The 100 Most Fascinatingly Disgusting Members Of The Animal Kindom

LOL I swear I remember you thinking that it was cute when we posted about it last year or something. :-)

Jimmy Mod - was going to post penis parasite fish but apparently that may be a myth?

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

awwwww, the widdle isopod looks like he's hugging the fish's tongue. except he's not hugging it, he's hanging onto what's left of the tongue after he ripped it to shreds with his razor-sharp claws. but it looks like he's hugging the fish's tongue, awwwww.

i just like its little face, and the front legs

its face looks just like a guinea pig's face, only pickled.

OK its face and legs are sorta cute but the whole ripping out the tongue thing negates that for me I guess.

one man's meat is another man's parasitic, tongue-shredding crustacean, eh

That coconut crab thing is some next-level skin-crawling shit. Did someone post that on a spider thread before or did I imagine that?

OK so somehow while looking for more ideas for this thread I just wound up looking at tons of pics of Peruvian guinea pig meals. They serve the suckers up whole legs and tails and all! O_O

x-post - Yes, it was on a poll about which spider was the scariest even though it's not a spider but a crab. It was on that thread that I learned they hang out in trees and sometimes DROP FROM THE TREES AND LAND ON PPL'S HEADS. omg.

xpost - how cruel! how disgusting! how barbaric!

are the guinea pigs pickled, perchance?

there is an img macro of that coconut crab going IS THIS THE OCEAN and i love it but i can't find it

Guinea pigs not pickled lol. Look sorta roasted. It's not really people eating them that was gross just seeing them charred and whole was kinda surprising.

umm one of the "view image results" hits if you google the coconut crab involves one climbing up a guy's bare chest

for a second that felt gross, and then it started seeming like if you can just let them hang out on your bare chest, they must be pretty cool crabs

WAIT, i take it back, he is holding it suspended NEAR his bare chest, duh

urgh, those photos of guinea pigs laid out like roasted pigs, with little red peppers in their mouths, are waaaay over-the-top, even for jaded old me.

11) (Since we have established that the penis fish is a myth): Giant Salamander

http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/BB-Japanese-Giant-Salamander.jpg

http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~herpsgh/atama.jpg

HI I WILL SEE YOU IN YOUR DREAMS!

oh lord

that is something else

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

haah when i look at that i hear *BURRRRRRRRRRP*

it's more of a *BRRRAPPPP* *BRRRAPPPP* *GLUG* *GLUG* in my mind, but I feel ya.

that 'mander's mouth looks like as if someone has carved a wedge outta the world's most spoiled smoked turkey

i am sad emil.y got to the blobfish before me

12. The Surinam Toad

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3046/2962447793_9df324313f.jpg

http://www.molvray.com/sf/exobio/images/byl_surinamtoadsm.gif

http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/surinam_toad_eggs2.jpg

Barry the giant sea worm is both disgusting and awesome:

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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1165930/Barry-giant-sea-worm-discovered-aquarium-staff-mysterious-attacks-coral-reef.html

i'll see your lotustoad and raise you a spiderbabyback

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00534/SNN1921A-682_534283a.jpg

oh God that toad

What are those, eggs? I just got the shivers when I reached that image GAH!

Spider doesn't bother me as much as the toad for some reason.

spiderbabybackbabybackbabyback

Geoducks:
http://cses.washington.edu/cig/figures/GeoduckPhoto_BIG.jpg

o u motherfuckers you are ruining my night but i can't stop looking.

I am slightly trypophobic which is prob why the toad grosses me out so much. GAH. Ewww. I looked at it again and now I feel a little sick.

the toad could be #1

the loa loa worm, which feeds on your eyeballs, among other parts of the human body. click at your own risk.

oh christ you weren't kidding

oh christ

The geoduck was the macot of my alma mater! I'm an Evergreener, Class of 1978.

I think parasites that prey on humans sorta belong in their own category. ordinary bedbugs and ticks scare me way more than any fancy egg-backed toads or tongue-eating crabs. at a distance, even the most monstrous animals can seem almost cute, but the moment a living thing burrows into my body, it shuts off the part of my brain that goes "awwwwwwwwww."

sometimes it's about quantity

http://cellar.org/2007/thousands-of-spiders.jpg

That looks like pubes.

Which, frankly, is the best argument for Brazilian waxing I have ever seen.

spidermerkin.jpg

OK so somehow while looking for more ideas for this thread I just wound up looking at tons of pics of Peruvian guinea pig meals. They serve the suckers up whole legs and tails and all! O_O

― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, May 18, 2010 8:38 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

have had this, in peru! there's not a lot of meat. you can eat the toenails like unpopped corn kernels.

hi how are you

http://listicles.thelmagazine.com/wp-content/upload/coelacanth.jpg

you can eat the toenails like unpopped corn kernels

Not really making them sound any more appetizing buddy.

:) it was no worse than eating say, a roast chicken

http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f181/44221d1239579277-tongue-eating-isopod-tongue-replacement-isopod-1.jpg

I think I am not so much freaked out by the isopod as: why the hell does this fish have human teeth???

posted this the other day in a spider thread, but i'm just gonna go ahead and post it again

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

prying it off with a stick like that had to have been as satisfying, if not more satisfying, than lighting the whole thing on fire

hahahaha I was going to post the fish with human teeth but I thought that was only something I was freaked out by

it's just not right

http://wakkanew.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/teeth-fish2.jpg

oops x-post

coelancanths are awesome tho! They are so ancient and huge and also if you catch them in Animal Crossing they are worth tons of bells <3

I am surprised at the revulsion for the coconut crab - it seems to be pretty firmly planted on the good side of the arthropod divide

Flickr gallery of close up bug faces

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2353963/Frankenstein-rabbit-monster-spikes-sticking-head-draws-hundreds-thousands-spectators-online.html

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

poor little guy

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

what is that beautiful beast

idk but Ian Holm sure seems keen for me to get it back to earth in one piece

goblin shark i think

Yeah goblin shark. Thought extinct till relatively recently I believe.

No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_shark

Are the second teeth from an animal hiding inside a shark carcass maybe?

yes, but it's a shark too, so it picked pretty much the absolute worst disguise

We talked about it over on Weird Animals

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

Rodents that are attracted to poo: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131111-hate-poo-theres-good-reason-why/all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp0mXz_Qqp4

some pretty crazy shit here: http://gizmodo.com/this-deep-sea-fisherman-posts-his-discoveries-on-twitte-1790323479

original twitter feed w/ images (in russian) https://twitter.com/rfedortsov/media

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--svrwbNOu--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bcuihhbnenhzasfg09h5.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwKCReUWcAAg0Zp.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Czk4oHqWQAAn4FU.jpg