Oh I forgot to mention another thing about Naked Mole Rats: in addition to being hideous, unusually long-lived feces-eating monsters that feel no pain, they also are to known to reproduce primarily through inbreeding.
― (latebloomer) (latebloomer), Monday, 17 May 2010 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
They are so fucking awesome.
http://i42.tinypic.com/mto4d5.jpg
The so-called ghost slug first appeared in South Wales gardens in 2006, possibly after arriving as a stowaway in imported potted plants.The nocturnal predator is armed with blade-like teeth (see inset) for slicing through animal flesh and can measure up to 5 inches (13 centimeters) long when stalking its prey.They engulf worms piece by piece. One end of the worm will still be alive while the other is being gradually ratcheted into the slug by the teeth.
The nocturnal predator is armed with blade-like teeth (see inset) for slicing through animal flesh and can measure up to 5 inches (13 centimeters) long when stalking its prey.
They engulf worms piece by piece. One end of the worm will still be alive while the other is being gradually ratcheted into the slug by the teeth.
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Monday, 17 May 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG at the naked mole rat fun facts. I had no idea!
Star nosed mole would have been the first thing to come to mind for me. They're even worse when you see them moving. *shudder*
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Have we forgotten the tongue eating isopod?
http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f181/44221d1239579277-tongue-eating-isopod-tongue-replacement-isopod-1.jpg
ps - Harbl, it IS NOT cute. ;)
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
11) that fish that swims up your penis and sticks out its barbed fins
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
omg i hadn't even scrolled down far enough to read that before thinking "so cute" xpost
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i just like its little face, and the front legs
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
its face looks just like a guinea pig's face, only pickled.
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
OK its face and legs are sorta cute but the whole ripping out the tongue thing negates that for me I guess.
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
one man's meat is another man's parasitic, tongue-shredding crustacean, eh
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 18 May 2010 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost - how cruel! how disgusting! how barbaric!
are the guinea pigs pickled, perchance?
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
there is an img macro of that coconut crab going IS THIS THE OCEAN and i love it but i can't find it
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
WAIT, i take it back, he is holding it suspended NEAR his bare chest, duh
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~herpsgh/atama.jpg
HI I WILL SEE YOU IN YOUR DREAMS!
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
oh lord
that is something else
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
haah when i look at that i hear *BURRRRRRRRRRP*
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
it's more of a *BRRRAPPPP* *BRRRAPPPP* *GLUG* *GLUG* in my mind, but I feel ya.
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
that 'mander's mouth looks like as if someone has carved a wedge outta the world's most spoiled smoked turkey
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i am sad emil.y got to the blobfish before me
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i'll see your lotustoad and raise you a spiderbabyback
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00534/SNN1921A-682_534283a.jpg
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
spiderbabybackbabybackbabyback
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Geoducks:http://cses.washington.edu/cig/figures/GeoduckPhoto_BIG.jpg
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
o u motherfuckers you are ruining my night but i can't stop looking.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
the toad could be #1
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link
the loa loa worm, which feeds on your eyeballs, among other parts of the human body. click at your own risk.
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
oh christ you weren't kidding
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
oh christ
The geoduck was the macot of my alma mater! I'm an Evergreener, Class of 1978.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― not having a luxury watch is terrible (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes it's about quantity
http://cellar.org/2007/thousands-of-spiders.jpg
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
That looks like pubes.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Which, frankly, is the best argument for Brazilian waxing I have ever seen.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
spidermerkin.jpg
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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.
― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't get the idea because I don't see any pics. :(
Weird. Well they were lolwaterbears.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh tarantula hawkhttp://i.imgur.com/eRLUH.jpg
― the dn centipede (_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_, ◦ ⃝◦ (cozen), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
I have so many feelings about that!
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 17 June 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
That is a tarantula hawk.
The tarantula hawk is relatively docile and rarely stings without provocation. However the sting, particularly of Pepsis formosa, is among the most painful of any insect, though the intense pain only lasts for about 3 minutes.[3] Commenting on his own experience, one researcher described the pain as "…immediate, excruciating pain that simply shuts down one's ability to do anything, except, perhaps, scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations."[2] In terms of scale, the wasp's sting is rated near the top of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, second only to that of the bullet ant and is described by Schmidt as "blinding, fierce [and] shockingly electric".[4]
Schmidt Sting Pain Index!
― Jesse, Friday, 17 June 2011 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, duh, cozen identified it in the original post.
― Jesse, Friday, 17 June 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index
Is this index a joke?
1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
2.0 Bald-faced hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.
2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
3.0 Paper wasp: Caustic and burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.
― Jesse, Friday, 17 June 2011 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
poll
― the dn centipede (_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_,(_, ◦ ⃝◦ (cozen), Friday, 17 June 2011 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
Flickr gallery of close up bug faces
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
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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
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 11 July 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link
poor little guy
― Treeship, Thursday, 11 July 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jLnsphG.gif
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
what is that beautiful beast
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
idk but Ian Holm sure seems keen for me to get it back to earth in one piece
― sktsh, Thursday, 21 November 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
goblin shark i think
― Number None, Thursday, 21 November 2013 00:38 (ten years ago) link
Yeah goblin shark. Thought extinct till relatively recently I believe.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 21 November 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_shark
― ✓B (Matt P), Thursday, 21 November 2013 02:05 (ten years ago) link
Are the second teeth from an animal hiding inside a shark carcass maybe?
― polyphonic, Thursday, 21 November 2013 07:32 (ten years ago) link
yes, but it's a shark too, so it picked pretty much the absolute worst disguise
― j., Friday, 22 November 2013 00:15 (ten years ago) link
We talked about it over on Weird Animals
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2013/10/600-grey-goblin.gif
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 November 2013 00:19 (ten years ago) link
Rodents that are attracted to poo: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131111-hate-poo-theres-good-reason-why/all
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Friday, 22 November 2013 05:36 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp0mXz_Qqp4
― gr8080, Monday, 4 May 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
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
― marcos, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
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
― marcos, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Czk4oHqWQAAn4FU.jpg