The 100 Most Fascinatingly Disgusting Members Of The Animal Kindom

1. The Naked Mole Rat

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Nacktmull.jpg

that is disgusting.

The naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber), also known as the sand puppy or desert mole rat, is a burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa and the only species currently classified in genus Heterocephalus. It is one of only two known eusocial mammals (the other being the Damaraland mole rat) and has a highly unusual set of physical traits that enables it to thrive in a harsh, underground environment, including a lack of pain sensation in its skin and a very low metabolism.

The naked mole rat is one of the two species of mammals that exhibit eusociality. This eusocial organisation social structure, similar to that found in ants, termites, and some bees and wasps, is very rare among mammals. The Damaraland Mole Rat (Cryptomys damarensis) is the only other eusocial mammal currently known.

Queen and Gestation

The relationships between the queen and the breeding males may last for many years, others females are temporally sterile. Queens live from 13 to 18 years, and are extremely hostile to other females behaving like queens, or producing hormones for becoming queens. When the queen dies, another female takes her place, sometimes after a violent struggle with her competitors.

Gestation is about 70 days. A litter typically ranges from three to twelve pups, but may be as large as 28. The average litter size is 11.[4] In the wild, naked mole-rats usually breed once a year, if the litter survives. In captivity, they breed all year long and can produce a litter every 80 days.[5] The young are born blind and weigh about 2 grams (0.071 oz). The queen nurses them for the first month; after which the other members of the colony feed them feces until they are old enough to eat solid food.

Promising thread.

is this your personal list or a free-for-all? If the latter...

2. The giant isopod.

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

is this your personal list or a free-for-all

the latter. have at it folks!

3. The blobfish

http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/files/news/images/blobfish.jpg

it's ziggy

jesus christ i am not looking at another one of these pictures

blobfish = mitch mcconnell meme

http://fauxpopuli.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/mitch-mcconnell-09081.jpg

also i would totally kiw a giant isopod

meanwhile it would totally eyf (eat your face)

4. The sea lamprey

http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00946/pic_used/sea_lamprey.jpg

RIP Beaver

5. The botfly, which deposits larvae in the bodies of mammals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqV1MCDLcMM

6. star-nosed mole

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1963/a304starnosedmole.jpg

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

^^^what is up with this photo. the hand is all wrong, this is shopped somehow right...?

7. coconut crab

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/672/pets0918.jpg

xpost two hands

two left hands? and one without a wrist?

8. Warty Sea Cucumber

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vxu_tx5NynY/SKeKUBKJpSI/AAAAAAAAJoY/6ecboStGNHQ/s400/DSC_9723m6.jpg

xpost i see a left hand and a right hand, left arm hidden directly behind beastie

oh I see it now.. although I dunno something about the right hand looks wrong to me

xp

Oh god I almost screamed out loud at that picture of the coconut crab on the bin. I will continue checking this thread out of some bizarre compulsion I don't understand.

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.

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.

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*

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. ;)

11) that fish that swims up your penis and sticks out its barbed fins

omg i hadn't even scrolled down far enough to read that before thinking "so cute" xpost

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

I have eaten more guinea pigs than I can remember now after seven months in Peru. Better than rabbit, not as good as chicken. lots of dark meat and little bones.

coconut crabs: i like them i just shudder to think about how if given the opportunity they would surely open up a baby's skull and casually help themselves to the brains

I was going to post this eye-leech, but it sounds like the loa loa worm has it beat.

tbf it wouldn't actually help itself to the brains after opening up the baby's skull, it would call its buddy first

http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/hugecrab01.jpg

then they would divvy up and share.

17. camels. camels are hella nasty imo and whats more they are fukken ruminants

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4702/419729774lljwdpfs.jpg

Also, deep sea monsters rule this thread:

Angler fish:
<img src=http://scribalterror.blogs.com/scribal_terror/images/2007/06/17/angler_fish.jpg>;

Viperfish

Gulper Eel

Dragon fish

Vampire Squid

xpost lololol

What is the fish that looks a lot like the viperfish but has giant, almost opaque eyeballs that are a solid milky white? And kind of a more elongated head? I had a picture book as a kid with a giant full page photo of two of their faces and it was the "scare yourself by turning to it" page for sure.

deep sea angler?

http://www.sumedh.info/pictures/deep-sea/hairy-angler.png

This should totally result in a poll.

