Toad," in which a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill.

― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 March 2016 19:30 (nine years ago)

new display name, cheers

― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:55 (nine years ago)

Haha happy to help

― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 31 March 2016 04:08 (nine years ago)

BTW, what Geza Csath book is that in? Opium?

― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 March 2016 05:26 (nine years ago)

Well, there are two anthologies of his stuff called that - I think it might've been the Penguin one with Attila Sassy art, but I can't find a table of contents for that, so it might've been the other version. It's been like fifteen years since I read it and I don't have the book anymore, but it obviously made an impression.

― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 31 March 2016 05:43 (nine years ago)

I've been lusting after that Penguin book for a while, but it sells for about $200

― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 March 2016 23:23 (nine years ago)

sorry, I'm turning this into an ILB thread

― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 March 2016 23:23 (nine years ago)

Bizarre fossil hauled its offspring around 'like kites'

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 09:26 (nine years ago)

Well that's it. That's the craziest fucking thing I've seen this year.

― a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 10:45 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsHCqrrU-Gk

― 龜, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 11:57 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWmDeoNGWvU

― ulysses, Saturday, 9 April 2016 05:52 (nine years ago)

http://www.sciencealert.com/images/2016-04/swellshark2.jpg

― Kevin Ageusia Smith (wins), Saturday, 9 April 2016 06:49 (nine years ago)

That shark is not swell.

― emil.y, Saturday, 9 April 2016 13:44 (nine years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpheidae

When in colonies, the snapping shrimp can interfere with sonar and underwater communication.[5][6][7] The shrimp are a major source of noise in the ocean.[5]

― 龜, Saturday, 9 April 2016 21:20 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwUT778RovI

― 龜, Monday, 11 April 2016 17:12 (nine years ago)

is that a fish? or an effects plugin?

― ulysses, Monday, 11 April 2016 17:15 (nine years ago)

There are three genders of midshipman fish: females, type I males, and type II males. Type I and type II males have different reproductive strategies, and can be distinguished from each other based on physical characteristics. Type I males are eight times larger in body mass, and have much larger vocal organs. Type II males’ reproductive organs are seven times the size of type I males. Female and type II male midshipman fish can be distinguished from each other by the female’s slightly larger size, and the type II male midshipman’s large reproductive organs.

― a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 11 April 2016 21:24 (nine years ago)

https://youtu.be/5S0GUnHVQfI

― 龜, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 02:44 (nine years ago)

Video captured off the coast of Panama shows a surprising underwater swarm of red crabs, spotted further south than ever before. Where are they headed?

YOUR HOUSE

― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 03:17 (nine years ago)

that's some v serious music.

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 21:01 (nine years ago)

It should really be something off of one of Frankie Laine's country albums.

― a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 April 2016 05:38 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/tQr6hYD.jpg

― 龜, Friday, 15 April 2016 12:46 (nine years ago)

Mudskippers!

― a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 15 April 2016 13:08 (nine years ago)

who's got segmented EYES

― ulysses, Friday, 15 April 2016 16:01 (nine years ago)

what the fuck was that thing with the retracting knife butt???

― just1n3, Thursday, 28 April 2016 06:23 (nine years ago)

Do you mean the razor clam?

― a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 April 2016 06:26 (nine years ago)

The long flat object with the pointed white thing that shot out its butt

― just1n3, Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:28 (nine years ago)

If that's a clam, it's a fucked up one!

― just1n3, Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:29 (nine years ago)

I think that's it's foot, actually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_jackknife_clam

― a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:07 (nine years ago)

meet the rhinoceros auklet
http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1061/804374223_c1d81ed086.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Tz9Yjjyw0
they like pottery
https://vimeo.com/104815923

― ulysses, Monday, 2 May 2016 16:11 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/7wfAVbS.gif

― 龜, Thursday, 5 May 2016 12:38 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/VvsRpuf.gif

― 龜, Thursday, 5 May 2016 12:39 (nine years ago)

wtf no War of the Worlds gifs here man oh wait.

― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Thursday, 5 May 2016 17:04 (nine years ago)

Love that dude, he's all pipe cleaners and LEDs

― Arch Godliness of Purplefull Magic (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 6 May 2016 11:17 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/mIqHiux.jpg

― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 18:24 (nine years ago)

Feel better about my own job now.

Not as weird as some, but I was explaining to my daughter about wobbegongs last night, and thought they belonged here in their role as beautiful/weird sharks:

http://www.elasmodiver.com/Sharkive%20images/Banded%20Wobbegong%20036.jpg

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 23:29 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

newly discovered Australian dancing peacock spiders
https://zippy.gfycat.com/BackMadeupBrownbutterfly.webm

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 23:47 (nine years ago)

Hahaha I highly recommend watching that while listening to Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody".

― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 23:56 (nine years ago)

whaaaat how'd they miss those guys?

― You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 01:46 (nine years ago)

they are literally trying as hard as they can to get your attention

― ulysses, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 04:21 (nine years ago)

"i guess we gotta evolve speech now."

― You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 07:14 (nine years ago)

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36418545

― 龜, Friday, 3 June 2016 13:15 (nine years ago)

this is a gd article to read when yr phone is working w slow data & you have a lil time to imagine up a baby dragon while the imgs are loading

― schlump, Friday, 3 June 2016 14:41 (nine years ago)

GoT tie in

― 龜, Friday, 3 June 2016 14:44 (nine years ago)

they look like axolotl?

― ulysses, Friday, 3 June 2016 16:12 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/JT497kj.jpg

― 龜, Friday, 10 June 2016 13:25 (nine years ago)

What is that?! I like it very much. Note the eye and the delicate violet plumage.

― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Friday, 10 June 2016 14:02 (nine years ago)

looks like a bird of paradise of some kind

― imago, Friday, 10 June 2016 14:04 (nine years ago)

If possible, please can you get it for me.

― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Friday, 10 June 2016 14:06 (nine years ago)

i can get you the wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles_paradise_flycatcher

note: this isn't a true bird of paradise, even though 'paradise' is in the name

― imago, Friday, 10 June 2016 14:10 (nine years ago)

I am not convinced it is the same one. I think it looks more like the Japanese paradise flycatcher.

But actually, all the paradise flycatcher species appear to be lovely. See below:

http://www.africanbirdclub.org/sites/default/files/Mascarene-Par2.jpg

Not weird, but clearly very important.

― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Friday, 10 June 2016 14:18 (nine years ago)

ya agreed. that family of birds is very important all around

http://pixdaus.com/files/items/pics/0/31/549031_fe84394b9a4d10c5b6762b2c7994b7e6_large.jpg

here's a yellow-breasted boatbill

― imago, Friday, 10 June 2016 15:02 (nine years ago)

It is so clever. <3

― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Friday, 10 June 2016 15:03 (nine years ago)

sorry about your thread though, dayo. to atone for this invasion of Monarch Flycatchers, I will post an animal of genuinely unhinged behaviour, whose name is also Monarch:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/news/photos/000/810/81092.adapt.768.1.jpg

― imago, Friday, 10 June 2016 15:06 (nine years ago)

worth reading up on the Monarch butterfly - it seems to be going the way of the Passenger Pigeon, which in a few decades went from America's most populous bird (the Monarch butterfly is/was the most populous butterfly too) to completely extinct due to population crash and migration failure. the Monarch is running out of habitat and its numbers are falling through the floor. it's all horrible

― imago, Friday, 10 June 2016 15:16 (nine years ago)

Where I live the Monarchs used to pass through as part of their migration - you'd see tons of trees (eucalyptus, I think) covered with them like that picture, it was crazy. Now you see a few but nothing like that.

― On this timescale, all matter is liquid. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 11 June 2016 04:37 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/piL9mvg.gif

― 龜, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 11:57 (nine years ago)

Wtf are we looking at there? An eel attempting to climb a decapitated crocodile?

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 13:59 (nine years ago)

looks like an electric eel, judging from the light up Croc

― brownie, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 14:02 (nine years ago)

where can i get a light up decapitated crocodile

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 14:30 (nine years ago)

I think you just mod a standard decapitated croc.

― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:28 (nine years ago)

is there like a kit or

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:30 (nine years ago)

stupidly, i did not see the lights

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 01:17 (nine years ago)

The Tennessee Aquarium in the United States is home to an electric eel that uses its electrical discharges to post from its own Twitter account. Named Miguel Wattson, the eel's exhibit is wired to a small computer that sends out a prewritten tweet when it emits electricity at a high enough threshold.[13][14][relevant? – discuss]

― imago, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 10:17 (nine years ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/01/giant-swimming-venomous-centipede-found-south-east-asia
http://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/830b56a6e96218b7c7f2bcbe03a1b1acd0860613/100_774_1221_732/master/1221.jpg

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 1 July 2016 14:41 (nine years ago)

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

NEVER GOING IN WATER AGAIN

― Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless &Highly Indifferent (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 1 July 2016 23:34 (nine years ago)

aw, cmon, the water's warm.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/newly-discovered-underwater-volcanic-range-teeming-bizarre-tiny-fanged-fish

http://media.mnn.com/assets/images/2015/07/deep-sea-fish.jpg.653x0_q80_crop-smart.jpg

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 23:00 (nine years ago)

Reading about the amazing Australian lyrebird and its mimicking ability, including the way it passes on "recorded" sounds from generatiion to generation...

In 1969, a park ranger, Neville Fenton, recorded a lyrebird song which resembled flute sounds in the New England National Park, near Dorrigo in northern coastal New South Wales. After much detective work by Fenton, it was discovered that in the 1930s, a flute player living on a farm adjoining the park used to play tunes near his pet lyrebird. The lyrebird adopted the tunes into his repertoire, and retained them after release into the park. Neville Fenton forwarded a tape of his recording to Norman Robinson. Because a lyrebird is able to carry two tunes at the same time, Robinson filtered out one of the tunes and put it on the phonograph for the purposes of analysis. The song represents a modified version of two popular tunes in the 1930s: "The Keel Row" and "Mosquito's Dance". Musicologist

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Friday, 15 July 2016 05:39 (nine years ago)

very curious how accurate it is, and how accurately the tune is preserved down the avian generations

― ogmor, Friday, 15 July 2016 08:15 (nine years ago)

Because a lyrebird is able to carry two tunes at the same time

this is so exciting

― imago, Friday, 15 July 2016 08:18 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyeqo1qRVg

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 8 August 2016 19:58 (nine years ago)

One of my favorite 80s giallo movies

― Have you hugged your timeghoul today? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 August 2016 21:27 (nine years ago)

Ha, yes.

― emil.y, Monday, 8 August 2016 22:10 (nine years ago)

Scientists fight crab for mysterious purple orb discovered in California deep

― write sed fread (Leee), Friday, 12 August 2016 21:03 (nine years ago)

My favorite Call of Cthulhu module

― doeth represent the square of squares squaredly (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:48 (nine years ago)

I got a million of em

sorry

― doeth represent the square of squares squaredly (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:49 (nine years ago)

https://twitter.com/Strange_Animals/status/764080287365988352

"The bloodybelly comb jelly produces rainbow lights from its beating cilia, propelling it through the water."

― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:56 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/pZufqqv.jpg

― 龜, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 14:58 (nine years ago)

^^ http://laughingsquid.com/a-gorgeous-purple-stubby-squid-with-big-googly-eyes-that-appear-to-be-painted-onto-his-face/

― write sed fread (Leee), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:32 (nine years ago)

couldn't put it better myself.

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:43 (nine years ago)

Sea potatoes wash up en masse on Cornish beach

― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 19 August 2016 15:45 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/r7XzsqM.jpg

just learned of the existence of giant clams today!

― 龜, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:54 (nine years ago)

i presume you are down with geoducks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEGH1MzT4FE
pronounced "gooey duck"

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 16:47 (nine years ago)

yes

― 龜, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 17:57 (nine years ago)

He's probably eaten geoduck.

― write sed fread (Leee), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 17:58 (nine years ago)

ilXor.com

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― 龜, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 18:03 (nine years ago)

yes, hence "i presume"

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 18:22 (nine years ago)

geoduck is okay; kinda rubbery but that kind of a criticism is like complaining ice cream is too cold
giant clam tastes like concentrated ocean

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 18:27 (nine years ago)

sorry: meant to say "good giant clam sashimi tastes like concentrated ocean"

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 18:29 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/vT1vxjA.jpg

http://pipa.neaq.org/2015/09/2015-expedition-crabs-your-favorite.html

― 龜, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:43 (nine years ago)

i like the two that look like they've already been deep fried.

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 September 2016 17:30 (nine years ago)

https://youtu.be/XSQ_ajl3cvE

― rm -rf / (Leee), Friday, 23 September 2016 03:34 (nine years ago)

Whoa. Junior Varsity Basketball Fox.

― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 23 September 2016 06:44 (nine years ago)

more proof of god's sense of humor

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 24 September 2016 17:04 (nine years ago)

https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/08/23/sea-urchins-pull-themselves-inside-out-to-be-reborn/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=urchins&utm_content=KQEDScience&utm_campaign=DL_urchins

The larval urchin drifts in the ocean currents as a member of the plankton for a month or longer. How does it change from a tiny drifter the size of a grain of sand to a bottom-dwelling ball of spines?
Halfway through its voyage out to sea, “something very interesting happens,” Hodin says. “They do a little trick to try to make that transformation from being a larva to being a juvenile happen faster.” They begin to grow the juvenile urchin form — a miniature adult — inside of the larva’s body.

― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Friday, 30 September 2016 22:53 (nine years ago)

When it reaches the rocky shore, the juvenile urchin bursts out.

― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Friday, 30 September 2016 22:54 (nine years ago)

a koan in action

― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Saturday, 1 October 2016 05:46 (nine years ago)

mirror spiders!

― aloof club (doo dah), Sunday, 2 October 2016 01:43 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/ZbQTFM6.gif

sea robins

― 龜, Sunday, 2 October 2016 21:55 (nine years ago)

I can see why they're called that. They really evoke the pudgy jollyness of the bird.

― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Monday, 3 October 2016 11:46 (nine years ago)

my second time posting this link but i do think it's worth spreading
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2106331-fish-recorded-singing-dawn-chorus-on-reefs-just-like-birds/

― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 23:27 (nine years ago)

that's amazing

― ogmor, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:35 (nine years ago)

the friend that sent it to me promptly wrote them to ask if they could share more samples which they didn't respond to but i love her for trying

― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:47 (nine years ago)

also because not everyone knows about trapdoor spiders i guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAb5iLFZ12E

― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:48 (nine years ago)

We have trapdoor spiders all over our garden here in australia too. Their tunnels are so neat.

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:08 (nine years ago)

Also xp love the fish dawn chorus!

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:09 (nine years ago)

Prefer Boards of Canada's "Dawn Chorus" tbh.

― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Thursday, 6 October 2016 02:17 (nine years ago)

rude

― clouds, Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:39 (nine years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strap-toothed_whale

― 龜, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:00 (nine years ago)

There don't seem to be any good, illustrative pictures of it, which is frustrating.

― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:24 (nine years ago)

Found its rookie card

http://i65.tinypic.com/2eduqok.jpg

― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 17 October 2016 04:47 (nine years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Cococrb2.jpg

― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 23:13 (nine years ago)

Land crabs are freaky!

― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 23:23 (nine years ago)

Is that a coconut crab? Those things are right out of a nightmare.

― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 23 October 2016 12:30 (nine years ago)

Speaking of giant arthropods, see an Australian huntsman spider carrying a mouse up a wall: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/24/australia-giant-spider-mouse-carry-horrifying-impressive?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+AUS+v1+-+AUS+morning+mail+callout&utm_term=196316&subid=7133936&CMP=ema_632

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 02:19 (nine years ago)

Always a little sad when a vertebrate loses out to an invertebrate, IMO.

― Pean-Juc Leeecard (Leee), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:09 (nine years ago)

"yes, i'm having problems with mice in my house. i was wondering if you have anything that could help?"
"well, he have these huntsman spiders..."
"you know what, mice are fine. i'm good."

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:33 (nine years ago)

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-newly-discovered-centipede-has-hundreds-of-legs-and-three-extra-dicks?asd?utm_source=mbtwitter

― 龜, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 12:02 (nine years ago)

Cthulu recorded in motion: https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/152351380498/a-feather-star-takes-flight-into-abyssal-skies

― Pean-Juc Leeecard (Leee), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 22:16 (nine years ago)

My parents just went on a holiday to Lord Howe Island, off the Australian coast, and got to play with the Lord Howe phasmid, rarest insect in the world (a kind of gigantic stick insect): http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2014/06/lord-howe-island-stick-insect-phasmid

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 23:33 (nine years ago)

Here's one on Attenborough: http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/2/4/c/v/r/image.related.articleLeadNarrow.300x0.24cu9.png/1345174248910.jpg

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 23:34 (nine years ago)

The long-term plan is for rodents to be eradicated from Lord Howe Island and the captive population of stick insects reintroduced, with a species of owl to keep their new population in check.

Hopefully they control the owls by introducing gorillas.

― Pean-Juc Leeecard (Leee), Thursday, 27 October 2016 00:46 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.sci-news.com/biology/science-dendrogramma-two-unclassifiable-deep-sea-animals-australia-02134.html?utm_source=TractionNext&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Insider-Subscribe-181116
Freaky Australian fungus-like sea creatures, nobody knows what they are related to

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/spider-eating-bone-house-wasp-deuteragenia-ossarium-uses-ant-corpses-ward-off-nest-predators-1455145?utm_source=TractionNext&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Insider-Subscribe-181116
Chinese wasp makes nest out of dead ants, eats giant spiders

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 18 November 2016 03:22 (nine years ago)

Uh, I vote for the wee mushroom things.

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Friday, 18 November 2016 07:18 (nine years ago)

cute mostly but sorta weird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uEfmQt34Nc

― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:22 (nine years ago)

http://frikiskrew.com/post/152955378766/aaaaag-que-asco-una-rata-fus-rata-fuuuus

what the fuck kinda monkey is this

― 龜, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 17:31 (nine years ago)

a gibbon methinks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSLFHPd8LX0

― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 17:51 (nine years ago)

A lar gibbon, maybe?

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 20:16 (nine years ago)

I'd never seen video of a Crinoid before.

https://mobile.twitter.com/gabrielenguard/status/802413011528916992/photo/1

― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Sunday, 27 November 2016 09:34 (nine years ago)

Whoa, it's like something from a Madeline L'Engle book.

― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 27 November 2016 11:18 (nine years ago)

* Madeleine

― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 27 November 2016 11:18 (nine years ago)

Dumbo octopuses looking ugly in old age shockah:

https://67.media.tumblr.com/d0189ca0b2ac6e3edc3e8ad3a401876f/tumblr_ofo06fPJZX1rj5timo1_540.jpg

― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 19:12 (nine years ago)

we should look so good when we're their age

― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 20:07 (nine years ago)

Awwwww, still kind of cute, has a built-in nanna nightie

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 00:13 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/pointy-nosed-blue-chimaeras-ghost-sharks/

― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2016 15:21 (nine years ago)

ok, that thing is awesome.

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 16 December 2016 15:44 (nine years ago)

couldn't get that video to play, but this one is up and is super awesome even if it's a terrible url
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ghost-shark-chimaera-penis-head-deep-sea-exploration-a7479201.html

― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Friday, 16 December 2016 16:01 (nine years ago)

It's partly the same footage. Excellent weird animal though.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 16 December 2016 16:22 (nine years ago)

just learned about horsehair worms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap8Ts6lv_k0

― 龜, Saturday, 17 December 2016 14:34 (nine years ago)

Bleurgh! (Parasites inspire a primitive revulsion, don't you think?)

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Saturday, 17 December 2016 16:35 (nine years ago)

I never knew that a mantis's death cries sound so much like a human infant's, it's horrible.

― Bianca Smell BO (Leee), Saturday, 17 December 2016 23:42 (nine years ago)

I never seen a mantis cry
Til I seen that mantis die

(Seriously not watching that video tho)

― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 18 December 2016 09:10 (nine years ago)

We have a pair of french doors we haven't opened since last summer, opened them yesterday and there was a huge parasitic wasp nest in the gap at the top. Lots of huge paralysed spiders full of baby wasps came raining down on me. not what I wanted.

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:53 (nine years ago)

Well that's a nightmare.

― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 08:11 (nine years ago)

http://gizmodo.com/this-deep-sea-fisherman-posts-his-discoveries-on-twitte-1790323479

h/t vegemite girl

― 龜, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 19:06 (nine years ago)

some straight up giger shit in there
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--svrwbNOu--/c_scale%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_80%2Cw_800/bcuihhbnenhzasfg09h5.jpg

― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 19:14 (nine years ago)

If you look at that one upside down it's almost cute.

― Bianca Smell BO (Leee), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:13 (nine years ago)

Worth following the link to see the entire lineup of weird sea creatures. More than a dozen. All creepy as hell and fascinating.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:37 (nine years ago)

That little angler fish is quite sweet

― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:03 (nine years ago)

Moar ghost sharx: https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/154740824998/tis-the-season-for-wonder-and-beauty-like-this

― Bianca Smell BO (Leee), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:26 (nine years ago)

Countdown to those Russian photos appearing in clickbait ads. "They found THIS in Chernobyl..."

― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:10 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

do not watch if fucking giant fang-faced, brainless nightmare hell centipedes that live on the bottom of the ocean and eat perfectly harmless, cute fish bother you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=93&v=K_7ByiYbCYM

the sand striker/bobbit worm. I think H.R. Giger died of a terminal orgasm he had when he saw this footage.

― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 January 2017 21:38 (nine years ago)

Oops here it is from the start

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_7ByiYbCYM

― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 January 2017 21:38 (nine years ago)

Bobbit worms may be accidentally introduced into artificial environments.[4] In March 2009, the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay, Cornwall, discovered a Bobbit worm in one of their tanks. The workers had seen the devastation caused by the worm, such as fish being injured or disappearing and coral being sliced in half, but did not find it until they started taking the display apart in the tank. The worm was nicknamed "Barry".[5]

― new noise, Saturday, 14 January 2017 21:48 (nine years ago)

excellent bump

― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Saturday, 14 January 2017 21:59 (nine years ago)

So that's what happened to amelia earhart

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Sunday, 15 January 2017 10:07 (nine years ago)

"Barry"?

― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Sunday, 15 January 2017 17:35 (nine years ago)

I recommend trying a GIS for 'silky anteater'.

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Sunday, 15 January 2017 20:00 (nine years ago)

Aphids are weird!

https://youtu.be/hNzeshvjZdw

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmy8x2Lm7rE (Leee), Sunday, 15 January 2017 20:40 (nine years ago)

that is insane.

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 15 January 2017 23:09 (nine years ago)

I recommend trying a GIS for 'silky anteater'.

The most adorable things with claws like hook hands I've ever seen!

― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 16 January 2017 05:31 (nine years ago)

Half squee, half body-horror.

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Monday, 16 January 2017 08:15 (nine years ago)

http://gizmodo.com/um-this-wasp-species-has-an-ant-head-for-a-butt-1791281779

― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 16:03 (nine years ago)

http://img04.deviantart.net/446d/i/2012/116/3/d/montezuma_oropendola_by_jamie_macarthur-d4xm116.jpg

meet the montezuma oropendola, a guatemalan bird with bizarre mating rituals and a song that sounds like aphex twin on a good day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HjNZ1a0PTY

Greater fidelity here: http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/127299

― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Monday, 23 January 2017 20:53 (nine years ago)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/why-frog-tongues-are-so-sticky/515193/

― 龜, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 20:40 (nine years ago)

“The analysis helps to explain many bizarre observations, like why frogs use the backs of their eyeballs to push prey down their throats,” says Kiisa Nishikawa from Northern Arizona University. When the insect’s in the frog’s mouth, the frog has to get it off its tongue. Fortunately, all of its adhesive tricks work best in the perpendicular direction—it may be really hard to pull the insect off, but it’s comparably easy to slide it off. The frog just needs something to push against the insect—so it uses its eyeballs. Twelve years ago, Robert Levine used X-ray videos to show that a frog swallows, it retracts its eyeballs inwards, and uses these to push victims off its tongue.

― 龜, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 20:40 (nine years ago)

that is remarkably efficient

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 20:59 (nine years ago)

there are so many amazing phrases in that article

They would launch their sticky tongues at insects with incredible speed and precision

Try to design a wet material that can hit a highly textured object at incredibly high speed and adhere

People have been studying frog tongues since the 19th century

bloody bags full of frog tongues

its saliva flows freely and readily seeps into every crack and gap

Who knows what frog tongues will lead to?

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 21:05 (nine years ago)

Noel, meanwhile, is turning her attention to cat tongues. They are coated in tiny spines, and Noel wants to know whether these help the felines to groom themselves, to rip meat from bones, or something else. “I’m working with both house-cat tongues and tiger tongues,” she says. “My two favorite animals are cats and frogs and that’s what I’m studying now. It’s a good life.”

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 21:05 (nine years ago)

#peoplewho'vefiguredouthowtolive

― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 21:38 (nine years ago)

Many studies of sticky animals have led to the development of new materials

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 21:59 (nine years ago)

yes who can forget 3M's bold research on sellotapeworms

― Mother Teresa May I (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 22:13 (nine years ago)

this gecko that can shed its scale sgives me the heebiejeebies

https://i.imgur.com/4MDCBbZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/cUCITMm.jpg

― 龜, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 17:00 (eight years ago)

the phrase "looks like a raw chicken breast" stuck in my mind's eye

― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 17:06 (eight years ago)

The phrase "googly-eyed penis" stuck in mine.

― Anthology of Literature's Finest Penis Descriptions (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:08 (eight years ago)

Did George Lucas know about the bobbit worm before Jedi or was it just chance that he thought up a giant one?

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:27 (eight years ago)

That sand striker footage is just missing a moment where there's a belch followed by a perfectly formed fish skeleton popping out of the sand

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:48 (eight years ago)

Eunice aphroditois are common on soft bottoms in warm waters, and if Lucas were a scuba diver he'd be aware of them. It wasn't known colequially as the Bobbit worm prior 1996, after Loreena Bobbit.

http://i.imgur.com/eSOyd3k.jpg

― президентских компромат (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 23:27 (eight years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/4FdNaJK.gif

― президентских компромат (Sanpaku), Friday, 17 February 2017 23:27 (eight years ago)

oh i hate that

― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 17 February 2017 23:35 (eight years ago)

Evil.

― Dr. MC Selar (Leee), Saturday, 18 February 2017 00:37 (eight years ago)

never seen a fish emote like that

― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Sunday, 19 February 2017 07:03 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://68.media.tumblr.com/204891818aca56c158bdeb07b07cae6f/tumblr_inline_ollyarKWQt1qb3qcf_540.jpg

the warusoba can be deep fried and eaten

― 龜, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 13:50 (eight years ago)

hr giger's lunchbox

― not even my mate ross king sniffed out this hot gossip (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 13:55 (eight years ago)

apparently it was the inspiration for alien?

― 龜, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 14:09 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/04/17/scientists-find-giant-elusive-clam-known-as-the-unicorn-of-mollusks/

― 龜, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:53 (eight years ago)

Is 'mollusk' the US spelling? No matter, it just looks odd to me.

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 21:25 (eight years ago)

Yeah sorry, I know they're in the phylum Mollusca, but we spell it mollusk all the same.

