I will continue to wear headphone, then.
Fascinating worm btw!
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 26 June 2015 23:46 (ten years ago)
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/24/8838169/hallucigenia-worm-fossil-nature-study-2015
― 龜, Saturday, 27 June 2015 00:36 (ten years ago)
wow
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 June 2015 02:54 (ten years ago)
<img src="http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/visiting/images/Dodo.jpg";>the only known preserved soft tissue sample of the dodohttp://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/visiting/presenting.htm
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 July 2015 05:13 (ten years ago)
http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/visiting/images/Dodo.jpg
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/05/14/the-newest-crayfish-species-looks-like-a-lisa-frank-creation/?postshare=7241431614283673
― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 00:48 (ten years ago)
Would buy Cherax pulcher branded stationary.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 01:43 (ten years ago)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27482-zoologger-necrophiliac-spider-mite-prefers-its-mate-dead.html
― :wq (Leee), Thursday, 9 July 2015 22:07 (ten years ago)
http://nerdist.com/this-is-not-a-snake-its-some-of-the-best-mimicry-weve-ever-seen/
― :wq (Leee), Saturday, 11 July 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)
That is amazing.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 11 July 2015 03:21 (ten years ago)
All the instructions to make an animal’s body are in each one of its individual cells. But how does an embryo know that a scrotum should be built in the groin, and not on your forehead?
Rest of the article gets better from there: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/6-extra-pairs-genitals-just-much-good-thing/
― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 00:03 (ten years ago)
For 13 days, D. darius destroys and reforms itself inside what looks like the head of a Gaboon pit viper (though the snakes aren’t native to Trinidad).
HOW THE HELL DID IT LEARN HOW TO LOOK LIKE A SNAKE ITS NEVER SEEN. D:
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 03:28 (ten years ago)
Srsly do these 'pillers have YouTube or something, what gives.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 03:29 (ten years ago)
Saw it in Nat Geo, thought it looked cool
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 07:58 (ten years ago)
One thing you won’t find in the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar is the part where after transforming into a butterfly, he mates with a female who has a Very Hungry Reproductive Tract waiting to devour his sperm. She has a special digestive organ just for this purpose. It’s so powerful that it could even compete with the gut that let the caterpillar, in his more innocent days, chew through those five oranges.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2015/05/28/butterflies-have-an-extra-stomach-attached-to-their-vaginas/#.VWirw1I3C6E
― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 15:56 (ten years ago)
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/02/single-celled-creature-has-eye-made-of-domesticated-microbes/
― :wq (Leee), Thursday, 16 July 2015 20:32 (ten years ago)
Young female blanket octopuses literally rip the tentacles right off portuguese man-o-war jellies, and uses them like little octopus nunchuks
http://www.deepseanews.com/2015/05/six-reasons-the-blanket-octopus-is-my-new-favorite-cephalopod/
― :wq (Leee), Friday, 17 July 2015 00:04 (ten years ago)
Woah.
The more I see stuff like those last 2 links, the more I think I know nothing (jon snow). The ocean is just this whole unexplored pile of crazy.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Friday, 17 July 2015 00:09 (ten years ago)
It's not just you -- science still has huge gaps concerning the oceans, especially the deep seas!
― :wq (Leee), Friday, 17 July 2015 00:35 (ten years ago)
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150720-giant-animals-youve-never-seen
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 August 2015 15:55 (ten years ago)
That's a lot of giant animals, dunno if I have that kind of time.
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 05:11 (ten years ago)
lol
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 05:11 (ten years ago)
Imagine a woodlouse that can grow longer than a cat, 76cm (2.5 ft) long – and weigh 1.7kg (3.75 lb). Well, it exists and it's called the giant isopod.
>:(
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 12:33 (ten years ago)
Yeah, I'm not a fan of those either.