Mating leopard slug

Actually kind of beautiful, but lots of people hate slugs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSW9kWIRCOQ&feature=player_embedded

Cause I mean, mucus, you know?

yep, we know

goblin shark

or as I like to call it, the gobblin' shark

http://dearjesus.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/goblin-shark.jpg

Maybe a different angle of the viperfish?

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Images/4180/viper%20fish%2003_big.jpg

Matamata turtle is no looker either.

I think the toad with the holes is stealing this for me so far tbh.

that fish w/ the big dome instead of/in addition to eyes

xp yeah the 'there are holes in its flesh' thing is bringing up big primordial DNW repulsions in me, kinda like that lotus tit shop that was a good shock img a couple of years ago

Dayo then you may very well also be trypophobic! LOL if you GIS trypophobia that frog is one the first things that comes up. IT'S SO FUCKING AWFUL. Lotus breast image is one of the most revolting things ever imo.

xp - you mean the one with the see through head?

lol "the hole truth"

"common examples of trypophobia inducing items include lotus seed pods, lamprey eels, skin grafts and surinam toads"

see through head fish is cute, you can see what it's thinking, and it's thinking "I'm a cute motherfucker aren't I"

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

OMG I need to stop GISing this. I am itching all over now.

YES that is the fish I meant. I like him too.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/05/17/a-scientist-finds-out-that-discussion-of-bat-fellatio-is-nsfw/

okay I'm fine with holes but not holes in ppl's skin, you're right I need to stop GISing before my phobia extends to all things with holes like THE SPEAKER GRILL ON MY MACBOOK PRO AAAAAGH *burns macbook*

star nosed mole, meet rufous horseshoe bat

http://www.calacademy.org/blogs/jdumbacher/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/rhinolophus.jpg

Yeah - I basically don't like clustered patterns of holes found in fuman/animal flesh. I also HATE lotus seed pods. Weird, I know but they just revolt me.

Other holes are fine though.

star nose mole way worse than bat but the bat is pretty bad too imo

http://www.geekologie.com/2007/01/25/rare-shark.jpg

oh hi

madagascar hissing cockroach GIVES BIRTH

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LbccUVbSRd8/S6y5YaVqNmI/AAAAAAAAGYM/i9ms6opawAE/s1600/madagascar+hissing+cockroach+birth+1.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SWlutinFxHI/AAAAAAAAKnk/t2Gm2HFCMOU/s400/Lamprey+Eel+Mouth.jpg

^^^ already on here @ #4 but deserves reiterating: lamprey eels will fuck you up

also i saw someone mention loa loa & filarial worms are FUCKED UP (google @ yr own risk) but ill rep for roundworms specifically Ascaris lumbricoides:

http://www.thaimedicalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/round-worms.jpg

Ascaris lumbricoides is the giant roundworm of human, belonging to the phylum Nematoda. It is an ascarid nematode responsible for the disease ascariasis in human. It is the largest and most common parasitic worm in humans. A quarter of human population is estimated to be infected by this parasite. Ascariasis is prevalent worldwide and more so in tropical and subtropical countries.

It can reach a length of up to 35 cm

http://www.essiactea.getqanda.com/1-Ascaris%20lumbricoides%20worms.jpg

IN UR BODY EATING UR INNARDS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOaZCkA8Zvk

PARASITES ARE THE MOST DISGUSTING CREATURES ITS A KNOWN FACT

Yeah - I basically don't like clustered patterns of holes found in fuman/animal flesh. I also HATE lotus seed pods. Weird, I know but they just revolt me.

I am the same way, esp about the lotus seed pods, and I didn't even know it was a thing! Every once in a while i have a really awful dream along these lines the specifics of which I will not divulge here, and even thinking about it makes me kind of queasy and disturbed feeling.

Also, I snortOLed at "spidermerkin.jpg."