― Sadavir Entwhistle (Leee), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 23:30 (eight years ago)

Ignoring the memetic internet slang, pretty funny:

https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/159737441365/asapscience-this-never-gets-old

― Sadavir Entwhistle (Leee), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:11 (eight years ago)

https://assets.wired.com/photos/w_1536/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Freediver-and-giant-manta-copyright-Andrea-Marshall.jpg

It is 25 feet wide.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 17:26 (eight years ago)

Or those remoras???

― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 18:00 (eight years ago)

OMG that is awesome in lots of ways

― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 18:10 (eight years ago)

Right?

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/andrea-marshall-manta-queen/#slide-1

Leee - assume they're some kind of parasitic sucker fish (highly technical term) that's latching onto the ray but I have no idea what kind.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 18:48 (eight years ago)

Or those remoras???

Sigh. *Are

Remoras are symbiotic sucker fish. That pic though gives me the creeps.

― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 23:59 (eight years ago)

Just say NO to parasites. They fill me with a primordial horror/revulsion.

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 27 April 2017 04:01 (eight years ago)

remoras are anti-parasite; it's a mutualistic rleationship
http://www.leisurepro.com/blog/explore-the-blue/shark-remora-relationship/

― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Thursday, 27 April 2017 14:51 (eight years ago)

Oh, cool! I had this image (from another fish?) of them attaching themselves and sucking blood. If I had to guess I'd say...leechfish, because that's how stuff is named.

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 27 April 2017 15:35 (eight years ago)

remoras are anti-parasite; it's a mutualistic rleationship

I'd forgotten they cleaned up their host's skin, but that picture! It's like a different kind of trypophobia.

― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Thursday, 27 April 2017 17:10 (eight years ago)

Oh, cool! I had this image (from another fish?) of them attaching themselves and sucking blood. If I had to guess I'd say...leechfish, because that's how stuff is named.

Lampreys?

― handy bowling (doo dah), Thursday, 27 April 2017 17:15 (eight years ago)

yes and let's please not add pictures of them or hagfish here

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 27 April 2017 17:27 (eight years ago)

They do fit the WEIRD criterion, though!

― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Thursday, 27 April 2017 17:27 (eight years ago)

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05lostcity/logs/july27/media/xeno2_600.jpg

xenophyophores, (relatively) giant single-celled amoeba-like organisms that live on the deepest sea floors

― clouds, Sunday, 30 April 2017 17:18 (eight years ago)

Dang that's a big cell.

― mutual interest in technology, the ocean & rap music (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 09:50 (eight years ago)

right? so bizarre -- they can't even really study them well because they just fall apart when they attempt to capture them

― clouds, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 15:16 (eight years ago)

news of a single-celled organism that can grow to nearly a foot across is kinda blowing my mind tbh

― gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 15:22 (eight years ago)

makes me wonder why i bother having all these other cells

― gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 15:22 (eight years ago)

the biggest cell, the best cell

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 16:03 (eight years ago)

Note that there are many, many cell nuclei in that xenophyophore, they just share a common cytoplasm. All it takes is nuclear replication without cytokinesis. Seems a perfectly reasonable solution for organisms with no need for tissue differentiation or cell migration during development.

Xenophyophores aren't the largest multinucleated cells. The aquatic algae Caulerpa taxifolia grows to 6-12 inches long. The pretzel slime mold Hemitrichia serpula is one you could find in temperate forests.

http://www.ispotnature.org/sites/default/files/images/51608/39f663908013471a17b43bfe643858c1.jpg

― behavioral sink (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 16:31 (eight years ago)

^aren't the largest by some measures. Also, wiki tells me that some filamentous mold cells extend hundreds of meters.

― behavioral sink (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 16:33 (eight years ago)

mmmm pretzel cells

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 16:41 (eight years ago)

Dammit ulysses beat me to it.

― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 17:06 (eight years ago)

i'm getting alphabetti spaghetti vibes

― nxd, Thursday, 4 May 2017 08:26 (eight years ago)

Should thread title be changed to weird eukaryotes since we've now moved into slime mold and sea floor "thing" territory

― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 4 May 2017 10:51 (eight years ago)

Weird living things would be sufficiently broad, I think. Plus, we're leaving out the botanists.

Hydnora africana
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4HaK29r8LuI/UMsTw8EcQAI/AAAAAAAAFuQ/zgFRoL-WEOk/s1600/hydnora_africana_flower.jpg

― behavioral sink (Sanpaku), Thursday, 4 May 2017 18:01 (eight years ago)

S/D plants that look like they're screaming

― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 4 May 2017 18:12 (eight years ago)

Plants that look like screaming hamburgers.

― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Thursday, 4 May 2017 20:09 (eight years ago)

feed me seymour

― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 May 2017 21:06 (eight years ago)

thanks for that tidbit sanpaku, v interesting. i'm so not a science person but i'm trying to be!

― clouds, Friday, 5 May 2017 00:00 (eight years ago)

BTW, I was wrong about Caulerpa taxifolia - single multinucleate cells can have creeping stolons that extend for several meters. It isn't rare at all, this is the invasiver algae that's wiping out native life in the Mediterranean, as none of the local herbivores are adapted to its toxins.

http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/ContentImages/_w/bio_Caul.diagram_jpg.jpg

― behavioral sink (Sanpaku), Friday, 5 May 2017 00:19 (eight years ago)

https://ladygeekgirl.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/the-langoliers.jpg

x-post

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Friday, 5 May 2017 06:37 (eight years ago)

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/mystery-creature-washes-up-on-seram-island-in-indonesia/news-story/b628f1e1ca3813a29307398dabb4f589

― 龜, Friday, 12 May 2017 15:34 (eight years ago)

gotta be a whale of some kind right? kinda crazy to be wading in there with that imo but hey

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 12 May 2017 15:48 (eight years ago)

https://68.media.tumblr.com/16af3c5116489a19f3b596f674916c61/tumblr_inline_opt1laX9K01qk45js_1280.jpg

https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/160560037918/montereybayaquarium-anyone-know-what-this

― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Friday, 12 May 2017 17:38 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/11/22/camel-dhula-gazelle-palatal-sac/

― Violet Jax (Violet Jynx), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 14:26 (eight years ago)

Sounds horribly uncomfortable. But I've never been a camel, so who knows?

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 15:12 (eight years ago)

I don't recommend trying this

― Violet Jax (Violet Jynx), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 15:20 (eight years ago)

"The heavy cost of the dhula" would be a good name for a metal album

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 15:42 (eight years ago)

"The heavy cost of the dhula" would be a good name for a metal album

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 15:42 (eight years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_ant

― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 9 June 2017 13:43 (eight years ago)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160411-spiders-snakes

― Do the eeeL Roll! (Leee), Friday, 9 June 2017 17:46 (eight years ago)

OOPS!

The page you requested cannot be found. Here are some stories you might like instead.

― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 9 June 2017 19:21 (eight years ago)

Derp, I didn't copy the whole URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160411-spiders-snakes-animals-science-prey-predators/

― Do the eeeL Roll! (Leee), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:07 (eight years ago)

nice

and then this classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wU-mSfpVUY

― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:11 (eight years ago)

Peculiar group of sea creatures found in deep Australian abyss https://t.co/5WtQziRTCO pic.twitter.com/l66QwStKpA
— IBTimes UK (@IBTimesUK) June 17, 2017

― 龜, Saturday, 17 June 2017 22:21 (eight years ago)

That coffinfish looks really disappointed. "PUT ME BACK."

― the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 18 June 2017 09:18 (eight years ago)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/pyrosome-fire-body-bloom-eastern-pacific-warm-water/

― 龜, Monday, 19 June 2017 20:44 (eight years ago)

http://www.businessinsider.com/cardinalfish-vomits-glowing-ostracod-2014-9

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 03:44 (eight years ago)

I wonder what makes BusinessInsider empathise with this little fish...

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 03:51 (eight years ago)

I have been laughing at that peen fish for a good five minutes.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:49 (eight years ago)

Fuck. Someone just walked by my computer and saw and I loudly exclaimed, "It's not a penis, it's a fish!"

. . .

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:52 (eight years ago)

great now animals are turning into dildos and swarming on beaches

― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 18:24 (eight years ago)

what do they think they are, politics?

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 18:40 (eight years ago)

http://bangordailynews.com/2017/06/19/news/midcoast/man-who-caused-brunswick-stink-by-dumping-dead-fish-in-bay-broke-no-law-says-maine-dmr/

stay in the sea you damn ocean beasts

― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 18:52 (eight years ago)

two months pass...

http://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/45585/image.jpg
the hummingbird clearwing moth

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 1 September 2017 16:27 (eight years ago)

GTFO with your photoshop nonsense

― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 2 September 2017 07:36 (eight years ago)

you would think, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyLSi11niWU

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:28 (eight years ago)

That's just a photoshop flipbook. (It is very cool)

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Saturday, 2 September 2017 18:04 (eight years ago)

Seeing it in motion is like woah.

― Germ Leee Adolescents (Leee), Saturday, 2 September 2017 22:30 (eight years ago)

Crazy awesome little pretty monster.

― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 3 September 2017 01:59 (eight years ago)

looks like a winged lobster

― 龜, Sunday, 3 September 2017 13:32 (eight years ago)

http://mythatchedhut.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Baltazar-2s.jpg

visit the cave of the bat-eating mexican ceiling snakes... with video!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/kantemo-bat-cave-hanging-serpents-snakes-yucatan-mexico-video/

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:40 (eight years ago)

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.H_QzXZLpoel6-CAExej_uQDyEC%26pid%3D15.1&f=1

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 18:05 (eight years ago)

that's right, a squid with human teeth

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 18:06 (eight years ago)

I know a human with squid teeth, so fair's far

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 21 September 2017 01:43 (eight years ago)

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dinosaurs-art-paleoartists-mistakes
http://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/46278/image.jpg

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 25 September 2017 14:25 (eight years ago)

Have spent part of today reading about octopus intelligence, and man they are amazing

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 10:19 (eight years ago)

Started from here https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker and went on into wonderland

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 10:23 (eight years ago)

Damn, son. That's fantastic. I now need to read those two books. What a compelling and well-written story. And what a beautiful and tragic creature.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 18:34 (eight years ago)

(if you've got more links please, do share!)

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 18:35 (eight years ago)

Have spent part of today reading about octopus intelligence, and man they are amazing

I've said before, the cephalapods are going to kill us all

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 18:38 (eight years ago)

This one is older and anthropomorphizes a lot, but it has amusing anecdotes and in the end is moving: https://orionmagazine.org/article/deep-intellect/

― Insane Clown Fosse (Leee), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 01:04 (eight years ago)

i have also been on an octopus kick
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/10/curious-case-octopus-wrestling/

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 13:26 (eight years ago)

Keffler also noted that, contrary to what you might think, the Giant Pacific octopus, despite being one of the world’s largest octopuses, isn’t actually terribly strong, certainly not enough to squeeze a person in any damaging way, nor are their beaks of any real concern.

>=(

Strong enough to kill a shark.

― Klingon T'Kuvma Why Don't You Love Mah? (Leee), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 20:46 (eight years ago)

Must-watch for cephalopd (esp. cuttlefish) fans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-cxg8mF_Lw

― Klingon T'Kuvma Why Don't You Love Mah? (Leee), Friday, 6 October 2017 20:42 (eight years ago)

has the duck with the gigantic corkscrew penis already been posted

― Karl Malone, Friday, 6 October 2017 21:00 (eight years ago)

you know what, even if it has

http://i.imgur.com/3qGJmDc.jpg

― Karl Malone, Friday, 6 October 2017 21:02 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://78.media.tumblr.com/939ab021b9a8a93ac6665969848b27ab/tumblr_oxzbhajHDm1vczpxxo1_500.gif

wottice dis

― 龜, Sunday, 29 October 2017 13:38 (eight years ago)

heroic spirit animal in an as-yet-to-be-titled studio ghibli film

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 30 October 2017 18:56 (eight years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clionidae

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:30 (eight years ago)

https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/167246775178/npr-sciencefriday-killer-cone-snail-venom-may

― Drunk Leeemoda (Leee), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 01:55 (eight years ago)

hi dere disturbing microaminals

http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/photo/2017-photomicrography-competition

http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/images/galleries/2017/main/4-SmallWorld2.jpg

http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/images/galleries/2017/main/HM-jumpingspideremrecanalagoz.jpg

http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/images/galleries/2017/main/IoD-WaterFlea.jpg

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:45 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAfyFTzZDMM

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:54 (eight years ago)

The mouth parts on this one! http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/entry/2017-photomicrography-competition/38

― Entree 3000 (Leee), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:19 (eight years ago)

microanimal #1 looks like Brak from Space Ghost

― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:28 (eight years ago)

a tape worm, I think?

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 9 November 2017 21:26 (eight years ago)

http://rpsscience.production.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/International-Images-for-Science/international-images-science-2017/gschmeissner_steve_mosquito_foot_aaa88ccca432.jpg

massive magnification of a mosquito's foot

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 10 November 2017 04:52 (eight years ago)

wild

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 10 November 2017 15:18 (eight years ago)

This splendid twitter thread on weird foxes will be worth your time

in the face of insomnia i will attempt to assign letter grades to the weird foxes. please stand by and watch this space for weird fox letter grades,, thank you
— Colin J Carlson (@ColinJCarlson) November 12, 2017

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 12 November 2017 20:50 (eight years ago)

:-)

cubism is alive and well

― Ludo, Sunday, 12 November 2017 20:56 (eight years ago)

excellent grading game by colin there

― mark s, Sunday, 12 November 2017 21:07 (eight years ago)

Couldn't see an flying foxes, so that's a demerit.

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 12 November 2017 21:10 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.instagram.com/rfedortsov/

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 27 November 2017 06:23 (eight years ago)

https://78.media.tumblr.com/f185da90d18b9a58453e8ae574eae874/tumblr_inline_oyerlj5HoK1qh595v_1280.jpg

https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/168133085343/amnhnyc-is-this-the-face-you-make-on-monday

― Hava Nagilum (Leee), Thursday, 7 December 2017 00:52 (eight years ago)

https://78.media.tumblr.com/bd6b00c08f6e24b472966d0c1bf1e616/tumblr_nchfyouJg71t6s9cjo1_1280.jpg

https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/168665430297/mooonjellies-spearfish

― FLCLeee (Leee), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 20:36 (eight years ago)

Looks delicious.

