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)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 1 August 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)
Kick ass!
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.chaparraltree.com/photos/pp-nudibranch-med.jpg
These are nudibranchs.
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 1 August 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― 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)
― gem (trisk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.abrolhosbat.com.au/images/quokka_small.jpg
― gem (trisk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
http://www.abc.net.au/science/ocean/monsters/img/squid.jpg
― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)
bilbies are also kinda strange lookin' critters
― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)
oops what did I do wrong.
― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:11 (seventeen years ago)
ah right.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Giant_isopod.jpg
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 (seventeen years ago)
wtf is the point of that fish? What's its evolutionary comparative advantage?
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:18 (seventeen years ago)
Its eyes are less vulnerable.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:52 (seventeen years ago)
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01515/coelacanth_1515621c.jpg
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Monday, 22 February 2010 15:12 (sixteen years ago)
http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Images/5939/goblin_shark_big.jpg
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Monday, 22 February 2010 15:13 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.botswanagallery.org/thesis/A/img2/amazon-river-dolphin.jpg
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Monday, 22 February 2010 15:17 (sixteen years ago)
Coelocanths! Extant from the age of the dinosaurs!
― A Mermaid... Doing It With Captain Morgan (Leee), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:53 (sixteen years ago)
The Law of Urination:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dapX-TAIfDY
― Muol Deng (Leee), Saturday, 12 October 2024 03:42 (one year ago)
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)
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)
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 (one year ago)
maybe my favorite thread. thx, Leee!
― fight for the right to remain silent (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 28 May 2025 22:58 (one year ago)
Thanks! Glad others enjoy the posts!
― Baroque Obama (Leee), Thursday, 29 May 2025 01:01 (one year ago)
To be a chinstrap penguin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd4GreqBPJI
― Krustacean the Clown (Leee), Tuesday, 10 June 2025 17:46 (one year ago)
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 (eleven months ago)
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 (ten months ago)
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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago)
Also they kind of walk around like little armored T rexes.
― Slow Loris Leachman (Leee), Sunday, 31 August 2025 02:27 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago)
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 (four months ago)
Eyeless, skull-less fish that live in aquifers, that I initially thought were shrimp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1pu6jP5Alw
― Major Kirascuro (Leee), Wednesday, 11 March 2026 05:52 (three months ago)
Putting this is spoilers for arachnophobes but the giraffe or pelican spider is the goofiest looking thing I've seen in a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdqj9KbeOAQ
― Toilets and Cressida (Leee), Tuesday, 26 May 2026 14:51 (three weeks ago)
Mammals can be weird too! Elephant seals hardly sleep, and when they do, they do it on the seabed:
The new findings, published April 20 in Science, show that while elephant seals may spend 10 hours a day sleeping on the beach during the breeding season, they average just 2 hours of sleep per day when they are at sea on months-long foraging trips. They sleep for about 10 minutes at a time during deep, 30-minute dives, often spiraling downward while fast asleep, and sometimes lying motionless on the seafloor.
https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/04/sleeping-seals/
― Toilets and Cressida (Leee), Tuesday, 26 May 2026 19:58 (three weeks ago)
Worms are so gross:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTL4Ly3COfg
(Green spoon Worm.)
― Major Kirascuro (Leee), Wednesday, 10 June 2026 02:23 (one week ago)