I didn't know it was a thing either until a friend told me about how she felt that way and I realized that I wasn't alone! Even just getting a quick glance at some of the images when I googled it for quoting purposes earlier had me nearly crawling out of my skin. *shudder*

uh okay this video of surinam toad giving birth

hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCayq56wHSA

kill it with fire

I tried to do a drawing of my memory of scary fish...he seemed more see-through than this, though.

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/6972/mysteryscaryfish.jpg

dunno, still reminds me of an anglerfish...

this is a white's tree frog

http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/scienceray/2008/07/01/201653_28.jpg

he has no bones

re: candiru

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2288/can-the-candir-fish-swim-upstream-into-your-urethra-revisited

ok uh

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7235205.stm

The team recorded footage of a female worm-like amphibian, called a caecilian, allowing her young to peel off and eat her skin.

Scientists have only recently discovered this bizarre parental behaviour.

The female caecilian's skin becomes thicker and more nutrient-rich when she bears offspring.

And the young have specialised teeth for tearing and removing it.

man nature is so fukken gnarly

OK so one fish swam up one dude's dick one time. I guess once is enough though in this instance, huh? HORRIFYING!

Also, I love that tree frog.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LbccUVbSRd8/S7zfGwdAQfI/AAAAAAAAGfg/e9VZpzJa6MI/s1600/Isopods_Playing_Poker.jpg

abbott maybe you are thinking of a dragonfish?

http://diveshoppe2003.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/scaly-dragonfish.jpg

I was totally cool with this topic until y'all broke out the spiders. And the surinam toad giving birth. OH GOD.

ah the worms why the worms #1 evidence of a malicious god imo

Omg I've self diagnosed myself as a trypophobic based on this thread.

I'm crying.

ah the worms why the worms #1 evidence of a malicious god imo

#?. The Tubifex Worm (aka the North Caroloina Sewer Mutant)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcKpx2DxGwY

I keep reading the thread title as "Most Fascinatingly Disgusting Members of Animal Collective"

http://webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/hagfish-slime.jpg

the hagfish

http://pirosfera.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/hagfish.jpg

the hagfish's trick is exuding loads of mucus-slime to escape predators and clog fish gills to suffocate them. then they tie themselves in knots to scrape the slime off. they are known to eat their prey from the inside out. they have four hearts and two brains and their gametes are released through openings in their digestive system.

That top photo is some Cronenberg shit.

wow hagfish are my new favorite animal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb2EOP3ohnE

that's so awesome

actually feel like barfing @ a lot of these

especially madagascar hissing cockroach gives birth because i hate cockroaches

jabba the frog commands you to cheer up

http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/scienceray/2008/07/01/201653_28.jpg

he's a one-frog obesity epidemic!!!

i respect any animal whose eyebrows form the upper boundary of its head

Hagfish enters through the anus.

animals are fuckin disgusting, thank you all

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/images/060217_kiwi.jpg

spiderbabybackbabybackbabyback

― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:00 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/bxd/images/doggie.jpg

Do not be fooled, people. These things EAT THEIR OWN POO.

I waitered at a fine dining restaurant in Chicago in a building in which a major US advertising firm is based. In one of the dining areas they would display enormous prints of ads produced by that firm. For months, there was a wall-sized print of a n@ked m0le r@t for an IL zoo (I think?) above the tables of this expensive seafood restaurant.

Oh dear god, why.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/righteouskate/leaftailedgekko.jpg
leaf tailed gekko!

OMFG

I am full of so many conflicting feelings about this animal. Do I want to run away from it? Or do I want to hang out and party with it?

hang around long enough to get the number of it's dealer, then gtfo while you still can i think

rogue apostrophe's are out to g'et me

then gtfogtfkko while you still can i think

scary!

The Madagascar cockroach has become a popular pet because of its hissing sound, large size, and appearance. Their nickname, "hissing cockroach", is due to their ability to force air through the breathing pores (spiracles) found on their abdomen. The Madagascar hissing cockroach is believed to be the only insect that can growl in this exact manner,[1] as most insects that make a "hissing" sound do so by rubbing together various body parts

Coconut crab!