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 10:07 (eight years ago)

Like poached egg on cauliflower.

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 10:08 (eight years ago)

Taken at near noon in sunlight. A missed opportunity for something like this (taken at 25 m in the Maldives in 2014).

― Sanpaku, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 20:03 (eight years ago)

five months pass...

https://78.media.tumblr.com/558eb6930f366b8e3a9aee06a0d54cbd/tumblr_p7usycWakG1ui50dco1_540.jpg

The crabs are known for their signature move of always carrying a small living sea anemone around in each of its claws, which helps them catch food and protect themselves from predators (thought to resemble pom-poms or boxing gloves).

http://www2.padi.com/blog/2015/05/14/facts-about-the-pom-pom-crab/

― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:44 (seven years ago)

nature is awesome

― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 June 2018 08:51 (seven years ago)

https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/175029290848/oceanportal-fun-fact-3-for-most-cephalopods

― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:54 (seven years ago)

Lots of paper nautilus links this week, here's a good one: https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-seamstress-and-the-secrets-of-the-argonaut-shell/

― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Thursday, 21 June 2018 19:39 (seven years ago)

Really interesting! Thanks.

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 21 June 2018 19:49 (seven years ago)

That is a great article.

― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 July 2018 04:36 (seven years ago)

Meet the meme-friendly axolotl: https://www.quantamagazine.org/axolotl-genome-slowly-yields-secrets-of-limb-regrowth-20180702/

― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Thursday, 5 July 2018 21:30 (seven years ago)

three months pass...

https://youtu.be/VCJnlpUY-3g

Sea harbors xenomorph shocker.

― The Finger Thing Means the Taxes (Leee), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:21 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.boston.com/news/animals/2018/12/07/hawaiian-monk-seals-eels-noses

― From Damage Inc. to Metallica Inc. (Leee), Friday, 7 December 2018 23:16 (seven years ago)

Wow. That is...just, wow.

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 7 December 2018 23:56 (seven years ago)

I love this weird planet.

― From Damage Inc. to Metallica Inc. (Leee), Saturday, 8 December 2018 00:07 (seven years ago)

Researchers have already determined this is not the result of a human with a personal vendetta against seals and eels because all the cases were reported from remote islands that are only frequented by scientists.

I mean...how would someone even go about doing something like that anyway?

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 8 December 2018 00:13 (seven years ago)

It's probably just hip. And everyone knows that having an eel hanging out of our left nostril is the gay nostril.

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 8 December 2018 00:15 (seven years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://ourblueplanet.bbcearth.com/blog/?article=incredible-sex-changing-fish-from-blue-planet

― Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 06:11 (seven years ago)

https://youtu.be/u7QXdlSBGGY

― Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Sunday, 6 January 2019 17:52 (seven years ago)

A Sometimes Tadpole.

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 6 January 2019 20:04 (seven years ago)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/amazing-pictures-of-fish-other-freshwater-river-wildlife/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=sunstills_20190113::rid=29522540095#/river-life-oregonpacificlamprey_freshwaterlife_freshwatersillustrated.jpg

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:50 (seven years ago)

those photos are amazing... the one of the newts is like a bosch painting.

― visiting, Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:08 (seven years ago)

agreed; the whole spread is worth exploring. The lamprey though...

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:04 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.southernfriedscience.com/your-car-has-just-been-crushed-by-hagfish-frequently-asked-questions/

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 05:39 (seven years ago)

Hagfish Day is the third Wednesday in October.

― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Monday, 28 January 2019 07:16 (seven years ago)

http://mentalfloss.com/article/60129/11-fascinating-facts-about-frilled-shark

― Stateleee, Plump Buck Mulleeegan (Leee), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:19 (seven years ago)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/half-male-half-female-cardinal-pennsylvania/

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:24 (six years ago)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/02/unicorn-praying-mantis-discovered-atlantic-forest
photos deliver

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 14 February 2019 20:28 (six years ago)

The colors!

― A Grape Ape Agape (Leee), Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:02 (six years ago)

https://phys.org/news/2016-04-sexual-reproduction-rotifers-scavenge-genes.html

Sequencing a bdelloid rotifer genome produced a big surprise, as about 8% of the genes looked foreign. Some genes were typical of fungi or bacteria, and endowed the rotifer with handy new properties such as breaking down toxins or using new foodstuffs. This "horizontal transfer" between rotifers and other organisms is ancient and ongoing.
Foreign DNA is spread all over the rotifer genome. So how did it get there? It seems that dehydration makes holes in cell membranes that can suck up DNA. The rotifers' efficient mechanism for repairing double stranded DNA breaks in dehydrated animals is perfect for incorporating foreign DNA into the genome.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2016-04-sexual-reproduction-rotifers-scavenge-genes.html#jCp

― Gaseous Clay (Leee), Friday, 22 February 2019 00:00 (six years ago)

That's quite amazing!

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 22 February 2019 00:27 (six years ago)

Aww: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/horizontal-gene-transfer-in-bdelloid-rotifers-questioned-64483

TLDR dirty test tubes may have contaminated the DNA sequencing, so the intraspecies horizontal gene transfer is still an open question.

― Gaseous Clay (Leee), Friday, 22 February 2019 00:40 (six years ago)

five months pass...

Plants are weird too! https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/mystery-undead-tree-stump/594673/

With extra credit for this beautiful arrangement:

Underground, trees are intimately connected. The fungi on their roots can wire adjacent individuals to one another and ferry nutrients between them, creating what ecologists have come to call a “wood-wide web.”

― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Thursday, 25 July 2019 23:02 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

Parasitic barnacles! https://youtu.be/B9_RUwR3RFU?t=375

― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 21:17 (six years ago)

one month passes...

Rapacious caterpillar!

https://youtu.be/2zfNDvT28rU

― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Sunday, 15 September 2019 16:22 (six years ago)

that thing looks delicious

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 15 September 2019 19:58 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

spiders flying on electrostatic waves
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:17 (six years ago)

Amazing!

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 22:20 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn7zl2zdLW0
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101784365
http://i.imgur.com/Mguk9Mv.png

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:12 (six years ago)

Bat, no way, more like skeklek!

― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:14 (six years ago)

If wee bats are flying mice this is a flying capybara.

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 12 October 2019 18:01 (six years ago)

lol, bronx zoo just sent me an eblast; check out these d-holes
http://i.imgur.com/UX1xYlW.png

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:15 (six years ago)

Who's a cute dhole?

― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 18:14 (six years ago)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-17/paris-zoo-unveils-blob-organism-with-720-sexes/11610804

"We know for sure it is not a plant but we don't really know if it's an animal or a fungus," Mr David said. "It behaves very surprisingly for something that looks like a mushroom … it has the behaviour of an animal, it is able to learn."

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 October 2019 14:37 (six years ago)

Amazing!

― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:30 (six years ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/science/loudest-bird-bellbird.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQlxGDNc2c8
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/10/21/science/21tb-loudbird/21tb-loudbird-jumbo.jpg

The white bellbird’s second song type is louder than a jackhammer, and approaches, “at its peak, the amplitude of a pile driver” — around 125 decibels, said Dr. Podos. That makes it three times more intense than the call of the screaming piha, the previous record-holder for loudness.
The researchers also discovered a trade-off between song length and amplitude — the more intense the song’s peak, the less time it lasted. “If sexual selection keeps pushing the song to be louder and louder, it’s going to become shorter and shorter,” said Dr. Podos.
One big mystery remains. The white bellbird sings its pile driver tune when a potential mate is nearby. It starts facing away from her, and then whips around to blast the loudest, record-setting note right into her face.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 15:46 (six years ago)

Is that its natural call? Crazy! (There's another bird that mimics human-made noises like jackhammers.)

― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 16:44 (six years ago)

fuuuuuuuuuuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QdiT3W6KAM

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 27 October 2019 03:22 (six years ago)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/10/24/rats-are-capable-driving-tiny-cars-researchers-found-it-eases-their-anxiety/

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:40 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

Dragonfly covered in morning dew. pic.twitter.com/XPgqxilJWe
— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) November 7, 2019

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 10 November 2019 16:46 (six years ago)

Dragonfly covered in morning dew. pic.twitter.com/XPgqxilJWe
— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) November 7, 2019

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 10 November 2019 16:46 (six years ago)

Some of the most interesting mimicry I’ve ever seen — the wings of this moth (Macrocilix maia) mimic two flies feasting on bird droppings. pic.twitter.com/RdYJOcqYoc
— Dorsa Amir (@DorsaAmir) November 9, 2019

― Number None, Monday, 11 November 2019 16:25 (six years ago)

very alexander mcqueen

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 November 2019 16:41 (six years ago)

one month passes...

i wish this was more clicky for more info but still fun:
https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 12 December 2019 18:55 (six years ago)

Big ups to the Emperor penguin as the furthest-diving bird, and the elephant seal as the deepest mammal (non-cetacean division).

And faceless fish is a worthy google.

― Scorsese runs afoul of the Irishman (Leee), Friday, 13 December 2019 00:47 (six years ago)

To wit: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t9rvmtokynpcz7lvhdt2.png

https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/faceless-fish-looks-happier-and-heartier-it-did-1887

― Scorsese runs afoul of the Irishman (Leee), Friday, 13 December 2019 01:58 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO8jNSdxyqI

http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Anhima_cornuta/

Horned screamers are large, heavy bodied, fowl-like birds that are most recognizable by their two bone spurs at the bend of each wing and the 15 cm, yellowish-white horn-like projection at the top of their heads. The 2 to 5 cm long bone spurs are a result of fused carpel bones and are covered with keratin. The horn-like projection, which gives these birds their name, is composed of cartilage. When young are born they lack the horn but it slowly grows as they age. Horns seem to be ornamental as they do not have a defensive purpose. They are not firmly attached to the skull, swing back and forth as the birds’ heads move, and are easily broken off. After breaking off they will grow back over time.
Most of their bones are permeated with abundant air sacs that also exist in the subcutaneous tissue in the dermis of the skin. This construction results in a rumbling or crackling noise when these birds take off as the air sacs rapidly collapse. The presence of subcutaneous air sac diverticula allows horned screamers to regularly use soaring flight instead of using muscle energy to remain airborne. These air filled spaces may also act to facilitate pneumatic movement.
Horned screamers are less vocal than their relatives, southern screamers, but their vocalizations are very loud. There are three main vocalizations: “mo-coo-ca”, a honking “yoik-yok”, and the trumpet.

― (dubstep violin original song) (unregistered), Saturday, 14 December 2019 05:36 (six years ago)

jesus fuck, that's nightmare fuel right there

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 December 2019 05:42 (six years ago)

Ed Thoreum
11 months ago
we are lucky to see this most perfect wonder.
Their lung or ribs have evolved to an advantage stage; the can fly, swim and ruN. Thank you!!

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 December 2019 17:08 (six years ago)

https://media.nature.com/lw800/magazine-assets/d41586-019-03839-z/d41586-019-03839-z_17507782.jpg

This image of a frog on a lotus leaf in Lalitpur, Nepal, is a stunning example of the ‘lotus effect’. This refers to self-cleaning properties of lotus leaves, which result from their water-repellent properties. Particles of dirt — or, in this case, a whole frog — are caught by droplets, which bead as a result of the surface’s nanostructure. Scientists first described the lotus effect in the 1970s, and it has since been used in many applications. For me, the image illustrates that, once again, mimicking nature is one of humankind’s best strategies for progress.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03839-z

― Martialarts Ali (Leee), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:15 (six years ago)

wow

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:33 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

Not weird per se but still an engrossing story! https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/how-a-guy-from-a-montana-trailer-park-upturned-150-years-of-biology/491702/

― Camina Burana Drummer (Leee), Friday, 3 January 2020 21:22 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://youtu.be/XFjoqyVRmOU

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 18 January 2020 12:58 (six years ago)

weird plants that look like animals
https://www.audubon.org/news/did-plant-evolve-look-bunch-hummingbirds

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 25 January 2020 07:30 (six years ago)

The links to the chick pretending to be a caterpillar and the caterpillar pretending to be a snake are also great.

― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Sunday, 26 January 2020 01:36 (six years ago)

Fluorescent pink slug

― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 07:52 (six years ago)

tongue on the loose

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 12:20 (six years ago)

welp

The Pearlfish will seek food and shelter in the anus of a Sea Cucumber pic.twitter.com/xomQoabuvy
— Nature is Lit🔥 (@NaturelsLit) January 28, 2020

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:53 (six years ago)

two months pass...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/science/longest-animal-ocean.html

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 14:24 (five years ago)

That octopus squid with the glowing tips of its arms!

― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Thursday, 16 April 2020 00:17 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saMq36vh9ls

― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Saturday, 18 April 2020 21:23 (five years ago)

that's a weird animal

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 18 April 2020 21:48 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

Jackal food is a parasitic plant native to Africa that siphons off nutrients from other plants' roots. Its flowers surface after heavy rainfall & emit a carrion-like stench to attract pollinators. Its fruit is similar to a potato & attracts animals like jackals.

[📸: E. Black] pic.twitter.com/4wtqbhYG3Q
— American Museum of Natural History (@AMNH) May 4, 2020

― i am a horse girl (map), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:40 (five years ago)

weird but not animal

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:45 (five years ago)

Gonna pass on reading the comments there

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:50 (five years ago)

More weirdness from previously featured Osedax aka zombie worms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZdP216pq7c

― Osedax Church (Leee), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:21 (five years ago)

one month passes...

https://youtu.be/SCm3aDq_sfA

Nurseryfish!

