Weird Animals

If that's a clam, it's a fucked up one!

I think that's it's foot, actually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_jackknife_clam

meet the rhinoceros auklet
http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1061/804374223_c1d81ed086.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Tz9Yjjyw0
they like pottery
https://vimeo.com/104815923

http://i.imgur.com/7wfAVbS.gif

http://i.imgur.com/VvsRpuf.gif

wtf no War of the Worlds gifs here man oh wait.

Love that dude, he's all pipe cleaners and LEDs

http://i.imgur.com/mIqHiux.jpg

Feel better about my own job now.

Not as weird as some, but I was explaining to my daughter about wobbegongs last night, and thought they belonged here in their role as beautiful/weird sharks:

http://www.elasmodiver.com/Sharkive%20images/Banded%20Wobbegong%20036.jpg

newly discovered Australian dancing peacock spiders
https://zippy.gfycat.com/BackMadeupBrownbutterfly.webm

Hahaha I highly recommend watching that while listening to Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody".

whaaaat how'd they miss those guys?

they are literally trying as hard as they can to get your attention

"i guess we gotta evolve speech now."

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36418545

this is a gd article to read when yr phone is working w slow data & you have a lil time to imagine up a baby dragon while the imgs are loading

GoT tie in

they look like axolotl?

http://i.imgur.com/JT497kj.jpg

What is that?! I like it very much. Note the eye and the delicate violet plumage.

looks like a bird of paradise of some kind

If possible, please can you get it for me.

i can get you the wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles_paradise_flycatcher

note: this isn't a true bird of paradise, even though 'paradise' is in the name

I am not convinced it is the same one. I think it looks more like the Japanese paradise flycatcher.

But actually, all the paradise flycatcher species appear to be lovely. See below:

http://www.africanbirdclub.org/sites/default/files/Mascarene-Par2.jpg

Not weird, but clearly very important.

ya agreed. that family of birds is very important all around

http://pixdaus.com/files/items/pics/0/31/549031_fe84394b9a4d10c5b6762b2c7994b7e6_large.jpg

here's a yellow-breasted boatbill

It is so clever. <3

sorry about your thread though, dayo. to atone for this invasion of Monarch Flycatchers, I will post an animal of genuinely unhinged behaviour, whose name is also Monarch:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/news/photos/000/810/81092.adapt.768.1.jpg

worth reading up on the Monarch butterfly - it seems to be going the way of the Passenger Pigeon, which in a few decades went from America's most populous bird (the Monarch butterfly is/was the most populous butterfly too) to completely extinct due to population crash and migration failure. the Monarch is running out of habitat and its numbers are falling through the floor. it's all horrible

Where I live the Monarchs used to pass through as part of their migration - you'd see tons of trees (eucalyptus, I think) covered with them like that picture, it was crazy. Now you see a few but nothing like that.

http://i.imgur.com/piL9mvg.gif

Wtf are we looking at there? An eel attempting to climb a decapitated crocodile?

looks like an electric eel, judging from the light up Croc

where can i get a light up decapitated crocodile

I think you just mod a standard decapitated croc.

is there like a kit or

stupidly, i did not see the lights

The Tennessee Aquarium in the United States is home to an electric eel that uses its electrical discharges to post from its own Twitter account. Named Miguel Wattson, the eel's exhibit is wired to a small computer that sends out a prewritten tweet when it emits electricity at a high enough threshold.[13][14][relevant? – discuss]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/01/giant-swimming-venomous-centipede-found-south-east-asia
http://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/830b56a6e96218b7c7f2bcbe03a1b1acd0860613/100_774_1221_732/master/1221.jpg

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

NEVER GOING IN WATER AGAIN

aw, cmon, the water's warm.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/newly-discovered-underwater-volcanic-range-teeming-bizarre-tiny-fanged-fish

http://media.mnn.com/assets/images/2015/07/deep-sea-fish.jpg.653x0_q80_crop-smart.jpg

Reading about the amazing Australian lyrebird and its mimicking ability, including the way it passes on "recorded" sounds from generatiion to generation...

In 1969, a park ranger, Neville Fenton, recorded a lyrebird song which resembled flute sounds in the New England National Park, near Dorrigo in northern coastal New South Wales. After much detective work by Fenton, it was discovered that in the 1930s, a flute player living on a farm adjoining the park used to play tunes near his pet lyrebird. The lyrebird adopted the tunes into his repertoire, and retained them after release into the park. Neville Fenton forwarded a tape of his recording to Norman Robinson. Because a lyrebird is able to carry two tunes at the same time, Robinson filtered out one of the tunes and put it on the phonograph for the purposes of analysis. The song represents a modified version of two popular tunes in the 1930s: "The Keel Row" and "Mosquito's Dance". Musicologist

very curious how accurate it is, and how accurately the tune is preserved down the avian generations

Because a lyrebird is able to carry two tunes at the same time

this is so exciting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyeqo1qRVg

One of my favorite 80s giallo movies

Ha, yes.

Scientists fight crab for mysterious purple orb discovered in California deep

My favorite Call of Cthulhu module

I got a million of em

sorry

https://twitter.com/Strange_Animals/status/764080287365988352

"The bloodybelly comb jelly produces rainbow lights from its beating cilia, propelling it through the water."