This hermit crab, with its intimidating size and strength, has a special position in the culture of many human societies which share its range. The coconut crab is admired for its strength, and it is said that villagers use this animal to guard their coconut plantations. The coconut crab, especially if it is not yet fully grown, is also sold as a pet, for example, in Tokyo.[35] The cage must be strong enough that the animal cannot use its powerful claws to escape. Should a coconut crab pinch a person, it will not only cause pain, but is unlikely to release its grip.

Thomas Hale Streets reports the following trick, used by Micronesians of the Line Islands, to get a coconut crab to loosen its grip: It may be interesting to know that in such a dilemma a gentle titillation of the under soft parts of the body with any light material will cause the crab to lose its hold.

They're edible!

Thomas Hale Streets had lots of fun using gentle titillation of his under soft parts.

taking one for the team, I delved deep into youtube to bring you back video of a madagascar hissing cockroach giving birth, now excuse me while I search for the melon scooper

hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhOGQINu0lk

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

Awesome, nobody got to my favorite yet! I wrote a whole college term paper on the aye-aye.

http://missbakersbiologyclasswiki.wikispaces.com/file/view/aye_aye.jpg/109676359/aye_aye.jpg

That's not a real animal. That is a character from the Dark Crystal.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/images/050419_aye-aye.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JWRpPBPihvQ/SbDF2jvchVI/AAAAAAAAAKU/rPQWPx9LF4Y/s400/dark-crystal-2.jpg

HAHA!

The Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the same ecological niche as a woodpecker. It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unusual method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood and inserts its elongated middle finger to pull the grubs out.

Many Malagasy natives think they are devil-creatures, and beat them to death on sight.

http://fauxpopuli.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/mitch-mcconnell-09081.jpg

I keep meaning to tell you, I almost took "Here is a tasty coconut, sorry for my earlier harshness" as MY screen name. Yay Skot's kid!

it's the kind of thing I can imagine God saying

http://blog.hmns.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/redhead1-resize.jpeg

Two nights ago I was camping, and I had some Jealousy-influenced dream about smashing giant centipedes. An hour after waking up, I ran into one of these guys, the Giant Desert Centipede aka the Giant Sonoran Centipede. It was at least 6" (15 cm) long.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2r52mEaIE1qbrpn4o1_400.jpg

Fangtooth.

just about anything found in the deepest levels of the sea should qualify.

I beg to differ!

http://awakeningwomen.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/dumbo-octopus.jpg

its a real life pokemans

i was about to say the same, latebloomer -- most of the deep-sea creatures i've seen are nowhere near that pokemon-esque, though.

not to mention that a real-life Pokemon IS kinda creepy (even if not really disgusting).

What kind of noise do you think Dumbo Octopus babby makes? ^_^

Rhino beetle (wait for it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8wJpr3whnY

I always thought that the termite queen was puke-inducing.

http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ants/images/quee-06termitequeen-l.jpg

I have to lodge my vote for the humble possum. Not as disgusting as others on this thread but, ugh god i hate these things so so much. Just GIS'ing this pic gave me the heeb

http://areyouhappyatwork.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/possum.jpg

Dracula Minnow!

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/03/danionella_dracula/danionella.jpeg

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/03/danionella_dracula/danionella.jpeg

okay dracula minnow get out of my head

Dracula minnow doesn't look too bad when it's a regualr photo:

http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/7-dracula-fish.jpg

I always thought that the termite queen was puke-inducing.

Then you'll like this info even more: The African ones are supposed to be really tasty when baked. (If you don't have any moral qualms about destroying a nest that's prolly been around for 30-40 years, that is. )

Sloths feel left out, start eating human poop

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8659000/8659239.stm

Rhinoceros beetles are also one of the strongest animals on the planet in relation to their own size. They can also survive Nuclear warfare.

<img src=http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47770000/jpg/_47770279_sloth01comp.jpg>;

I haven't read the article yet, but I love this picture.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47770000/jpg/_47770279_sloth01comp.jpg

It's like he's just chilling!

The researchers suspect many individual sloths visited the latrines: on one occasion a mother and baby visited.

in a weird way, this is adorable.