― AxoLOLtl (Leee), Saturday, 4 July 2020 05:46 (five years ago)

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-strange-and-gruesome-story-of-the-greenland-shark-the-longest-living-vertebrate-on-earth

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/07/caecilians-amphibians-venomous-saliva/

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 11 July 2020 06:58 (five years ago)

tho both of those stories are fucking goldmines, only the latter contains this picture

http://i.imgur.com/BUxYEUK.png

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 11 July 2020 07:02 (five years ago)

Thanks for the nightmare fuel. Another fun fact from that article that I wasn't aware of before is that slow lorises -- primates -- are also venomous.

― AxoLOLtl (Leee), Saturday, 11 July 2020 16:00 (five years ago)

funny story that
https://www.popsci.com/article/science/venomous-slow-loris-may-have-evolved-mimic-cobras/

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:01 (five years ago)

Venomous underarms!

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:08 (five years ago)

That they lick when threatened! 0.0

― AxoLOLtl (Leee), Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:21 (five years ago)

We haven't linked anything from the ocean deep animal in a while: https://www.cnet.com/news/ultra-black-fish-reveal-secrets-of-deep-dark-ocean-camouflage/

― AxoLOLtl (Leee), Friday, 17 July 2020 18:14 (five years ago)

Oh and I meant to add a link to this caecilian: http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2012/08/ugly-and-not-safe-for-work.html

― AxoLOLtl (Leee), Friday, 17 July 2020 18:15 (five years ago)

Time for cuteness

NEW FAVOURITE ANIMAL ALERT: Leafsheep. Only animal that can photosynthesize

NEW FAVOURITE ANIMAL ALERT: Leafsheep. Only animal that can photosynthesize pic.twitter.com/iphILB6P0I
— L.e (@termiteinmyhead) July 15, 2020

― willem, Friday, 17 July 2020 18:59 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

URL delivers
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/science/beetle-frog-poop.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=qbefo_vUzog

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 August 2020 20:24 (five years ago)

When they reach the end of that tunnel, the insects may be able to tickle open the cloacal sphincter, the ring of muscle that drawstrings the frog’s rear end shut, expelling themselves in a flood of feces.

― ||||||||, Monday, 3 August 2020 21:54 (five years ago)

lol yes that bit caught my eye too.

― Garry Shambling (Leee), Monday, 3 August 2020 22:04 (five years ago)

it's a hell of a detail

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:58 (five years ago)

https://youtu.be/FXmVW0MMYFI

― Garry Shambling (Leee), Sunday, 9 August 2020 17:02 (five years ago)

The curious dance of the saci, also known as the striped cuckoo.

🎥 Ednilson Pereira. pic.twitter.com/2eQLkaGEA4
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) August 9, 2020

― snakes & cookies (doo dah), Saturday, 15 August 2020 23:06 (five years ago)

let a million WAP videos bloom

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 16 August 2020 05:34 (five years ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/science/reptile-long-neck-fossil.html
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/08/12/science/12TB-REPTILE1/12TB-REPTILE1-superJumbo.jpg

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 17 August 2020 15:02 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/us/lystrosaurus-oldest-known-hibernation-trnd/index.html
http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200830163933-lystrosaurus-file-exlarge-169.jpg

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 4 September 2020 17:33 (five years ago)

Lystrosaurus's weirdness is eclipsed only by its pathetic ugliness. Never will a child name it as their favorite saurus, ever.

― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:45 (five years ago)

this animal's kinda weird - why is it jumping into leaf piles? for what reason? it is weird to do things for no apparent reason

https://youtu.be/Tu3HN-MmJc4

― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:46 (five years ago)

oh it's like that huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3HN-MmJc4

― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:47 (five years ago)

Does the animal think that there is potentially food or a mate inside of the leaf pile, with which it may fulfill its biological imperatives? I do not understand

― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:50 (five years ago)

I think that lystrosaurus is adorable, WKIW

― sleeve, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:51 (five years ago)

Lystrosaurus gurgles a barely audible "THANK YOU, FRIEND" at you from its pus-encrusted mouth/anus combination orifice

― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:55 (five years ago)

Lystrosaurus is the ORNALDO BLOOMPS of Pokemon.

― Ruth Bae Ginsburg (Leee), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:20 (five years ago)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46258616

― Ruth Bae Ginsburg (Leee), Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:36 (five years ago)

"We opened those intestines up like it was Christmas"

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:49 (five years ago)

lol that stood out to me as well

― sleeve, Saturday, 12 September 2020 01:07 (five years ago)

(totally fascinating, btw)

― sleeve, Saturday, 12 September 2020 01:07 (five years ago)

Very much so!

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 12 September 2020 01:14 (five years ago)

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1769/2959/products/Wombat_poo_500x500.jpeg?v=1560320854

― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 12 September 2020 01:55 (five years ago)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/the-beetle-that-pretends-to-be-an-army-ants-butt/516522/

― Ruth Bae Ginsburg (Leee), Thursday, 17 September 2020 00:13 (five years ago)

Excellent.

Went down a rabbit hole from that which led me to witness the following sentence fragment

mites in the genus Adactylidium, which mate inside the body of their mother before they are born

― imago, Thursday, 17 September 2020 08:07 (five years ago)

This is life

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adactylidium

― imago, Thursday, 17 September 2020 08:09 (five years ago)

That is metal, gross, and amazing.

― Ruth Bae Ginsburg (Leee), Thursday, 17 September 2020 18:16 (five years ago)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-54284952

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:11 (five years ago)

weird heroes

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:13 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwxV1wbBrfU

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 5 October 2020 14:44 (five years ago)

the high lonesome sound

― Splack Packath (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 5 October 2020 15:06 (five years ago)

I think my neighbour has one of these...

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Monday, 5 October 2020 15:20 (five years ago)

some beautiful pictures in here. a sub to Nat Geo is still worth it btw.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/10/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year/

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 15 October 2020 18:32 (five years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/science/african-crested-rat-poison.html

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:14 (five years ago)

Two interesting tidbits:

Rodents can't vomit.

This:

While doing field work in Kenya, Dr. Weinstein was horrified when a gang of monkeys broke into her lab and absconded with some of the team’s crested rat fecal samples. In the chase that ensued, some of the packets of poop ripped open, scattering scat all about.
“The monkeys, I think, were equally disappointed,” Dr. Weinstein said. “That’s not what they were hoping was in there.”

― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 01:54 (five years ago)

Excellent weird animal content

― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 20:24 (five years ago)

all time intro para imo

For a rodent that resembles the love child of a skunk and a steel wool brush, the African crested rat carries itself with a surprising amount of swagger. The rats “very much have the personality of something that knows it’s poisonous,” says Sara Weinstein, a biologist at the University of Utah and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute who studies them.

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:32 (five years ago)

BEAUTIFUL: A ribbon eel swimming by. pic.twitter.com/QpJgjEpwIm
— Oceana (@oceana) December 8, 2020

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2020 19:02 (five years ago)

seamless gif

― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 11 December 2020 19:28 (five years ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/science/pandas-horse-poop.html
with this key bit of info

“Maybe it’s like Vicks VapoRub, or maybe like Tiger Balm,” Dr. McShea said, describing the tingly feeling they cause.
“I don’t know, though,” he added. “I’ve never rolled in horse manure.”

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:41 (five years ago)

lol and gross. BTW, that article spurred me to check the Wikipedia entry for pandas to see if any changes have been made to their classification, and I was honestly surprised to see that they are true bears after all!

― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Monday, 14 December 2020 22:48 (five years ago)

that eel is my friend

― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 00:44 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

NEW TURTLE DROPPED
NEW TURTLE DROPPED
NEW TURTLE DROPPEDhttps://t.co/yQ88pRxVvP
— Be Just & Fear Not | Let None Survive (@SuperNerdMike) December 22, 2020

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 January 2021 12:43 (five years ago)

of all the articles not to use photos for...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/02/opinion/sunday/2020-animal-news.html

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:23 (five years ago)

also I posted this in the streaming thread but it's more appropriate here:

Something new/old that i got into this week is NHK Japan's DEEP OCEAN from 2015, which is four episodes of super alien deep sea ichthyology narrated by David Attenborough that will leave you in constant amazement at the weirdness of the natural plan. Get to know the jellynose fish! The Mariana snailfish! The bioluminescent barbeled dragonfish!
The best part: Joe Hisaishi, the music director responsible for all the Ghibli/Miyazaki films did the score for the whole series and it is FUCKING MAGICAL. I can see rewatching this for sleepytimes in perpetuity.
It was recently ported over to HBO Max in the US, though the fourth episode (set in the Antarctic) is oddly AWOL. You should try it!

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:25 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHXpMN-wZuU

― ledge, Monday, 4 January 2021 14:03 (five years ago)

Wild! It looks like a kindergartener's craft project.

― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Monday, 4 January 2021 19:16 (five years ago)

"The ONLY LGBT-friendly fish dating sim!"
https://joffeorama.itch.io/benthic-love

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 January 2021 23:41 (five years ago)

meet the genetically-identical potentially-invasive Marmorkrebs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_crayfish

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 January 2021 18:16 (five years ago)

http://www.sci-news.com/biology/myotis-nimbaensis-09249.html
http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/2021/01/image_9249_2-Myotis-nimbaensis.jpg

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 January 2021 03:23 (five years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/ZNWbrl4.png

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 January 2021 03:25 (five years ago)

This chonky boy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7foAsAfuAXo

― Sammy Agar-Agar (Leee), Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:04 (five years ago)

the jug-band call is great and i love their temple-sweeped "ears"

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:59 (five years ago)

okay folks: we got ancient genitals

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/science/assassin-bug-penis-fossil.html

Among them were the insect’s basal plate, a stirrup-like structure, and hints of the pouch-like phallotheca, which supports the penis. In living assassin bugs, the entire package looks not unlike a Darth Vader mask, or a translucent athletic cup.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/science/dinosaur-cloaca-fossil.html

Dr. Kelly said she strongly suspected that most dinosaurs would have been of the penis-toting variety: “For the most part, if you have internal fertilization, you have some method of sticking it in.”

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 16:56 (five years ago)

hot

― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:36 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl_MbvSUvTk

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 January 2021 07:54 (five years ago)

33-Year-Old Bat: I am the night.

Caretakers: You are an adorable senior citizen. pic.twitter.com/pgxAa9JORG
— Sonya The Outsider (@sable_sonya) February 2, 2021

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 19:50 (five years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/qkyeCoZ.png
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2021/01/tiny-chameleon-smallest-reptile-discovered-madagascar/

Scientists have discovered a tiny new species of chameleon in a patch of rainforest in northern Madagascar. This so-called nano-chameleon is about the size of a sunflower seed, fits on the tip of a finger, and may be the smallest reptile on Earth.
Officially known as Brookesia nana, or B. nana for short, the new species is so tiny it’s thought to survive on a diet of mites and springtails, which it hunts down in leaf litter.
Finding such a small reptile raises interesting questions about the lower limits of body size in vertebrates. It also highlights the astonishing—and highly threatened—biodiversity of Madagascar. Scientists suspect the chameleon will soon be listed as critically endangered.

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 February 2021 02:56 (five years ago)

B.nana!!!!

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 February 2021 02:56 (five years ago)

In other wholesome weird animal news, would you believe a vegetarian spider?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygn8V5mHUBk

― Mike Mignola Electric Co. (Leee), Friday, 5 February 2021 21:16 (five years ago)

The horrifying feeding habits of the world's largest single celled organisms in Antarctica

In Antarctica, there’s a single-celled foram that’s big enough for you to see and even pick up. And it is possibly the most terrifying predator on Earth. pic.twitter.com/WZUb1vBb13
— 𒇷 𒁯𒅗 (@Lee__Drake) February 6, 2021

― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 7 February 2021 11:25 (four years ago)

that is bonkers

― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 7 February 2021 15:41 (four years ago)

holy shit

― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Sunday, 7 February 2021 16:12 (four years ago)

Terrifying, but also not an animal, which are all multicellular.

― Mike Mignola Electric Co. (Leee), Sunday, 7 February 2021 17:38 (four years ago)

Sorry, that comes off as gatekeepy! Whatever its taxonomy, it's a cool addition!

― Mike Mignola Electric Co. (Leee), Sunday, 7 February 2021 17:43 (four years ago)

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-discover-strange-creatures-under-a-half-mile-of-ice
not super charismatic but the video is dope

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 February 2021 16:11 (four years ago)

Ibex are fucking insane btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 February 2021 20:00 (four years ago)

why not put out a salt lick you assholes

― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 18 February 2021 22:32 (four years ago)

lol srsly

― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Thursday, 18 February 2021 23:18 (four years ago)

gotta get that sweet sweet footage

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 February 2021 23:30 (four years ago)

whoa
http://i.imgur.com/VfwaTwY.png
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-science/king-penguin-captivates-world-its-rare-dandelion-colored-plumage-180977070/

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:40 (four years ago)

re: Ibex, y'all really missed out on the "They crave that mineral" meme?

― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Monday, 1 March 2021 18:09 (four years ago)

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/882/052/483.png

― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Monday, 1 March 2021 18:10 (four years ago)

new one on me. i am all for more ibex memes.

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:34 (four years ago)

Glow in the dark shark dropped, at nearly six feet long it is the largest known bioluminescent vertebrate

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56256808
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/174D/production/_117356950_fmars-08-633582-g003.jpg

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2021 18:24 (four years ago)

separately, cuttlefish show more restraint than gen xers
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/cuttlefish-can-pass-the-marshmallow-test/

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2021 18:25 (four years ago)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/this-sea-slug-can-lose-its-head-and-regenerate-new-body-in-three-weeks/

― RZA Minnelli (Leee), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:35 (four years ago)

yeah, i kept meaning to post that. what a fuckin' weirdo!

