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)
^^ Watched that while I had the Jessica Jones theme song playing in the background, totally works, maaaaan.
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Friday, 8 January 2016 05:48 (ten years ago)
Did we have these fellas yet?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMs8Cu8PNKM
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Sunday, 10 January 2016 22:09 (ten years ago)
THEY FLY @ U FACE
― new noise, Sunday, 10 January 2016 23:00 (ten years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/gAdCndd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Q3vafgL.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_jacana
― 龜, Sunday, 24 January 2016 17:13 (ten years ago)
Purple socks? Grape-flavored churros?
http://www.mbari.org/deep-sea-worms-slither-around-the-bottom-of-the-animal-tree-of-life/
― La Lechazunga (Leee), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 19:31 (ten years ago)
http://globalnews.ca/news/2239088/national-geographic-puts-spotlight-on-b-c-s-enigmatic-sea-wolves/
― ulysses, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 21:43 (ten years ago)
Hah wow I totally thought that was going to be about some kind of predatory eel.
― La Lechazunga (Leee), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 21:52 (ten years ago)
Like this wolf fish thing
http://www.sott.net/image/s13/267867/full/vllkyt5dr423icgh4_38b1be8f.jpg
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 22:29 (ten years ago)
Yeah! /faints
― La Lechazunga (Leee), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 22:42 (ten years ago)
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/casper-the-friendly-deep-sea-octopus-who-s-entirely-new-to-science/
― 龜, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:01 (ten years ago)
Awww man that's adorable. I want one to ride around on top of my head.
― bearded flack trickster god (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 March 2016 00:27 (ten years ago)
http://news.yale.edu/2016/03/16/solving-mystery-tully-monster
http://i.imgur.com/dWul70d.jpg
― 龜, Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:20 (ten years ago)
Definitely weird!
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:40 (ten years ago)
beautiful nose
― ulysses, Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:42 (ten years ago)
OK, they're sure they didn't just find a petrified flamingo?
― bearded flack trickster god (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:50 (ten years ago)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13991-horror-frog-breaks-own-bones-to-produce-claws/
― 龜, Sunday, 27 March 2016 20:16 (ten years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/qnwzsny.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 27 March 2016 20:17 (ten years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/DFfMJrB.jpg
I find the hairiness infinitely more disturbing tbh
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 March 2016 10:29 (ten years ago)
A very WTF Evolution animal where it didn't know when to stop.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 28 March 2016 18:50 (ten years ago)
They remind me of Geza Csath's short story "Toad," in which a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill.
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 March 2016 19:30 (ten years ago)
new display name, cheers
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:55 (ten years ago)
Haha happy to help
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 31 March 2016 04:08 (ten years ago)
BTW, what Geza Csath book is that in? Opium?
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 March 2016 05:26 (ten years ago)
Well, there are two anthologies of his stuff called that - I think it might've been the Penguin one with Attila Sassy art, but I can't find a table of contents for that, so it might've been the other version. It's been like fifteen years since I read it and I don't have the book anymore, but it obviously made an impression.
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 31 March 2016 05:43 (ten years ago)
I've been lusting after that Penguin book for a while, but it sells for about $200
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 March 2016 23:23 (ten years ago)
sorry, I'm turning this into an ILB thread
Bizarre fossil hauled its offspring around 'like kites'
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 09:26 (ten years ago)
Well that's it. That's the craziest fucking thing I've seen this year.
― a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 10:45 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsHCqrrU-Gk
― 龜, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 11:57 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWmDeoNGWvU
― ulysses, Saturday, 9 April 2016 05:52 (ten years ago)
http://www.sciencealert.com/images/2016-04/swellshark2.jpg
― Kevin Ageusia Smith (wins), Saturday, 9 April 2016 06:49 (ten years ago)
That shark is not swell.
― emil.y, Saturday, 9 April 2016 13:44 (ten years ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpheidae
When in colonies, the snapping shrimp can interfere with sonar and underwater communication.[5][6][7] The shrimp are a major source of noise in the ocean.[5]
― 龜, Saturday, 9 April 2016 21:20 (ten years ago)