So I happened upon this little thing about angler fish and thought of this thread:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/angler

And here's the pic Leeee posted upthread again, because it had an extra character in and didn't load on-thread for me:
http://scribalterror.blogs.com/scribal_terror/images/2007/06/17/angler_fish.jpg

oh my days @ the bear grylls eating the larvae video and that fucking toad is o_O

bear grylls thing is horrific, just horrific. caught me unawares watching the show for the first time, widescreen, up close. i nearly fucking died of disgust.

went to an aviary today and saw this plant and immediately was like DNW

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/P6065804.jpg

I just took another look at the surinam toad and my back feels like it's full of holes ugghhhhh

in that youtube clip above, i'm not sure which is supposed to be the "world's most disgusting animal," the rhino beetle or the guy who ate it raw.

Surinam toad is way the worst, reminds me of Gulliver's Travels and that description of the Brobdingnagian woman's breast tumour.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/righteouskate/Ptychozoon-little-flying-dragons_Ju.jpg

OMFG!!@#$%!!`11 In your hair! But amazing!

oh man i love flying/gliding animals

http://www.treehugger.com/tongue-parasite-in-fish.jpg

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04etta/background/isopods/media/parasitic_isopod_600.jpg

the first pic is kind cute, look at how it's snuggled in there like it's in bed. better than luke in the tauntaun tbh

I'm just a little isopod, tryna keep warm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QIgW639Oog

Not sure if this was posted here yet, but ew.

that would be a great candidate for the 'guile theme goes with everything' meme, right when he pulls out of his old shell

thinking of Ziggy Stardust actually

D-:

why why why.

I have to lodge my vote for the humble possum. Not as disgusting as others on this thread but, ugh god i hate these things so so much.

I totally feel this post. These are nasty, horrible things only made worse by the fact that if you catch them running across a sidewalk, you might well mistake them for a kitty cat. (Though if you get rabies, you're still kind of a moron -- you shouldn't be approaching feral kitty cats, either.)

The opossum is the one animal that I was familiar with in the south that I was surprised to see in the north. There's no armadillos up here, no marauding raccoons, certainly no deer. But there's still opossums.

Chicago is home to marauding raccoons. Ask Jesse.

upon further reflection, I have decided that the naked mole rat bears a striking resemblance to the Vietnamese summer roll

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Nacktmull.jpg

http://www.bookofyum.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/springroll1.jpg

OTMFM

Such a comparison casts a suspicious light on that little puddle of dipping sauce...

That swiss cheese carrier toad thing still gives me the cereaming abdabs, especially as it looks like it's made from that disgusting green foam that florists use.

*screaming abdabs (tm)

Perhaps you are trypophobic.

Where skin is involved, hell yeah

naked mole rats are awesome - they can chew through just about anything!

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

hahah omg /dies

Pretty sure I'm gonna have nightmares about a girl with a spider merkin now. Thanks.

lol @ harbl and the isopod <3

fukken surinam toad

Male water strider is morally disgusting.

the worst part of that article:

In other insects, where females have evolved an upper hand in the war of the sexes, males have developed even more extreme counter-strategies. Look no further than the common bedbug – the male bypasses the female’s genitals altogether and stabs his sharp penis straight into the female’s back, a technique known appropriately as traumatic insemination.

cf isabella rosselini's 'seduce me'

blech. Oh my AYE AYES.
http://www.treehugger.com/aye-aye-small.jpg

I love aye ayes!!! They are SO WEIRD.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/11/8/1289230487176/4th-annual-DEEP-Indonesia-009.jpg

Moray eel.

http://brvilledude.blogspot.com/2010/07/parasite-then-replaces-fishs-tongue-by.html
The parasite then replaces the fish’s tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CD0JETuihEE/SqZT5ykSP_I/AAAAAAAAEzc/v0bEyArz87s/s1600/alienreal.jpg

scroll up dude

oops... now w/ text

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

haha... "Turns out... It was MAN!"

^^ lol i was actually gonna post that futurama clip instead of the wiki link

hey fellow Trypophobics feast your eyes on this beaut as featured on the Wiki homepage earlier today

it might be the worst thing ever. not only does it have holes, it has OOZING HOLES. *shudders**itches**dies*

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Hydnellum_peckii2.jpg

omg I'm so freaked out by this and yet can't stop looking at it

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

btw this thing is affectionately known as the "bleeding tooth fungus" which is pretty awes imo

ugh...that gave me goosebumps.

http://i.livescience.com/images/061128_bat_face_02.jpg

I know. I'm itching all over. SO GROSS.