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:00 (ten years ago)
it's the 12-inch-wide spider that's worrying me
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:10 (ten years ago)
http://cdn.bleedingcool.net/wp-content/uploads//2010/09/isopods-eating-doritos-570x329.jpg
But giant isopods, they're just like us!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:10 (ten years ago)
REMOVE BOOKMARK FROM THIS THREAD
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:16 (ten years ago)
Just some chill dudes chompin on some chips.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:19 (ten years ago)
Wait, how do you not like the isopod? They're so cute.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:44 (ten years ago)
*waves*
http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/the-grossest-creature-insect-ever.jpg?w=634&h=476
― emil.y, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:50 (ten years ago)
no
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:40 (ten years ago)
― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 16:02 (ten years ago)
emil.y
isopod friend 4 u
http://img15.deviantart.net/c189/i/2011/245/2/d/ivan_the_giant_isopod_by_tarrpit-d48oczi.jpg
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 18:49 (ten years ago)
click at your own risk
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 18:52 (ten years ago)
in fact they are so cute that you can buy fluffy zip-mouthed isopods from Ikea* and while you slept we all voted to replace the Easter Bunny with onehttps://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5084/5225877787_25a7042457.jpg
(except you can't, because they're discontinued, and they were probably meant to be woodlice anyway. RIP Klappar Skalbagge)
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 21:14 (ten years ago)
the main takeaway from forks' link is that the human virus (trenchant!) is wiping almost all of them out
― imago, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 21:21 (ten years ago)
Moving on from giant isopod grossness:
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/absurd-creature-of-the-week-tarantula-hawk/?mbid=social_fb
“There are some vivid descriptions of people getting stung by these things,” says invertebrate biologist Ben Hutchins of Texas Parks and Wildlife, “and their recommendation—and this was actually in a peer-reviewed journal—was to just lie down and start screaming [...]”
Surprisingly not native to Australia.
― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 22:16 (ten years ago)
Weird plants! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2015/07/21/plants-murder-bugs-to-pay-their-bodyguards/
Scientists have noticed that the corpse-covered plants can attract other, predatory insects that are looking for food. And while they’re in the neighborhood, these predators might eat some of the plant’s pests—critters that haven’t gotten caught in the flypaper but are happily munching on the their host’s leaves and flowers. One study of a sticky daisy found that these predators were helpful to the plant.
― :wq (Leee), Friday, 7 August 2015 23:35 (ten years ago)
xp lol
It’s actually a kind of solitary wasp with a sting whose resulting pain only lasts three minutes, but it’s so fiercely electric that it could only be described as totally unacceptable.
― new noise, Friday, 7 August 2015 23:41 (ten years ago)
or "unchill"
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 August 2015 01:58 (ten years ago)
Did we not have a thread solely about giant isopods at one stage?
― ailsa, Sunday, 9 August 2015 22:43 (ten years ago)
fuck washing an isopod
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 9 August 2015 23:35 (ten years ago)
Weird Animals... What's on your isopod?
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 August 2015 01:35 (ten years ago)
Wet clicking noises and hisses that eventually start to sound like whispered, inhuman voices calling you to the deep
and Tinashe
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 10 August 2015 03:32 (ten years ago)
Not super-appropriate for this thread, in that the animals aren't especially weird, but I liked this story full of videos of (mostly) Australian wildlife attacking drones, and needed to share it: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/13/eagle-attacking-drone-mid-air-animals-averse-uavs?CMP=ema_632
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 14 August 2015 02:16 (ten years ago)
Flannel moth caterpillar in action:
https://45.media.tumblr.com/e4445b55f4b43c723191b26908720f5c/tumblr_nz0s1hR8WR1s3yrubo1_r2_1280.gif
― :wq (Leee), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 22:22 (ten years ago)
i went to the water bears exhibit at the museum of natural history and it was amazing
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 00:25 (ten years ago)
Reminds me of this http://www.classickidstv.co.uk/wiki/images/c/c5/Dangermouse_Greenback.jpg
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 00:26 (ten years ago)
https://41.media.tumblr.com/21463416033ed990920b047d59a25128/tumblr_nz603qp0zf1qm9k25o1_540.jpg
Pretty nudibranch.
― :wq (Leee), Friday, 11 December 2015 00:57 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ZnO893hTs
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:42 (ten years ago)