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 23:26 (four years ago)

The urutaú, or ghost bird, is known for its cry similar to a human wail and is rarely seen during the day. pic.twitter.com/s90dQld7y8
— 🌊🌊Raymond Alvarado, LLM🌊🌊 (@Raymond_LLM) March 9, 2021

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 23:49 (four years ago)

Thirsty worms done in by their thirst: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cone-snail-venom-sea-worms-pheromones

― Eleanor of Accutane (Leee), Friday, 19 March 2021 00:55 (four years ago)

That Cornetto looks tasty.

― mirostones, Friday, 19 March 2021 03:23 (four years ago)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/hundreds-of-new-and-unusual-insects-discovered-in-the-amazon-canopy-feature?loggedin=true
super beautiful images here

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 March 2021 19:52 (four years ago)

and one more
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/skeleton-photos-getting-boost-gelatin-fluorescent-light

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 March 2021 19:53 (four years ago)

\m/__OO__\m/

http://i.imgur.com/1Y2sT35.png

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 March 2021 19:55 (four years ago)

old, but wow

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thoughts-of-a-spiderweb-20170523/

― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Monday, 22 March 2021 23:43 (four years ago)

https://www.amnh.org/calendar/pteropods

Geologist Rosie Oakes will introduce us to the world of pteropods–tiny ocean creatures that migrate more than 650 feet (200 meters) every day from the surface to the bottom of the sea. Find out about the function of these fascinating critters within the larger ocean ecosystem, as well as their daily struggles as they fight predators, currents, and pollution in order to survive, in this family-friendly presentation.

Join the Facebook watch party on Thursday, March 25, at 2 pm ET, or view on this page at the designated time.

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:14 (four years ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/science/blackwater-photography-fish-larvae.html
This whole deep-sea photography piece is a delight but especially

http://i.imgur.com/BeRYITs.png

... which i am recommending people start posting as a meme to any music discussion where they're fed up with the dialogue

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 15:32 (four years ago)

Who sez scientists don't have a sense of humor?

― Ovid-19 (Leee), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 23:57 (four years ago)

Microscopic wasps are weird:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb5Q-wQh4GI

― Ovid-19 (Leee), Sunday, 4 April 2021 16:13 (four years ago)

https://gizmodo.com/these-mutant-rabbits-walk-on-two-legs-and-geneticists-1846562358

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 April 2021 19:21 (four years ago)

Ok, that's a weird one

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 08:34 (four years ago)

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit%2Cf_auto%2Cg_center%2Cpg_1%2Cq_60%2Cw_965/io3s71xgqcor9iliz1py.png
come on now
https://gizmodo.com/adorable-porg-pterosaur-flapped-above-jurassic-china-1846696801

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:05 (four years ago)

Lots of pterosaurs in the news lately: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/monkeydactyl-jurassic-pterosaur-oldest-fossil-opposable-thumbs

― Tahini Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 23:02 (four years ago)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/conservation-cant-just-be-a-popularity-contest

Save the Numbat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coyix7w4u_c

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 April 2021 20:08 (four years ago)

also:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/n0bdch/the_tallest_mallard_duck_to_have_ever_lived_since/

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 April 2021 22:17 (four years ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/science/instagrammable-bird-frogmouth.html

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 May 2021 20:16 (four years ago)

“I thought this method, the I.A.A. score, will be a great tool to investigate bird photographs in terms of aesthetic appeal and inform people which birds are the most photogenic,” said Dr. Hayn-Leichsenring, also a postdoctoral researcher at University Hospital Jena. “Or possibly, I just wondered why nobody likes my own bird photographs.”

― Tahini Coates (Leee), Friday, 7 May 2021 20:43 (four years ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/05/giant-wood-moth-found-queensland-australia-school
fuuuuu
http://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f12614c6b69bbf1443fd074f37c55d4b1557a64f/0_54_720_432/master/720.jpg

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 May 2021 16:28 (four years ago)

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
http://i.imgur.com/nrubdtl.png

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 May 2021 16:29 (four years ago)

Content 4 U

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2021/5/5/22408390/crazy-jumping-worms-invasive-earthworm-garden-soil

https://www.kqed.org/science/468582/the-once-in-a-lifetime-ladybug-love-in

http://livescience.com/marine-worm-with-100-butts.html

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:27 (four years ago)

https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/552711-beachgoer-stumbles-on-rarely-seen-deep-sea

― Tahini Coates (Leee), Thursday, 13 May 2021 22:57 (four years ago)

Also the polybutt worm definitely makes our threat to make a quiz out of weird animal butts that much closer to reality.

― Tahini Coates (Leee), Thursday, 13 May 2021 23:14 (four years ago)

butts ahoy

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 May 2021 21:49 (four years ago)

Now more than ever

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/05/evolution-butts/618915/

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:20 (four years ago)

ICYMI

Fungus full of psychedelic drugs could cause Indiana Brood X cicadas' butts to fall off

― sleeve, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 19:22 (four years ago)

it's a hot butt summer

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 May 2021 02:29 (four years ago)

Yeti crabs eat bacteria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgH0ThP0qtY

Hoatzins, the clawed (barely) flying cows of birds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HytWfqWYUQ

― Elementary, My Dear Hoatzin (Leee), Friday, 21 May 2021 00:55 (four years ago)

Yeti crabs eat bacteria

Who amongst us etc etc

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 28 May 2021 02:40 (four years ago)

and LO! there came THE TEETH OF THE WANDERING MEATLOAF to make your 3D printer more efficient

http://i.imgur.com/9VwBSme.png

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/science/mollusk-wandering-meatloaf-santabarbaraite.html

The gumboot chiton is not a glamorous creature. The large, lumpy mollusk creeps along the waters of the Pacific coast, pulling its reddish-brown body up and down the shoreline. It is sometimes known, not unreasonably, as “the wandering meatloaf.” But the chiton’s unassuming body hides an array of tiny but formidable teeth. These teeth, which the creature uses to scrape algae from rocks, are among the hardest materials known to exist in a living organism.
Now, a team of scientists has discovered a surprising ingredient in the chiton’s rock-hard dentition: a rare, iron-based mineral that previously had been found only in actual rocks. Tiny particles of the mineral, which is strong but lightweight, help harden the root of the mollusk’s teeth, the researchers reported in the journal PNAS on Monday.

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 17:31 (four years ago)

I should have been a meatloaf, wondering the floors of silent seas

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 12:40 (four years ago)

good shots in here
https://www.bigpicturecompetition.org/2021-winners

― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 June 2021 21:50 (four years ago)

Vocal mimicry is reasonably common in birds, but European starlings are particularly gifted mimics. As this clip shows. Just incredible. https://t.co/pbfGD8sT9b pic.twitter.com/9sLenFJ1az
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) June 5, 2021

― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 21:15 (four years ago)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-sea-snot
charming

Sea snot is more scientifically known as “marine mucilage,” and it’s an ecosystem of its own. In a 2009 paper in the journal PLOS One, a team of scientists led by Roberto Danovaro, a marine biologist at Italy’s Polytechnic University of Marche, described it as a “gelatinous” stage of marine snow, the jumble of organic material—such as feces and fragments of dead plants and animals—that drifts from the surface to the ocean floor.
The snot is produced by a bunch of microorganisms, one Turkish research team explained in a UNESCO bulletin called Harmful Algae News, especially microalgae known as diatoms. These petite algae are known to exude polysaccharides, sugary carbohydrates that can get quite sticky. Sampling sea snot that clotted several locations in the Sea of Marmara in 2007 and 2008, the researchers also identified species of dinoflagellates and more.

― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:12 (four years ago)

welcome to my nightmare
i think you're gonna like it

📹 Watch a moray eating on land, caught on video for the first time!

🎣While most fish need water to feed, a new study by @ucsc researcher Rita Mehta has found that snowflake moray eels have an extra set of jaws in their throats that allows them to grab & swallow prey on land. pic.twitter.com/Pf6Wi4EbCn
— UC Santa Cruz Science (@UCSCscience) June 14, 2021

― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 June 2021 07:01 (four years ago)

More wombats and their butts: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/04/wombats-deadly-bums-how-they-use-their-skull-crushing-rumps-to-fight-play-and-flirt

― BABA BUOY (Leee), Thursday, 1 July 2021 18:04 (four years ago)

i had no idea!

that moray video blew up thanks to a clever headline which i won't bother repeating and i got annoyed at everyone forwarding it to me.

― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 3 July 2021 04:05 (four years ago)

You should repeat it.

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 3 July 2021 04:45 (four years ago)

Sigh:
When an eel climbs a ramp to eat meals from a clamp that’s a moray

― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 3 July 2021 05:13 (four years ago)

Ah, it’s ok.

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 3 July 2021 14:43 (four years ago)

I loved that headline, I did not forward it to anyone tho.

― heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Sunday, 4 July 2021 20:59 (four years ago)

Beavers are kinda weird, but mostly just awesome. And this story rules.

A dry California creek bed looked like a wildfire risk. Then the beavers went to work

Seven years ago, ecologists looking to restore a dried-out Placer County floodplain faced a choice: Spend at least $1 million bringing in heavy machines to revive habitat or try a new approach.
They went for the second option, and turned to nature’s original flood manager to do the work — the beaver.
The creek bed, altered by decades of agricultural use, had looked like a wildfire risk. It came back to life far faster than anticipated after the beavers began building dams that retained water longer.
“It was insane, it was awesome,” said Lynnette Batt, the conservation director of the Placer Land Trust, which owns and maintains the Doty Ravine Preserve.
“It went from dry grassland. .. to totally revegetated, trees popping up, willows, wetland plants of all types, different meandering stream channels across about 60 acres of floodplain,” she said.
The Doty Ravine project cost about $58,000, money that went toward preparing the site for beavers to do their work.
In comparison, a traditional constructed restoration project using heavy equipment across that much land could cost $1 to $2 million, according to Batt.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 4 July 2021 23:32 (four years ago)

that absolutely rules

― sleeve, Monday, 5 July 2021 02:43 (four years ago)

“The beaver on land is like a chicken nugget walking through the landscape for predators,” said Emily Fairfax, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Resource Management at California State University Channel Islands. “They’re fat and they’re slow and anything would be glad to have them for a meal.”

― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 03:44 (four years ago)

Beavers are crazy. I once came across a huge old tree in the middle of the forest that had been felled by beavers. I imagine the fucker after a week’s worth of chewing, as the tree crashes to the ground, just being totally triumphant. Then, as the reverberations of the crash faded, looking at this massive log lying there and being like “what the fuck do I do with this now?”

― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 05:00 (four years ago)

A lot of people in Alaska believe that beaver tail has some kind of hallucinogenic properties, or at least that it gets you high in some way if you eat it. This is probably a myth. My uncle Rif claims that it makes you sick but also gives you superpowers; he says that once, when his band was playing in a village, the guitar player ate some beaver tail, got terrible diarrhea, and played the best guitar of his life.

― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 05:23 (four years ago)

Sigh:
When an eel climbs a ramp to eat meals from a clamp that’s a moray

It's a handy mnemonic tbh

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 14:20 (four years ago)

some nightmare fuel here
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/seed-beetle-sex/619369
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/MmJCDqn6gJO8dH3UsqBhU2K6C5g%3D/672x840/media/img/posts/2021/07/Photo_by_Johanna_Ronn-1/original.jpg

― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 10 July 2021 14:44 (four years ago)

can't tell if it's more or less nightmare-fueling to know that that's a picture of a penis.

the author had good fun with euphemisms for beetle jizz

There may even be some more instantaneous positives for the females who couple up with superlatively spiked males. Arnqvist’s team found that females who mated with males from the long-spined lineage laid more eggs over their lifetime than those that had hooked up only with the stubby-spined. Males with naturally longer phallic accoutrements are thought to gain better access to the female’s hemolymph—the insect equivalent of blood, flowing outside her reproductive tract—where their seminal fluids can prime her body for reproduction. They might also, thanks to their genes, produce higher-quality ejaculate—top-shelf beetle juice. This rich cocktail can be up to 8 percent of the insect’s full weight (the equivalent of all the blood in the human body, by proportion), and teems with hundreds of ingredients, many of which are thought to enhance egg production, or supply the female’s body with much-needed nutrients. (After seed beetles mature into adults, they stop eating and focus their efforts solely on sex.)

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 12 July 2021 13:54 (four years ago)

that top shelf beetle juice the kids love

― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 July 2021 15:38 (four years ago)

it is a rich cocktail

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 12 July 2021 15:46 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ5nbfhvV5I

― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:25 (four years ago)

two weeks pass...

DNW if you don't want sea turtles ruined for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNp7tuZyWBY

― Action Bell (Leee), Friday, 6 August 2021 23:58 (four years ago)

https://blog.snapshotserengeti.org/2014/01/17/the-curious-case-of-the-giraffe-and-the-oxpecker/

The images also show that the birds seem to prefer settling between the hind legs of the giraffe.

― wildleee questionable baking substitutions (Leee), Friday, 20 August 2021 05:55 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxjIk_vXGlw

Giant fish with bony tongues, sturdy armor, and that breathe air and secrete a milky substance out of their heads to protect their young.

― Moz Jabroni (Leee), Thursday, 2 September 2021 05:09 (four years ago)

vacuum attack!

― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 September 2021 19:20 (four years ago)

Probably mentioned before but some frogs let their offspring develop in their stomachs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce-pt3Da4QA

― Carte Blanchett (Leee), Saturday, 4 September 2021 05:56 (four years ago)

Thought he'd mention that frog or toad that births babies through it's skin, because that's still the weirdest to me

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 September 2021 17:37 (four years ago)

Is that different from the one where the tadpoles live on the mom and eat her skin?

― Carte Blanchett (Leee), Sunday, 5 September 2021 00:09 (four years ago)

It's Suriname toads, still one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgROaJY6Xnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lf3JZw3OMY

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 5 September 2021 17:28 (four years ago)

Weird Oz duck says 'you bloody fool'

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-58476891

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 18:41 (four years ago)

Related: weird Oz duck likes to body surf: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-55836596

― Carte Blanchett (Leee), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:23 (four years ago)

one month passes...