And people wonder why I don't eat mushrooms....

i keep looking at it and its making me feel like i have to throw up.

I seriously think I just broke out in hives.

or you sprouted a bleeding fungus.

Doesn't bother me too turrible as long as I don't think of it as a foodstuff. Entire fungal family/kingdom/phyllum/etc ruled out for me, forever.

lol xp

NOoooooooooo don't say that! ;_;

Chris you might have the same Triptophobia thing we talked about upthread. I think the mushroom might even be worse than the surinam toad for me tbh.

i think i have that. god, im feeling like im going to lose my lunch.
http://img237.imageshack.us/i/trypophobia.jpg

http://img237.imageshack.us/i/trypophobia.jpg/

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/4750/trypophobia.jpg

aaaarrrrrrrrghh.

omg i hate you so so so much

that is like the most horrible thing to me

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

but the toad/fungus are worse, of course, because they're REAL

i dont even want to look at the toad.

it's horrible - it sprouts little toads from holes on its back

WHAT!

Surinam toad. Don't say I didn't warn you.

sprout is a pretty awful word. I feel like most things that entail "sprouting" are . . . not good.

just looked, im am never eating pastene again.

omg that shop is the worst thing ever. brain=scarred

pastina....

when i got in a car accident a while back i tore a good hole in my forearm the size of a half dollar...you could see bone. i think thats why i have this fear of holes now.

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://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/01_wk4/FrilledSharkG_468x331.jpg

this fucking guy

that's not disgusting - it's awesome

the gills and the teeth freak me out

No it is disgusting and terrifying.

See the fungi don't freak me out because they are not going to COME AFTER ME or HIDE IN MY SHOE AND BITE ME

that's what they want you to think

I mean tbh EBNBB's fungus upthread is kinda pretty with its glossy ruby gem secretions.

PRETTY!?

ahhhhhhhhhhh

aaggghhh ENBBBBbbbb

it reminds me of those blood blisters you get from like burns or w/e

FUCK

dude, I know

sorry!

pro tip: do not GIS blood blister

:(

when i got in a car accident a while back i tore a good hole in my forearm the size of a half dollar...you could see bone. i think thats why i have this fear of holes now.

― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, December 22, 2010 5:23 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

there's this basketball player named David Lee who got bit during a game by another player, the bite got infected and he almost died

here's a pic b/c your story reminds me of it

http://dimemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/David-Lee.jpg

quincie otm -- it kinda looks like a cross between a cookie and a jelly donut, if you divorce it from its fungal background

So many of these animals look like vaginas.

African wild dog:

http://www.animalwebguide.com/African-Wild-Dog-2.jpg

We were in Botswana looking at a pack of 15-odd, thinking how cute they were and wondering what the smell was. Where your normal dog will mark its territory by running a slash under a tree, these dudes MARK THEIR PACK instead. THEY PISS AND CRAP ON ONE ANOTHER. So that's what the smell was.

So many of these animals look like vaginas.

― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Tuesday, December 21, 2010 7:29 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://www.skepdic.com/graphics/freud1.jpg

Pissing and crapping aside, the wild dog is pretty cute.

It is, and they make the weirdest/cutest squealing noise, and the babies are <3 when they jump all over one another, but oh my god the smell, and then they tell you what it is and you just

http://godssecret.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/black-dragonfish.jpg

I hate the black dragonfish!

that's pretty loathsome

What is the fish that looks a lot like the viperfish but has giant, almost opaque eyeballs that are a solid milky white? And kind of a more elongated head? I had a picture book as a kid with a giant full page photo of two of their faces and it was the "scare yourself by turning to it" page for sure.

