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)
Ah yes the brain fish
― 乒乓, Thursday, 19 December 2013 01:02 (twelve years ago)
That thing is insane.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 19 December 2013 01:34 (twelve years ago)
http://www.nuestromar.org/noticias/categorias/11-12-13/espeluznante-criatura-hallada-en-ant-rtida
http://i.imgur.com/vr1Rjku.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/gNa2Dog.jpg
― 龜, Thursday, 2 January 2014 18:14 (twelve years ago)
/shivers
― Matt Groening is MY Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 2 January 2014 18:15 (twelve years ago)
i can't read spanish - how do i avoid this thing?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 2 January 2014 18:22 (twelve years ago)
don't go to antarctica.
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 January 2014 18:26 (twelve years ago)
*feverishly cancels vacation plans*
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 2 January 2014 18:51 (twelve years ago)
http://www.oneringzero.com/unusualcreatures/images/creatures2_20.jpg
From awesome all-illustrated Unusual Creatures book I gave to my 6 year old this Xmas.
http://unusualcreatures.com/
They also have a series of all-weird-instruments songs for their unusual creatures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc0DDSuLegA
― Plasmon, Friday, 3 January 2014 01:49 (twelve years ago)
That's awesome
― 龜, Friday, 3 January 2014 13:55 (twelve years ago)
New kind of jellyfish discovered. Looks like someone was sick on the beach:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26062303
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 6 February 2014 12:40 (twelve years ago)
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72789000/jpg/_72789866_jf.jpg
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 6 February 2014 12:41 (twelve years ago)
Disgusting!
― eeeLastica (Leee), Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:08 (twelve years ago)
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/leech-can-survive-24-hour-submersion-liquid-nitrogen
Every single leech placed in -130°F (-90°C) storage survived for nine months. In other words, these leeches can easily survive at temperatures lower than those ever measured by a thermometer on Earth, for as long as it takes to conceive and give birth to a human child. Some of the leeches survived at this temperature for 32 months, or more than 2.5 years.
― eeeLastica (Leee), Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:09 (twelve years ago)
The Praya dubia, or Giant Siphonophore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praya_dubia): 40-50m long marine "animal" made up of thousands of individual animalshttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Dnaxl_N5E8A/TIU_Df1zwlI/AAAAAAAAAAs/Nq_Z98Jw90w/s640/praya-dubia.jpg
See also the Pyrosome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrosome)http://deepseanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-23-at-10.10.13-AM-600x443.png
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 February 2014 23:54 (twelve years ago)
That second one is unreal -- is it actually that big, or is there some optical illusion going on??
― eeeLastica (Leee), Friday, 7 February 2014 01:47 (twelve years ago)
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/files/2014/01/balloon-lumpsuckers.jpg
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2014/01/27/lumpsucker-fish-just-when-you-thought-the-ocean-couldnt-get-more-lumpy-and-adhesive/
Other than looking like swollen eyeballs… with eyeballs… lumpsuckers have some pretty strange things going on. For one, they’re pretty awful swimmers, thanks to their round bodies and tiny fins, and when disturbed they tend to flap around aimlessly in different directions. Which is not how escape generally happens. As newly hatched larvae they are surprisingly well developed, equipped with a fully functional mouth and well-developed digestive system. This allows them to begin feeding on tiny crustaceans and fish just 10 days after hatching. Sometimes they’ll resort to eating each other because nature.
― eeeLastica (Leee), Friday, 7 February 2014 01:48 (twelve years ago)
siphonophore are insanehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT1TSbarW1U
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 February 2014 02:09 (twelve years ago)
They actually get that big--apparently people have been warned not to try swimming through the tube, as they might get stuck and drown.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Friday, 7 February 2014 02:39 (twelve years ago)
The siphonophore is some At the Mountains of Madness shit.
― NO GODS, NO MUSTARD (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 7 February 2014 05:15 (twelve years ago)
I would say the Portuguese man o war is the weirdest creature (creatures) on earth
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:29 (twelve years ago)
https://healthcarecenters.martinspoint.org/doctors-and-providers/maine/brunswick-bowdoin/~/media/Images/Global/220x90/hcc_become_patient.jpg?mh=90&mw=220
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:48 (twelve years ago)
http://www.pakalertpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/15-Modern-Sea-Monsters-Photos-And-Video.jpg
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 7 February 2014 21:07 (twelve years ago)
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/11/27/15-modern-sea-monsters-photos-and-video/
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 7 February 2014 21:16 (twelve years ago)