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.
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)
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 Fringeheadhttp://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)
no
― 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.
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 :(
― imago, Monday, 18 November 2013 04:27 (twelve years ago)
Dying Animals
http://i.imgur.com/g0EwKz3.gif
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 November 2013 13:03 (twelve years ago)
is it trying to flip over? what is it doing?
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 22 November 2013 15:07 (twelve years ago)
A bad human has placed it on its back and it doesn't know what to do
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 November 2013 15:15 (twelve years ago)
those flaps are gills iirc
― clouds, Friday, 22 November 2013 15:15 (twelve years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/BnWhKH7.jpg
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 November 2013 15:30 (twelve years ago)
poor thing :(
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 22 November 2013 16:08 (twelve years ago)
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c5/e4/e5/c5e4e582bd97d8d0c0a5a8fe05cabf9c.jpg
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 November 2013 17:39 (twelve years ago)
horseshoe crabs are awesome and their blood (which is bright blue) is worth more per gallon than (fact-checkers plz insert expensive liquid here) because it is used in gram stain tests
</half-remembered Facts4U articles I probably just read on ILX anyway>
― not a player-hater i just hate a lot (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 22 November 2013 21:12 (twelve years ago)
to hell with all these creatures
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 22 November 2013 21:28 (twelve years ago)
Turning this into the general zoology thread on ILX
http://i.imgur.com/SvRRGuQ.jpg
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 21:36 (twelve years ago)
Nessie, is that you?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 21:39 (twelve years ago)
aiaiaiagh!!!!
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:19 (twelve years ago)
http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/an-amazing-image-of-the-elusive-big-fin-squid/
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 30 November 2013 21:44 (twelve years ago)
Note the positive acceleration of the archerfish's spitwad:
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2013/11/archerfish-spitting.gif
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/archerfish-physics/
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 23:01 (twelve years ago)
Some sharks are warm-blooded: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/education/questions/biology.html#blooded
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 23:56 (twelve years ago)
Monotremes (e.g. platypuses and echidnas) don't have stomachs: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/03/how-the-platypus-and-a-quarter-of-fishes-lost-their-stomachs/
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 00:38 (twelve years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/6JJ2HMR.jpg
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/08/bizarre-mystery-fish-identified-freshwater-species-of-the-week/
― 乒乓, Friday, 6 December 2013 15:12 (twelve years ago)
Good gods, that looks like it came straight from the Paleozoic.
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Friday, 6 December 2013 18:00 (twelve years ago)
a searobin!
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 December 2013 19:06 (twelve years ago)
it looks like a head without a body
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 6 December 2013 19:34 (twelve years ago)
a motherf***er with some dark secrets
― brownie, Friday, 6 December 2013 19:57 (twelve years ago)
The Pacific leaping blenny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN0WukC0p1M#action=share
It lives its adult life out of water, hopping between rocks and breathing through its skin as well as gills. It relies on splashes from waves to stay wet, but it rarely—or never—goes for a swim.
The blenny is a fish.
http://inkfish.fieldofscience.com/2013/12/leaping-land-fish-has-perfect.html
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:51 (twelve years ago)
After three days, Morgans and Ord returned to their fake fish. If the props were nicked, punctured, or had bites taken out of them, the scientists assumed predators had come by. They saw that predators attacked blennies on the sand much more often than those on the rocks.
The blennies on the sand are those who have strayed from Christ, yo
― veneer timber (imago), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:55 (twelve years ago)
We remember the Barreleye Fish, right? Transparent head?
The dark spots you see above the fish’s mouth are actually capsules housing the fish’s olfactory organs, much like our nostrils. The real eyes, which are marked by green spherical lenses, are tremendously light sensitive, and protected by fluid within the shield.
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 19 December 2013 01:00 (twelve years ago)