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http://www.rstours.com/assets/images/spotted_nudibranch.jpg

http://www.chaparraltree.com/photos/pp-nudibranch-med.jpg

These are nudibranchs.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anybody an idea of what the inside of a marsupial's pouch is like? Is it dry, wet, warm, full of tapioca, what? Aussies, please help me.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 1 August 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I love portugese man-o-wars! Im sure i'll have to deal with them a lot when I move to the azores.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anybody an idea of what the inside of a marsupial's pouch is like? Is it dry, wet, warm, full of tapioca, what? Aussies, please help me.
-- x j e r e m y

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)

haha, Mandee, are you serious??

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think she is.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

good, the concept of a fellow ILXor appearing on my turf was hurting my brane.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(I mean, it's the only novelty I have, and a crappy one at that, but still!)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, I thought that was my novelty!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(ahem, aussies!)

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Starfish are weird; they're like some kind of space-alien creature. They pry apart oyster shells and then they turn their own stomachs inside-out and pull them through their mouths into the oyster shells to digest their prey before ingesting them.

― 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)

hmmmm how do you post pics in here, is it not url ??

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

You can just type the http, but with and 'i' at the start: ihttp://www.etcetera

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

That doesn't lead anywhere, by the way.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ooooh tricky

http://www.abrolhosbat.com.au/images/quokka_small.jpg

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

WE R HARKORE, PH3AR OUR MONSTROUS BEASTIES. OK THEY LOOK ALL CUTE AND FURRY BUT THEY BITX0R!!!!!!!!
-- Trayce (trayc...), January 16th, 2004.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.minbu.connectfree.co.uk/woman_w.jpg

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post hey quokkas are pretty menacing, don't you know that if you leave food laying around uncovered they come into your rotto cottage at night and steal it. and they leave little calling cards for unwitting midnight toilet-goers to step in.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/eviau/edit557/oceans/patty/pgulper.gif

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)

good point trayce

http://www.abc.net.au/science/ocean/monsters/img/squid.jpg

― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

because, duh, there's no water in space.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

AAWWAUURGHH GIANT SQUIDS *shudder*

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)

This thread reminds me of at least half a dozen ween albums.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ecobeach.com.au/photos/ph_bilby.jpg

bilbies are also kinda strange lookin' critters

― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

They are sexual marathon runners - they can go at it for over 24 hours.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

who saw the shark thing on abc on saturday night - apparently sharks have two penises! (how sad is my social life)

― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It's sea cucumbers that spew their inner organs to confuse predators. Crehzay!

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

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)

one year passes...

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_isopod.jpg

― 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

― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:11 (seventeen years ago)

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)

eleven months pass...

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)

<img src=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/images/090226-psychedelic-fish-picture_big-ap.jpg>;

― A Mermaid... Doing It With Captain Morgan (Leee), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:54 (sixteen years ago)

A phish:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/images/090226-psychedelic-fish-picture_big-ap.jpg

― A Mermaid... Doing It With Captain Morgan (Leee), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:54 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3168/2623045179_d4a31e137d.jpg

― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Sunday, 28 March 2010 04:32 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76pJAua1lgY

― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Friday, 2 April 2010 22:25 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Friday, 2 April 2010 22:29 (sixteen years ago)

aw I want a fruit bat!

― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Saturday, 3 April 2010 01:30 (sixteen years ago)

that brain fish thing is awesome!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Saturday, 3 April 2010 02:59 (sixteen years ago)

Thermo, FYI: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/index.html

― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:20 (sixteen years ago)

That fish...he is so full of wisdom

― SUPER USA (╓abies), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:26 (sixteen years ago)

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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)

four months pass...

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)

one month passes...

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)

two months pass...

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 (four 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 (four weeks ago)

two weeks pass...

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)

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