http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/files/2014/09/octopus-joshua-lambas.jpg
Joshua: This was a pretty exciting image to capture. It’s actually become one of my favourites over the years. When I first saw the [octopus] it was balled up very small and didn’t show the siphonophore tentacles at all. After the first flash of my strobes it unfurled its tentacles, changed colours and presented the the man o’ war tentacles you see in the photo. It was quite a surprise and almost like watching a flower blossom. It took me many years to track down someone that knew what the species was, as it had not been seen many times before. It very likely that it is using the tentacles as a defence against would be predators.
― My Life with the Thrillho Kult (Leee), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:35 (eleven years ago)
10-Foot Bobbit Worm Is Ocean’s Most Disturbing PredatorThe Ferocious Bug That Sucks Prey Dry and Wears Their CorpsesThis Marsupial Has Marathon Sex Until It Goes Blind and Drops Dead
― 龜, Friday, 24 October 2014 02:37 (eleven years ago)
http://deepseanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Rocha4.jpg
http://deepseanews.com/2014/10/interview-with-the-vampire-blennies/
― Big Orange Machine (Leee), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 19:51 (eleven years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/7wbVOVe.gif
― 龜, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:37 (eleven years ago)
!!
Is that a velvet worm?
― In Which Doctor Who Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time (Leee), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:52 (eleven years ago)
that's a cronenberg lipped nightmare is what that is
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 November 2014 05:11 (eleven years ago)
Blue Velvet worm then.
― In Which Doctor Who Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time (Leee), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:33 (eleven years ago)
candycoloredclownfish
― So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:42 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMUYyCSNsbs
― 龜, Friday, 5 December 2014 18:03 (eleven years ago)
That's not weird, that's gross. (I hate crustaceans.)
Meanwhile:
A fish swims in the Amazon, amid murky water and overgrown vegetation. It is concealed, but it’s not safe. Suddenly, two rapid bursts of electricity course through the water, activating the neurons that control the fish’s muscles. It twitches, giving away its position, and dooming itself. Now, it gets zapped by a continuous volley of electric pulses. All its muscles contract and its body stiffens. It can’t escape; it can’t even move. Its attacker—an electric eel—moves in for the kill.The electric eel can (in)famously create its own electricity. More than four-fifths of its two-metre-long body consists of special battery-like cells, which can collectively deliver a jolt of up to 600 volts. But the way the eel uses that ability is even more shocking. Kenneth Catania from Vanderbilt University has found that this astonishing predator can use its electricity like a remote control, activating its prey’s muscles from afar. It effectively has a button that says “Reveal Yourself” and another that says “Freeze”.
The electric eel can (in)famously create its own electricity. More than four-fifths of its two-metre-long body consists of special battery-like cells, which can collectively deliver a jolt of up to 600 volts. But the way the eel uses that ability is even more shocking. Kenneth Catania from Vanderbilt University has found that this astonishing predator can use its electricity like a remote control, activating its prey’s muscles from afar. It effectively has a button that says “Reveal Yourself” and another that says “Freeze”.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/04/electric-eels-can-remotely-control-their-preys-muscles/
― TAKING SIDES: HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLEEE (Leee), Friday, 5 December 2014 21:26 (eleven years ago)
The evocatively named snot otter:
http://www.onearth.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_image/public/uploaded-files/5371066350_137cd71c92_b.jpg?itok=Ngx9LD5S
http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/snot-otter-sexy-times
― TAKING SIDES: HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLEEE (Leee), Monday, 8 December 2014 19:14 (eleven years ago)
http://youtu.be/IakXyq7zz5Y
― TAKING SIDES: HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLEEE (Leee), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:49 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBxsm5T2yN8A new find at Mariana Trench: a fish that lives deeper in the ocean than anything else ever discovered
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 December 2014 08:04 (eleven years ago)
Amazing! Pretty delicate looking for living at that depth. (I am not a fish biologist.)
― Pooja Bhatt's erotic thriller Jism 2 (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 19 December 2014 09:22 (eleven years ago)
I wonder what would happen to a fish used to that pressure if you took it to near the surface
― ogmor, Friday, 19 December 2014 16:40 (eleven years ago)
They'd probably just liquefy, no?