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zHmUvUre72ECbRSboWsGK3-970-80.jpg.webp

Hundreds of three-eyed 'dinosaur shrimp' emerge after Arizona monsoon

These tadpole-size creatures, called Triops "look like little mini-horseshoe crabs with three eyes," Lauren Carter, lead interpretation ranger at Wupatki National Monument, told Live Science. Their eggs can lie dormant for decades in the desert until enough rainfall falls to create lakes that provide real estate and time for the hatchlings to mature and lay eggs for the next generation, according to Central Michigan University.

― visiting, Thursday, 21 October 2021 18:59 (four years ago)

More axolotl facts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFkIG9S2Mmg

Most interesting is the fact that they can actually undergo metamorphosis under the right conditions!

― Leee Tigre (Leee), Thursday, 21 October 2021 20:03 (four years ago)

two weeks pass...

Uncovered this emu tidbit from the NYT crossword a couple days ago:

The male becomes broody after his mate starts laying, and may begin to incubate the eggs before the clutch is complete. From this time on, he does not eat, drink, or defecate, and stands only to turn the eggs, which he does about ten times a day.

― A Frome of One's Own (Leee), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 19:53 (four years ago)

four weeks pass...

https://www.mbari.org/products/creature-feature/giant-phantom-jelly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bzQYKm3xTA

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 20:18 (four years ago)

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/23/23/54/21838645/3/2400x0.jpg

The barreleye fish, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, has a transparent head, and can primarily be found throughout the Pacific, from the Bering Sea to Japan and Baja California at depths of up to 2,600 feet.

In lieu of eyes are “two glowing green orbs behind its face that gaze up towards the top of its head,” and indentations where the eyes would normally appear are its “olfactory organs.” (The eyes of this “bizarre” fish, the institute notes, can rotate to the front of the head “to see its food when eating.”)

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Monterey-Bay-researchers-spot-deep-sea-barrelfish-16710913.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 20 December 2021 20:25 (four years ago)

one of leees faves!

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:31 (four years ago)

― Shower Farts (Leee), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:40 (four years ago)

And footage of the same:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akv36y8WLYA

― Virginia Worf (Leee), Monday, 27 December 2021 18:40 (four years ago)

pixar missed a step imo

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:34 (four years ago)

Not so much weird whales as weird whale members: https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/07/this-famous-sea-serpent-story-might-actually-have-been-a-sighting-of-a-whale-penis/

― Rabbit Pen Warren (Leee), Saturday, 8 January 2022 07:13 (four years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZxLNavBWS1/
FAT ASS SHEEP
http://www.worldfoodist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/800px-Erector_fat_tail_sheep.jpg

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 10 February 2022 02:45 (three years ago)

one month passes...

Mesmerizing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryRcPeOM1sY

― Vladimir Poutine (Leee), Saturday, 12 March 2022 07:22 (three years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKh8g44UnAc

― Born Sleeepy (Nuxx) (Leee), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 00:23 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIzTWYfTVw8

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/05/03/science/03tb-dolphins-vs-anaconda/03tb-dolphins-vs-anaconda-superJumbo.jpg

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/science/dolphins-anaconda-bolivia.html

Something else from the photos was notable — the male dolphins’ erect penises.
“It could have been sexually stimulating for them,” said Diana Reiss, a marine mammal scientist and cognitive psychologist at Hunter College in New York who was not involved with the study. “It could have been something to rub on.”
The aroused males could have been having a sexual romp with each other before the snake became entangled.
Researchers who study dolphins are well aware of the animals’ sexual proclivities, such as rubbing their genitals on toys or inserting their penises into objects, animate and inanimate. They often use their penises for tactile interactions, Dr. Reiss says. She has even observed male bottlenose dolphins trying to penetrate the blowhole of a rescued pilot whale in an aquarium. It’s possible, she added, that the males tried to insert their penises into the snake.
“There are so many questions,” Mr. Entiauspe-Neto says.

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 22:19 (three years ago)

typical males

― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 23:47 (three years ago)

Would you believe an omnivorous shark?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDkSToylRjM

― Star Trek: Strange New Wordles (Leee), Monday, 9 May 2022 19:53 (three years ago)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/13-foot-long-fish-caught-in-mekong-river-shows-some-megafish-are-thriving

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 May 2022 08:50 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbLFbyjVLYY

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 19:53 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Binturongs have kind of given up:

Binturongs pee in a squatting position, soaking their feet and bushy tails in the process. They also drag their tails as they move about in the trees, leaving a scent trail on the branches and leaves behind them.

https://today.duke.edu/2016/04/popcornscentedbinturong#:~:text=Binturongs%20owe%20their%20popcorn%2Dlike,toasted%20bread%20and%20cooked%20rice

― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:50 (three years ago)

I met one in person at a weird zoo in Kōbe, until that point I had no idea they existed so it completely freaked me out. Pretty gentle big dude, like a wolfhound hanging from a branch.

― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 23:02 (three years ago)

Did it smell like popcorn?

― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Thursday, 9 June 2022 03:28 (three years ago)

I was racking my brain to try and remember, I think I do remember some kind of warm/woody smell.
https://i.imgur.com/8HiAgg4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/hJZElkO.jpg

― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 9 June 2022 04:31 (three years ago)

That one's huge! Love bearcats. Spotted one in the wild on Borneo a couple of years ago:
https://imgur.com/a/Ao7VDnl

― willem, Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:29 (three years ago)

hmmm :( clicketyclick: https://imgur.com/a/Ao7VDnl

― willem, Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:30 (three years ago)

https://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/hymenopt/RedHair1.jpg

ok, here's one I saw on saturday, three separate times - the pacific velvet ant, aka the 'cowkiller ant'

They were wandering around a dirt fire road... I'm a California native and I don't think I've ever seen one

My friend looked it up on her phone, and we were like 'that's an ANT? fucking weird.. it looks like a bee.'

Well, despite the name, it's not actually an ant but a wingless WASP, with an extremely painful sting.. I'm glad I didn't try to pet it

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:33 (three years ago)

Oh, I would sometimes encounter these in meadows when I lived in California. Cool!

― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:37 (three years ago)

Funny, I've been seeing those in NW Nevada but they're covered in gold fur.

― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 12 June 2022 09:11 (three years ago)

I was stung by one of those as a teen. It was agonizing.

― Cow_Art, Sunday, 12 June 2022 13:31 (three years ago)

In Australia we have these mfs, same deal, also agonising
https://i.redd.it/ezv9y6x4nv131.jpg

― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 13 June 2022 00:21 (three years ago)

That's pretty!

In completely unrelated WTFness: https://www.popsci.com/female-salamander-kleptogenesis/

― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 01:35 (three years ago)

That's so strange...
Also "Kleptogenesis" sounds like it could be a Voivod album...

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 02:02 (three years ago)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/in-this-insect-females-have-penises-and-males-have-vaginas

― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 23:28 (three years ago)

Check out these adorable dumdums: https://defector.com/why-is-this-tiny-frog-so-awful-at-jumping/

― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 23:37 (three years ago)

Also "Kleptogenesis" sounds like it could be a Voivod album...

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, June 15, 2022 3:02 AM (yesterday)

Thumbs up

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 23:47 (three years ago)

Nice account

Brilliant colours of the pink-necked green pigeon from South-East Asia. pic.twitter.com/na2kQchv08
— Weird Animals (@Weird_AnimaIs) April 2, 2022

Maned wolves of South America have very long legs! Its not closely related to other canids, so it's not actually a wolf. pic.twitter.com/VlQAg57YdD
— Weird Animals (@Weird_AnimaIs) June 2, 2022

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 25 June 2022 01:36 (three years ago)

excellent

― thinkmanship (sleeve), Saturday, 25 June 2022 01:37 (three years ago)

The maned wolf tweet is a little unclear -- I checked to see if they belong to an entirely different group like hyenas (which are more closely related to cats than dogs), but it is in fact a canid, just on its own branch of long-legged weirdos.

― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Saturday, 25 June 2022 01:54 (three years ago)

Not weird animal but drunk scientist (studying crocodiles):

While the female was floating
in the water next to the roadbed, I held a
juvenile 1 m above the ground and elicited
distress cries by squeezing it. The mother
moved quickly out of the water and climbed
up the bank, a distance of about 3 m. At
this point I immediately released the ju-
venile.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1563716 (paywalled)

― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 01:11 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJRngS7EMpQ

― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 02:30 (three years ago)

was just thinking on platypodes this morning, their actual genuine weirdassedness. such excellent little outlaws. such disdain for the usual taxonomies! i think i would like to pet one. i would like to have lunch with a platypus and talk about its interests.

― bule bulak oying (cat), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:26 (three years ago)

Be careful trying to pet one, they have little spurs on their ankles that are venomous. (Also, they have cloacas.)

― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:11 (three years ago)

they just get more and more weird #iconic #goals

― bule bulak oying (cat), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:22 (three years ago)

One of my earliest childhood memories is a kid's book where a li'l platypus goes to different animals asking if they're related because they share physical characteristics. I think in the end he learns to love his uniqueness.

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 09:34 (three years ago)

the wisdom of the platypus right there! that is what i am talking about. be proud of your venomous spurs and cloaca 💛

― bule bulak oying (cat), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:52 (three years ago)

two months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNexk5QHG3M

― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Saturday, 10 September 2022 01:53 (three years ago)

More evidence (i.e. RNA editing) that cephalopods are aliens: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/curiouser-and-curiouser-octopuss-evolution-is-even-stranger-than-thought/

― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Thursday, 15 September 2022 01:38 (three years ago)

one month passes...

Bird that migrates thousands of miles without rest or stopping:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXEK3ryoWE4

― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Friday, 4 November 2022 20:39 (three years ago)

Everyone who reads this thread needs to read Ed Yong’s AN IMMENSE WORLD asap

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 10:48 (three years ago)

Bought! He's a great communicator, and if there's a better pop sci writer out there today, I'd definitely like to know.

― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:44 (three years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_whiptail

a female-only species of lizard

― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:54 (three years ago)

Leee, you are extremely wise

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 10 November 2022 08:21 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

I haven't started on Ed Yong's book yet because I'm reading another book by a science blogger, and it kind of astonishes me that the latter, who has a literature background, isn't as adept at writing as Ed, both in pure style and in clarity of prose.

― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 02:32 (three years ago)

Yong's prose is a masterclass in explaining complex concepts clearly and often amusingly.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 5 December 2022 05:22 (three years ago)

I agree weird https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/fish/whalefish-mystery

also whalefish is an Oxymoron

― | (Latham Green), Monday, 5 December 2022 15:52 (three years ago)

Ultra black eel that can inflate its throat to comic proportions:

― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Sunday, 18 December 2022 20:26 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS93nCp8lSY

― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Sunday, 18 December 2022 20:26 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Finally gotten around to reading the Ed Yong book, and I think I'm addition to how well he explains things, he'll include choice bits like this:

“If I were a catfish, I’d love to jump into a vat of chocolate,” John Caprio tells me. “You could taste it with your butt.”

― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Thursday, 5 January 2023 22:58 (three years ago)

four weeks pass...

click with caution if you're squeamish
https://colinpurrington.com/2023/01/some-insects-i-found-inside-dried-turkish-figs-from-trader-joes/

― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 February 2023 22:39 (three years ago)

A YouTube channel I follow just so happens to have released a video on the very subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlU-CCF-j9M

Incest, amputated body parts, a highly constrained and stratified world, it's like Game of Thrones but with quasi carnivorous figs.

― Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 5 February 2023 06:15 (three years ago)

i was all excited to see what marvelous weird animals this thread had in store this time but no, i open it to find this. this nightmare. this (very cool and interesting, but still) abomination. i used to like figs, you monsters. i still like figs. i am probably going to eat a fig someday soon, and while i am crunching down on the delightfully crispy little seeds i will suddenly remember what i have seen here, and then i will cough up a sticky slurry of spit and fig and wasp parts. why will you have done this to me.

― Aloysius's delicious dishes of vicious fishes (cat), Monday, 6 February 2023 09:28 (three years ago)

i'm curious

but not curious enough to click the video

― corrs unplugged, Monday, 6 February 2023 11:12 (three years ago)

Tbf i did post a warning

― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 February 2023 13:10 (three years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Budding_Fig_Tree#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Gospel%20of,kingdom%20of%20God%20is%20near.

― | (Latham Green), Monday, 6 February 2023 14:55 (three years ago)

I totally understand where you're coming from cat but the video also points out that by the time the fig reaches consumers, the wasp bits have long been "digested" by the flowers (and the nice crunch really is just the fig seeds).

Also the thing with modern and industrialized food is that we're probably ALREADY eating loads of bug parts (and there's a strong case to be made that we Americans should be eating more bugs as an ethical and environmental practice).

― Shartreuse (Leee), Monday, 6 February 2023 17:39 (three years ago)

leee makes a great point

https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook

ctrl + f "insects" on this page :)

― 龜, Monday, 6 February 2023 18:15 (three years ago)

when it comes to roach legs in cornflakes, the poison is in the dose

― | (Latham Green), Monday, 6 February 2023 18:21 (three years ago)

okay first of all forks' link had "colinpurrington" in it so i *thought* i wld be among friends

and next of all i am not made any happier by being reminded of all the bugs i have unknowingly eaten and will eat and which are also probably eating me right back, or will one day; i prefer to live in the soothing darkness of ignorance thankuverymuch

and lastly of all while the consumption of industrialized animal products isn't defensible by anyone with the luxury of a choice in the matter, in terms of ethics it is not at all clear that killing one large animal to feed several people is morally worse than killing many tiny animals to feed one person. although there is an undeniable glory in pouring dozens of screaming creatures down one's gullet.

everyone shld just eat beans tho. beans are really great. and people who can't eat beans should eat whatever they want because they are forced to live a life bereft of beans.

