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― Ou sont les Sonneywolferines d'antan? (Leee), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 05:25 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/files/2013/06/Croatobranchus-mestrovi.jpg

White, subterranean leeches.

― Mike Foucault (Leee), Sunday, 30 June 2013 01:22 (twelve years ago)

that is kind of cute. it seems like it could be a pokemon.

― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Sunday, 30 June 2013 01:30 (twelve years ago)

Funny you should say that, there's already a cartoon tee shirt.

(Ace d/n btw.)

― Mike Foucault (Leee), Sunday, 30 June 2013 01:40 (twelve years ago)

thanks Leee. i like your display name too. i was just explaining madness and civilization to people at dinner but i don't think they were listening.

i like the t-shirt but i don't think i am going to get one.

― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Sunday, 30 June 2013 01:46 (twelve years ago)

You just gave me an idea.

― Stateleee, plump Carey Mulligan (Leee), Sunday, 30 June 2013 04:37 (twelve years ago)

i am imagining that display name as a really mean caption for an unflattering photo of Carey Mulligan in OK! magazine or some other celebrity tabloid.

― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Sunday, 30 June 2013 04:56 (twelve years ago)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/86a3bd6344d460f399adbb21cf056f5e/tumblr_mp9xi8oAT41spgl94o1_500.jpg

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 08:04 (twelve years ago)

courtesy of another ilxor, who posted it to facebook:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/files/2012/06/Pyura_chilensis.jpeg

Despite appearances, this is not some kind of cruelly bisected alien stone organism or a tomato thunderegg. This is Pyura chilensis, a sea creature that lives on the rocky coast of Chile and Peru. And if (like me, very recently) you’ve never seen one of these before, you’ll probably be interested to know that in Chile, they are fished commercially, and the locals eat them raw or cooked with salad and rice because apparently they’re delicious.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2012/06/21/pyura-chilensis-the-closest-thing-to-getting-blood-from-a-stone/

― just1n3, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 03:36 (twelve years ago)

video left me a little traumatized

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot-_xTDJgVI

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 03:50 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

The obvious question remains: How can a worm remember things after losing its head?
“We have no idea,” Levin admitted.

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/16/decapitated-worms-regrow-heads-keep-old-memories/

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 25 July 2013 03:33 (twelve years ago)

YES.

― Louie Althusser (Leee), Thursday, 25 July 2013 03:34 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

Great spider gallery: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/weirdest-spiders-ever/

― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 03:55 (twelve years ago)

Also the butcher bird: http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2013/07/30/the-macabre-habits-of-the-butcher-bird/

― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 03:57 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2428971/Is-beautiful-squid-world-Underwater-photographers-incredible-pictures-capture-amazing-colours-bobtail-squid.html

― 乒乓, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 13:47 (twelve years ago)

Not clicking Daily Mail link, even for weird animals. So apologies if this is the same:

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/cookie-monster-of-the-sea-photographed-off-curacao/

http://cdn.grindtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/MH_NGIC0610_0183-Web.jpg

― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 13:58 (twelve years ago)

It doesn't actually look that much like the cookie monster, but it is cute.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 13:58 (twelve years ago)

non daily mail link here http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/09/brilliant-photos-of-the-bobtail-squid/

― 乒乓, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 14:03 (twelve years ago)

Thanks, d. That squid is trippy.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 14:10 (twelve years ago)

Gossamer spiders are best known for their bizarre “ballooning” stunts, but it’s only this week that we’ve learned how they pull them off.
They disperse by spinning strands of silk into the open air, which allows them to float through the atmosphere miles above the surface of the earth and out to sea far beyond the reach of land.
These 8-legged kites can apparently survive 25 days without food during their aeronautical journeys.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2013/09/23/ballooning-spiders-fly-without-wind/

― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Friday, 27 September 2013 04:13 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

Who'd have thunk that Birds of Paradise would be weird?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYbn9R11Rrs#action=share

More here: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/birds-of-paradise-videos/?pid=12691&viewall=true

― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Saturday, 12 October 2013 00:58 (twelve years ago)

the oarfish!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24620755

http://i.imgur.com/2gzVedJ.jpg

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 13:17 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/o3TR5lw.jpg

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 13:29 (twelve years ago)

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/giant-oarfish-found-california-coast-article-1.1491007

― steames artpop (how's life), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 13:31 (twelve years ago)

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2013/10/600-grey-goblin.gif

More interestingness here: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/absurd-creature-goblin-shark/

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:20 (twelve years ago)

love the expression on the little fish's face

― diarmuid o'gallus (imago), Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:21 (twelve years ago)

lol

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:23 (twelve years ago)

The Sarcastic Fringehead
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FyGI7lEKbiE/T7JmGzamSKI/AAAAAAAACXM/fCAPENewbTQ/s1600/sarcastic_fringehead.jpg

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:31 (twelve years ago)

― diarmuid o'gallus (imago), Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:34 (twelve years ago)

that's not fair

― diarmuid o'gallus (imago), Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:35 (twelve years ago)

When two fringeheads have a territorial battle, they wrestle by pressing their distended mouths against each other, as if they were kissing. This allows them to determine which is the larger fish, which establishes dominance.

wow

― 乒乓, Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:49 (twelve years ago)

is that purple thing its tongue?!

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Thursday, 31 October 2013 23:06 (twelve years ago)

More real animals that look like Pokemon:

http://api.ning.com/files/XlKvC0fcpC9Op*vPB*4bUWaoVA9UuN4lvcQ*aIfvEGBqLSHZAUl6ltEJd1I23bv-mrn5ohkM0Ut46XA3lLmfKQuiW*rE9wa3/6pinkfairyarmadillo.jpg

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Monday, 4 November 2013 23:00 (twelve years ago)

I mean, even its name: the Pink Fairy Armadillo.

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Monday, 4 November 2013 23:01 (twelve years ago)

Also, Irrawaddy Dolphin sez hi:

http://api.ning.com/files/XlKvC0fcpC8kOn7YijIqSYSLsdCEUhF7m6MWKngsovpL2mh8BkaGTbn*SfjFqd-Izt1mVRtePcab7cPiuFU8AADDDzhtFCGO/18irrawaddydolphin2.jpg

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Monday, 4 November 2013 23:09 (twelve years ago)

very important, both of those

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:50 (twelve years ago)

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/files/2013/11/Sea_slug_head_penetration-990x742.jpg

Newly discovered species of sea slugs doin it in each others' heads:

Every individual is a hermaphrodite with both male and female genitals. When they have sex, they can simultaneously penetrate each other, with penises that extend to their whole body length. “They are relatively well-endowed, says Lange.
The penises are also forked. One branch ends in a cone-shaped structure called the penile bulb, which is ringed by small spines. It goes inside the partner’s female genital opening, and delivers sperm. The other branch ends in a fiendish spine called the penile stylet. It stabs straight into the partner’s forehead, and pumps fluid from the prostate gland. So, during sex, each slug gets a dose of sperm in the usual place, and an injection of prostate fluid just above its eyes. This goes on for just over 40 minutes.

― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 14 November 2013 21:05 (twelve years ago)

aw yeah

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Thursday, 14 November 2013 21:06 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/2nyDxBJ.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange-peel_doris

― 乒乓, Sunday, 17 November 2013 22:46 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnkO46VLCYo

Cryptozoologists + viral marketing experts please advise

― 乒乓, Monday, 18 November 2013 02:25 (twelve years ago)

Looks like a very sick upside down whale

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Monday, 18 November 2013 03:50 (twelve years ago)

ffs :(