heh
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link
:D
― broa super (unregistered), Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:01 (fourteen years ago) link
babirUSAs are the new sheeple
― broa super (unregistered), Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Behold, the velvet worm!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4ezLN2IqM&feature=player_embedded
― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Sunday, 13 June 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
clearnose guitarfishhttp://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 (fourteen years ago) link
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that Peter Lorre?
― Ciudad Warez (corey), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
That uneasy feeling translates for me to: "KILL IT!!"
― Ciudad Warez (corey), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/bloghoax/guitarfish.jpg
― makes da cool chewbaccas in pain sounds STAR WARS (arby's), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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 (fourteen years ago) link
http://divegallery.com/leafy_sea_dragon4.jpg
phycodurus eques
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Yoda Bats mum yesterday...http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/photos/stylus/72619-neverending_story_490x200.jpg
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 9 December 2010 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
& sexed = worst date ever.
― not_goodwin, Monday, 7 March 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
7 not &
Eight-wheel amirite.
― stronglo recommendington (Leee), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
errr, "Eighth."
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 (thirteen years ago) link
see here tomThe 100 Most Fascinatingly Disgusting Members Of The Animal Kindom
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
HYPNOTOAD LIVES.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/hypnotoad2.jpg
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 21 July 2011 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean tortoise, I know the difference.
― I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Man Grown (Leee), Sunday, 24 July 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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.)
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 (twelve years ago) link
omg @ phallus dentatum
― dayo, Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
vagina dentata v. phallus dentatum
― dayo, Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
it's great to be back, leee!
(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 (twelve years ago) link
D'oh.
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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw2DrbhOA-M
'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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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.
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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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
no dissection needed
― smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Sunday, 29 July 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link