― This is four-dimensional art; the 4th dimension is incredibly powerful. (Abbott), Monday, May 17, 2010

I just tried to figure this out by doing a GIS for "scariest fish" and I actually succeeded in finding it! Except I got their eye color wrong. It's just their like "help I am a damned fucked up human" faces that are creepy!

http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/hatchetfish_01.jpg

from the following helpful url: http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/scary-looking-creature-the-hatchetfish/

"I am condemned to hell! I have acute fetal alcohol syndrome!"

oh my god those eyes

http://www.weirdseamonsters.com/scary-looking-creature-the-hatchetfish/

http://listdom.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/hatchet-fish.gif

souls of the dead

those are some fucked up fish

Fuck this fucking thread! I got to the spiderbabyback right after the Surinam repellent fucking toad and I say: fuck both of those things and fuck this thread.

(I have bookmarked where I left off and I'll be back later.)

I think the giant isopod and the hagfish are both a little homely-cute.

Tongue parasite is up there with Human Centipede and Josef Fritzl in terms of sleepless nights imo.

The parasite then replaces the fish’s tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub

I mean just, this, like I will never sleep again.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads//2010/09/isopods-eating-doritos.jpg

Look at these giant isoposd. They're just like us: alw3ays craving nacho cheese powder/

yeah that picture is all time

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/a/a7/Isopod_furry.jpg

:)

Isopod Milk Hotel

Listening to that album on my isoPod right now

In the Exoskeleton Over The Sea

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn146/Castorp20008/japanese-tv-kitten-isopod.jpg

best animal friends y/n

I would watch a buddy cop movie starring those two.

^^^^^^^^

which one is the by-the-book guy and which one is the young brash rookie?

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/worms.jpg

fuck this thread

x-post

would watch a movie review show hosted by these two^

"Rasputin's Pickled Penis and Roeper: At the Movies"

it is a penis, but it is also a vagina.

cruel shoes

slimy slippers

OK, I've gone through the whole thread (except videos, as I never want to see these horrible beasts in motion) and the worst are the Surinam toad, the eyeball worm, and that awful bleeding fungus. I never thought flora could be so horrible.

I feel queasy and weird, but I had to look at all of them.

xp - what the shit were those two in that last pic?

marketing failures of 2010

xp

think those are lampreys

^ ding ding ding

here's a tip guys don't GIS tapeworms ur welcome

Oh - that weird sewer creature from North Carolina (found in the sewer in Cameron Village, a ritzy shopping center in Raleigh) is also the top of my list.

Naked mole rats, deep sea monsters, even coconut crabs have nothing on that thing and the toad.

so you are challenging me to post some tapeworms then

the tubifex worm thing? xp

I have to go to bed. I'm getting a liver biopsy done in the morning and I can just feel the parasitic creatures crawling inside of it, and imagine the scope holes in my side.

ouch. good luck w/ yr procedure, man! I hope u are OK..

I can just feel the parasitic creatures crawling inside of it, and imagine the scope holes in my side.

we have done good work here today ppl

warning extreme tapeworm content

http://www.flickr.com/photos/baalands/617427936/in/photostream/

lol @ this comment "I'm never eating fettuccine bolognese ever again"

looks like dirty underwear

staying out of your hamper tbh

this one cinches it for tapeworms

http://www.flickr.com/photos/baalands/617428092/in/photostream/

NO GOD NO

very disappointed this did not become img meme btw, motherfuck a hatcat

http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/scienceray/2008/07/01/201653_28.jpg

Great idea: this thread should be a poll.

If someone polls this, Mitch McConnell should be an option imo

xxp - that thing should be bff's with the blobfish

http://teacheffectively.com/wp-content/images/GarrisonKeillor2007LanesboroMN_crop.jpg

man that must be one unattractive erect male member

it's making his left eye remove itself from its socket

i wonder if thats where jabba the hutt came from.

corey I propse that you submit this to the group asap. it's too good. or wait, is that where you got it from?

nah just GIS

http://i53.tinypic.com/21ljvps.jpg

chase no face
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mtxIjWA73qM/RuJiYjgiOSI/AAAAAAAAAYw/B2SeLnkJC_g/s1600/chaseonwhite.jpg

aw

guys chase is a delicate flower

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/37e6d726b1b422215cdc1b47f78b6b2b.jpg

omg that fucking cat

chase is fucking disgusting.

i just threw up in my mouth

a) stop saying that
b) he's pretty gross but mostly I am just sad for him

back when i was about 10 my sister was at Childrens Hospital for cancer treatment, i walked into the elevator and there was a kid in there that had no face, he had slits for eyes, ears, nose, etc....i have nightmares about that to this day 26 years later.

b) he's pretty gross but mostly I am just sad for him

― ENBB, Wednesday, December 22, 2010 12:47 PM (35 seconds ago)

i feel bad for him too, but does he suffer like that?