― carl agatha, Friday, 19 December 2014 17:17 (eleven years ago)
ok I looked it up apparently deep sea fish have 'swim bladders' to alter their buoyancy and the gas pressure as it comes to the surface would make it swell so much it would force the fish's stomach out of its mouth. apparently they have more fluid cell membranes and "ooze internally" and even suffer neurological damage if you bring them up. I hope this has been educational
― ogmor, Friday, 19 December 2014 18:27 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgDE2DOICuc
<3 <3 <3
― 龜, Thursday, 8 January 2015 13:07 (eleven years ago)
Cuttlefish are the best.
― pelvic slang (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:56 (eleven years ago)
They are super smart!
― carl agatha, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:07 (eleven years ago)
I'm probably smarter. Probably.
― Jeff, Friday, 9 January 2015 03:46 (eleven years ago)
Cuttlefish and octopuses are so awesome.
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 22:00 (eleven years ago)
Infuriated male [sloths] try to hit each other when they are still distant by more than a metre and a half.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/24/sloths-and-armadillos-see-the-world-in-black-and-white/
http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/post/108081475537/hey-everyone-likes-spiders-right-well
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 18:03 (eleven years ago)
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-alaskan-frozen-frogs-20140723-story.htmlhttp://adlayasanimals.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/wood_frog_15.jpg
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:26 (eleven years ago)
If you'll pardon the pun: Cool!
Plus:
I'm asking, what about the parasites and all the cool things that live in its mouth and its butt?
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Sunday, 18 January 2015 20:39 (eleven years ago)
Sounds like a forks display name
― 龜, Sunday, 18 January 2015 20:51 (eleven years ago)
don't mind if i do
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 January 2015 23:42 (eleven years ago)
:I
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Monday, 19 January 2015 00:24 (eleven years ago)
:|
― 龜, Monday, 19 January 2015 00:28 (eleven years ago)
:)
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 January 2015 01:01 (eleven years ago)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/01/21/frilled-shark-sea-monster-caught-australia-coast/22099613/
― 龜, Thursday, 22 January 2015 04:59 (eleven years ago)
https://40.media.tumblr.com/c0b229d7df10a61f76576ea96d47c442/tumblr_nhu2eg99JW1qm9k25o1_540.jpg
More about this melted foot: http://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/108919850198/one-serious-snail-the-lewis-moon-snail-polinices
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Friday, 23 January 2015 18:20 (eleven years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/9veCkVJ.gif
― 龜, Monday, 26 January 2015 22:15 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_46e0SgYQEmarabou storks are trippy mang
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 January 2015 07:47 (eleven years ago)
http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/post/110074480358/ooh-thats-a-nice-fish-evolution-oh-thanks
And make sure to click on that Flickr link (https://www.flickr.com/photos/pacificklaus/sets/72157633230955033/).
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:53 (eleven years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/ZQBrEg5.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:56 (eleven years ago)
As always I'm reminded of http://i.imgur.com/AgI5ExX.png
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:57 (eleven years ago)
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/12/two-faced-insect-is-both-sheep-and-sheep-in-wolfs-clothing/
Everything is weird with this one, can't just excerpt one thing.
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:36 (eleven years ago)
nice find--just the 9 different bodies thing is a weird enough, and that's only the beginning of the weirdness.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:26 (eleven years ago)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11392825/Mystery-tuna-creature-is-tongue-eating-parasite-says-expert.html
http://i.imgur.com/X3wROMM.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 6 February 2015 00:46 (eleven years ago)
I think it's so cute <3
Closeup:
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03188/tuna-woman-creatur_3188626c.jpg
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Friday, 6 February 2015 00:55 (eleven years ago)
<img src="http://education.gtj.org.uk/storage/Components/123/12340_1.JPG";>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_Dog
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:46 (eleven years ago)
whoopshttp://education.gtj.org.uk/storage/Components/123/12340_1.JPGhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_Dog
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:47 (eleven years ago)
why have a penis, when you can be a penis?
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:52 (eleven years ago)
Why don't they just call it the boner worm
― 龜, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:28 (eleven years ago)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/287737863668586963/
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 February 2015 22:08 (eleven years ago)
http://io9.com/newly-discovered-sparklemuffin-peacock-spider-is-here-1688278369http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--W6Bq4VwZ--/c_fit%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_80%2Cw_636/njzreysppbpra1t35jmy.jpg
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 March 2015 06:37 (eleven years ago)
Iron-shelled snail that lives around hydrothermic vents in the ocean:
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/absurd-creature-of-the-week-scaly-foot-snail/
It even has iron scales on it's foot-stomach.
― boretanic snoremaster (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2015 12:16 (eleven years ago)