― Aloysius's delicious dishes of vicious fishes (cat), Monday, 6 February 2023 23:30 (three years ago)

and please nobody tell me how many millipedes have fucked in my beans, i am begging u

― Aloysius's delicious dishes of vicious fishes (cat), Monday, 6 February 2023 23:58 (three years ago)

in terms of ethics it is not at all clear that killing one large animal to feed several people is morally worse than killing many tiny animals to feed one person.

That's a fair point -- I guess I'm lumping in the ecology argument into ethics, although I believe that insects are far more amenable to the tightly packed conditions of industrialized agriculture than, say, mammals or birds: https://www.britannica.com/story/more-people-are-eating-bugs--but-is-it-ethical-to-farm-insects-forfood

ANYWAY, I'll endorse beans too!

― Shartreuse (Leee), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 00:23 (two years ago)

a toast! to beans!

https://catsasscoffee.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/coffee-luwak-plantation.jpg

(image mostly unrelated)

― Aloysius's delicious dishes of vicious fishes (cat), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 01:03 (two years ago)

https://i.ibb.co/tHyyDzp/image.png

― 龜, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 02:23 (two years ago)

oh whoops, didn't see your post about millipedes!

― 龜, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 02:24 (two years ago)

a toast! to beans!

you mean like this?

https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2017/01/06/08/beansontoast1.jpg

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 02:54 (two years ago)

I am okay with eating millions of insects before i die as long as they're dead and they don't catch in my throat and don't taste bad

― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 04:02 (two years ago)

and aren't poisonous or spoiled and make my breath smell bad or any other monkeypaw catches

― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 04:03 (two years ago)

https://lifehacker.com/deter-garden-pests-naturally-with-a-diy-caffeine-spray-486055048#:~:text=Gather%20any%20or%20all%20of,placing%20into%20a%20spray%20bottle.

― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:45 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Ed Yong, you rogue:

"That’s why our stories and myths are so full of characters who can transfer their consciousness into the bodies of animals—the Norse god Odin, for example, or Bran from the once-popular series Game of Thrones."

― Shartreuse (Leee), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 22:25 (two years ago)

still traumatized by that wasp post fyi

last week i was ripping apart some dates and came across one with that freaky granular interior thing going on, wondered "what's up with that" and remembered fig wasps before i could stop myself

was putting dried fruit in my tea this morning, noticed unidentifiable fruit bits* floating to the top and remembered again

* they were fruit bits. this is settled. this is canon. i did not drink bug tea. i did not. no.

― peaceful abiding clamness (cat), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:50 (two years ago)

I thought about it while eating out of this big jar of spiced fig preserves, but I mean... it's extra protein, right?

― beard papa, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 19:06 (two years ago)

It's usually well absorbed into the fig is my understanding so you're probably not eating wasp thoraxes.

To take your mind off of fig wasps, how about a worm with a hundred butts, each with their own sets of eyes and brain, that can detach and swim around to find mates?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9632hMjUr00

― Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 5 March 2023 02:35 (two years ago)

i applaud this enigmatic worm with all of my butts

― the royal y'all (cat), Thursday, 9 March 2023 06:37 (two years ago)

one month passes...

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/643305f12500005c00822afe.jpg

Texas park officials are facing quite the conundrum after a “mystery animal” was caught on camera inside a South Texas state park.

Badger?

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 10 April 2023 21:12 (two years ago)

that is obviously a chupacabra

― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Monday, 10 April 2023 21:42 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Behold the Dracula ant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9E-vO4Pkgs

The force generated by this action is so great that it can stun or kill prey, which the ants then feed to their larvae. According to Hannah Devlin of the Guardian, adult Dracula ants cannot eat solid foods, so they survive by feasting on the blood of their well-fed young. This behavior is known as “non-destructive parental cannibalism” because it doesn’t kill the larvae; it just leaves them “full of holes.”

― Sid Bream You My Love (Leee), Friday, 5 May 2023 00:44 (two years ago)

oh dag is that not how parenting is supposed to go

― De Smurfführer (cat), Friday, 5 May 2023 00:54 (two years ago)

five months pass...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/contagious-cancer-shellfish-dna.html

Contagious cancers in mollusks, which are some of the few examples of multicellular animals evolving into single-celled organisms (see also: Tasmanian devils, and doggos):

Beata Ujvari, an evolutionary ecologist at Deakin University in Australia who was not involved in the study, said that the massive mutations might be explained by the way the contagious cancers reproduce. Instead of combining two sets of DNA from a shellfish egg and sperm, the cancers clone themselves.
In that way, they’ve become more like bacteria than animals. And like bacteria, they might try to beat their competition — other cancers — by mutating faster, Dr. Ujvari said. She noted that the new cockle study revealed that two different contagious cancers will sometimes invade a single animal.

― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:48 (two years ago)

There's hope for chuds:

In the lab, researchers produced images of alternating dark and light stripes, representing the mangrove roots and water, and used them to line the insides of buckets about six inches wide. When the stripes were a stark black and white, representing optimum water clarity, box jellies never got close to the bucket walls. With less contrast between the stripes, however, box jellies immediately began to run into them. This was the scientists’ chance to see if they would learn.
After a handful of collisions, the box jellies changed their behavior. Less than eight minutes after arriving in the bucket, they were swimming 50 percent farther from the pattern on the walls, and they had nearly quadrupled the number of times they performed their about-face maneuver. They seemed to have made a connection between the stripes ahead of them and the sensation of collision.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/science/jellyfish-learning-neurons.html

― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:32 (two years ago)

Doh, forgot to include the part that mentions that box jellies have no brains and yet are still capable of learning.

― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:33 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Poor frog!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKEu90Zsh4A

― Iguodalai Lama (Leee), Friday, 3 November 2023 17:12 (two years ago)

More beetle but stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFbu21AGSho

― Iguodalai Lama (Leee), Friday, 3 November 2023 17:23 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Admittedly not weird and falls into the charismatic megafauna tap but it's my thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvM89vyn5pE

― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Sunday, 26 November 2023 01:09 (two years ago)

Usually, a belly-up fish isn’t long for this world. But video evidence from the deep ocean suggests that some species of anglerfish — the nightmarish deep-sea fish with bioluminescent lures — live their whole lives upside down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/science/upside-down-angler-fish.html

― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Monday, 4 December 2023 22:31 (two years ago)

Oh, has no one yet posted the absolute nightmare fodder that is the bloodworm aka the befanged extruded anus worm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL2p9i0wwNg

― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 December 2023 22:51 (two years ago)

There is no god.

― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Monday, 4 December 2023 23:01 (two years ago)

counterpoint: god loves all creatures, even the fanged anus worm

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 4 December 2023 23:04 (two years ago)

I've bought those for bait before, they're pretty scary

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 4 December 2023 23:23 (two years ago)

Let's see if those embeds:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ad/17/a6/ad17a67682929e201588a804a40d15e8.jpg

Anyway, those are harpy eagle talons, which apparently can be as large as grizzly claws, and these MFs ~fly~.

https://www.audubon.org/news/10-fun-facts-about-harpy-eagle

― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Thursday, 14 December 2023 21:16 (two years ago)

at first I thought the anus worms from slightly upthread had claws

― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:12 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_epxKOztHH8

1. Some sea slugs can steal (and receive energy from) chloroplasts from algae that they feed on.
2. Some of those same sea slugs can also detach their heads from their bodies and eventually regrow a new body.

― Captain Sisko and Ebert (Leee), Friday, 5 January 2024 21:03 (two years ago)

Have the Spider-tailed horned viper been posted yet?

(caution - bird hunting)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFjoqyVRmOU

― brownie, Thursday, 18 January 2024 17:56 (two years ago)

Was that featured in an Attenborough doc (Planet Earth maybe)? Mind-boggling that that mimicry behavior happens through natural selection!

― Ella Minnow Pea (Leee), Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:02 (two years ago)

@undeadpresident
4 years ago
Just when you thought spiders couldn't get creepier you discover one that turns out to be a snake.

― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:14 (two years ago)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nine-weirdest-penises-animal-kingdom-180976274/

― 龜, Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:42 (two years ago)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nine-weirdest-penises-manhattan-180976274

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 28 January 2024 23:57 (two years ago)

If you can get past the (IMO very gross) surfeit of limbs, these poorly named tadpole shrimps have some very weird reproductive strategies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucm-ds2DA58

― Temple of Selune Gomez (Leee), Saturday, 3 February 2024 05:04 (two years ago)

surinam toads...

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 10:32 (two years ago)

Wonderful

― willem, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 17:05 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Caecilians: not just the dick newts of the animal kingdom: their babies eat pays off their mothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc5Yt7tF910

― Selune Gomez (Leee), Saturday, 2 March 2024 03:28 (one year ago)

*pieces of

― Selune Gomez (Leee), Saturday, 2 March 2024 03:28 (one year ago)

two months pass...

Stupid looking deformed body, i.e. the sunfish:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEj8bnx0TB0

― The Mandymoorian (Leee), Thursday, 16 May 2024 03:30 (one year ago)

Crinoids?! WTF!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oM_QvWvoNw!

Crinoids!

― Bottom Cruise (Leee), Thursday, 23 May 2024 02:42 (one year ago)

Sadly not the same as Krynoids
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tardis/images/f/f8/Seedsofdoom_Krynoid_ravaging_house.jpg

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 23 May 2024 02:50 (one year ago)

three months pass...

Little cotton balls chew leaves to make communal tents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OcJZ_bunBc

― Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Monday, 2 September 2024 04:21 (one year ago)

Singing fish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j1rZU5opJ8

― Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Saturday, 7 September 2024 23:49 (one year ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/science/eels-escape-fish-stomach.html

In a study published on Monday in the journal Current Biology, scientists filmed juvenile Japanese eels staging Houdiniesque feats of escape from inside a predatory fish. After being swallowed and deposited into the fish’s stomach, the young eels swam up the hunter’s esophagus and escaped through an opening in its gills, much to the fish’s displeasure.

― Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 22:01 (one year ago)

https://www.wired.com/2013/12/absurd-creature-of-the-week-this-fly-burrows-into-an-ants-brain-then-pops-its-head-off/

Mind controlling ants: not just for fungi!

― Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Friday, 13 September 2024 00:28 (one year ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/26/sea-robins-fish-use-legs-to-find-prey

― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Thursday, 26 September 2024 15:19 (one year ago)

Whoa @ the video, they look freaky.

And linked from that article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/18/lizards-use-nostril-bubbles-to-breathe-underwater-and-evade-predators-researchers-find

― Vincent van Gagh (Leee), Thursday, 26 September 2024 19:22 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

The Law of Urination:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dapX-TAIfDY

― Muol Deng (Leee), Saturday, 12 October 2024 03:42 (one year ago)

one month passes...

Some species of bats have males that lactate and so will actually nurse their young.

― More Cumin Than Cumin (Leee), Monday, 2 December 2024 20:58 (one year ago)

two months pass...

Paper Nautilus, neither made of paper nor a nautilus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEGpg3DTDZw

― Baroque Obama (Leee), Monday, 3 February 2025 23:48 (one year ago)

three months pass...

Orcas figure out how to completely immobilize Great Whites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRdHMG7mQ90

― Baroque Obama (Leee), Wednesday, 28 May 2025 22:42 (eight months ago)

maybe my favorite thread. thx, Leee!

― fight for the right to remain silent (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 28 May 2025 22:58 (eight months ago)

Thanks! Glad others enjoy the posts!

― Baroque Obama (Leee), Thursday, 29 May 2025 01:01 (eight months ago)

To be a chinstrap penguin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd4GreqBPJI

― Krustacean the Clown (Leee), Tuesday, 10 June 2025 17:46 (seven months ago)

three weeks pass...

If you want to see the only mammal uglier than a Chinese crested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDmJJbn-1-s

― Leeeonora Carrleeengton (Leee), Monday, 7 July 2025 23:32 (six months ago)

two weeks pass...

The only true and perfect monogamy in the animal kingdom belongs to flat worms who literally fuse together into a super organism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkr76jzJis

― Mogwai Fear Seitan (Leee), Thursday, 24 July 2025 00:38 (six months ago)

one month passes...

Apologies for the reddit link but I just bring the fat innkeeper worn to everyone's attention: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDepthsBelow/comments/13blo8m/fat_innkeeper_worm_urechis_unicinctus_a_species/

Its shape reminds me of something but I can't quite put my, um, finger on it.

― Slow Loris Leachman (Leee), Thursday, 28 August 2025 20:02 (five months ago)

Urechis unicinctus, known as the fat innkeeper worm or penis fish,[3][4] is a species of marine spoon worm in East Asia.

― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 28 August 2025 20:12 (five months ago)

not exactly 'weird' but I see that the little pupfish in that one cave in Death Valley is now really endangered... recent earthquakes have something to do with it

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 August 2025 20:36 (five months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1O5B8I6cXs

Pangolin tongues are as long as their bodies, and are anchored in their abdomens near their kidneys.

― Slow Loris Leachman (Leee), Sunday, 31 August 2025 02:26 (five months ago)

Also they kind of walk around like little armored T rexes.

― Slow Loris Leachman (Leee), Sunday, 31 August 2025 02:27 (five months ago)

Presented without comment, the granulated sea star:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zMg4YY8KY

― Slow Loris Leachman (Leee), Thursday, 11 September 2025 04:22 (four months ago)

How about an ant that lays eggs that hatch into a different species of ants?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-O4_AwWpfI

― Slow Loris Leachman (Leee), Sunday, 14 September 2025 22:49 (four months ago)

four months pass...

Muntjac is really creepy and unsettling, content warning if you don't like weird holes flexing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whrYcNTmLx4

― Major Kirascuro (Leee), Sunday, 1 February 2026 00:24 (five days ago)

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