I love chase no face.

:(

poor kid

I used to work next door to Children's and seeing some of the kids that went in and out of there was pretty heartbreaking.

i think chase looks better with short fur.

yep, that place was not easy to take especially in the cancer ward.

b) he's pretty gross but mostly I am just sad for him

don't be sad for him! By all accounts, Chase is a pretty happy, loving cat. If you have anything negative to say about him, I'm sure he'll be none the wiser as long as you don't say it to his face. er wait..

WHY CAT HAS NO FAC??
horsesflu 8 months ago 13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-228HHY3Hw

for balance:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01117/twofaced-kitten_1117822c.jpg

chase no face is a hero.

otm. chase is a girl btw and an inspiration and i love her

OK, gross "normal" animals is fine, but please stop with the photos of deformed animals. It's making me too sad!

You asked for it, James.

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Images/2355/DSCN7351_big.jpg

chase is the jam, haters gonna hate

goblin cock

more hagfish & their SLIME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb2EOP3ohnE

Think I am the #1 amateur hagfish fan.

u r disgusting. Another YT about the wonders of hagfish slime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcOqGV0Kcp0

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/wormeye.asp

^^^ Botfly removed from a kid's EYE.

not clicking on that, but a friend of the family (a budding filmmaker) got a worm in his eye while in central america and went blind :-/

World, say hello to...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8JslCp67Hcg/TaMJiZ_qf7I/AAAAAAAAA0k/wHjs6EEyqhI/s400/RockVomit.grid-4x2.jpg

ROCK VOMIT.

What is that? Besides proof that there is no God, and if there ever was, he hated us and wanted us to be unhappy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42476651/ns/us_news-environment/

"sea squirt"

Not only does it look like snot...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7wipJ8SWBV4/TaMK-wb1AQI/AAAAAAAAA0s/Pz5LY6aY1IQ/s400/seasquirt_lg.jpg

... but because it "smothers other creatures while producing acidic toxins that in turn prevent anything from growing on it." Class act, all the way.

It looks less repellent close up in that person's hands than on the rock.

Tardigrades aka the Water Bear

http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/news9_0.jpg
http://www.panspermia.org/tardigrade.jpg
http://tardigrade.acnatsci.org/tardigrades/pic311.png
http://www.damnedct.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tardigrade.jpg

I think tardigrades are kind of cute!!

They are okay but then I think about drinking them and get a little weirded out.

Tardigrades aka the Water Bear

AKA "moss piglets" according to Wikipedia.

abbott otm the second one looks like a cute microscopic pig

http://bighugelabs.com/output/lolcat2420b7f308f36328c33e73298066a1ea4ae5bc9d.jpg

http://bighugelabs.com/output/lolcat670805fed23b68ebfd2bd8d78809c347e6375743.jpg

You get the idea.

I don't get the idea because I don't see any pics. :(

MAGGOT: XTREME CLOSE-UP

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/03/article-1299938-0AAB7470000005DC-411_634x587.jpg

MAGGOT: XTREME CLOSE-UP

No way! They've just been tiny inside-out Walruses this whole time!

New primes album?

Primus. Fucking iPhone.

Just as lovely as the Maggot, the water bear.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52392000/jpg/_52392786_c0089246-spl.jpg
Read all 'bout it!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/12855775

reminds me of http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/kotaku/2008/07/combineEliteNotCosplay.jpg

http://www.damnedct.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tardigrade.jpg

this tard's got pizazz

I don't get the idea because I don't see any pics. :(

Weird. Well they were lolwaterbears.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh tarantula hawk
http://i.imgur.com/eRLUH.jpg

I have so many feelings about that!

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!

Oh, duh, cozen identified it in the original post.

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.

poll

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