i like the two that look like they've already been deep fried.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 September 2016 17:30 (nine years ago)
https://youtu.be/XSQ_ajl3cvE
― rm -rf / (Leee), Friday, 23 September 2016 03:34 (nine years ago)
Whoa. Junior Varsity Basketball Fox.
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 23 September 2016 06:44 (nine years ago)
more proof of god's sense of humor
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 24 September 2016 17:04 (nine years ago)
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/08/23/sea-urchins-pull-themselves-inside-out-to-be-reborn/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=urchins&utm_content=KQEDScience&utm_campaign=DL_urchins
The larval urchin drifts in the ocean currents as a member of the plankton for a month or longer. How does it change from a tiny drifter the size of a grain of sand to a bottom-dwelling ball of spines?Halfway through its voyage out to sea, “something very interesting happens,” Hodin says. “They do a little trick to try to make that transformation from being a larva to being a juvenile happen faster.” They begin to grow the juvenile urchin form — a miniature adult — inside of the larva’s body.
Halfway through its voyage out to sea, “something very interesting happens,” Hodin says. “They do a little trick to try to make that transformation from being a larva to being a juvenile happen faster.” They begin to grow the juvenile urchin form — a miniature adult — inside of the larva’s body.
― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Friday, 30 September 2016 22:53 (nine years ago)
When it reaches the rocky shore, the juvenile urchin bursts out.
― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Friday, 30 September 2016 22:54 (nine years ago)
a koan in action
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Saturday, 1 October 2016 05:46 (nine years ago)
mirror spiders!
― aloof club (doo dah), Sunday, 2 October 2016 01:43 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/ZbQTFM6.gif
sea robins
― 龜, Sunday, 2 October 2016 21:55 (nine years ago)
I can see why they're called that. They really evoke the pudgy jollyness of the bird.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Monday, 3 October 2016 11:46 (nine years ago)
my second time posting this link but i do think it's worth spreadinghttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2106331-fish-recorded-singing-dawn-chorus-on-reefs-just-like-birds/
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 23:27 (nine years ago)
that's amazing
― ogmor, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:35 (nine years ago)
the friend that sent it to me promptly wrote them to ask if they could share more samples which they didn't respond to but i love her for trying
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:47 (nine years ago)
also because not everyone knows about trapdoor spiders i guesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAb5iLFZ12E
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:48 (nine years ago)
We have trapdoor spiders all over our garden here in australia too. Their tunnels are so neat.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:08 (nine years ago)
Also xp love the fish dawn chorus!
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:09 (nine years ago)
Prefer Boards of Canada's "Dawn Chorus" tbh.
― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Thursday, 6 October 2016 02:17 (nine years ago)
rude
― clouds, Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:39 (nine years ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strap-toothed_whale
― 龜, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:00 (nine years ago)
There don't seem to be any good, illustrative pictures of it, which is frustrating.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:24 (nine years ago)
Found its rookie card
http://i65.tinypic.com/2eduqok.jpg
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 17 October 2016 04:47 (nine years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Cococrb2.jpg
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 23:13 (nine years ago)
Land crabs are freaky!
― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 23:23 (nine years ago)
Is that a coconut crab? Those things are right out of a nightmare.
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 23 October 2016 12:30 (nine years ago)
Speaking of giant arthropods, see an Australian huntsman spider carrying a mouse up a wall: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/24/australia-giant-spider-mouse-carry-horrifying-impressive?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+AUS+v1+-+AUS+morning+mail+callout&utm_term=196316&subid=7133936&CMP=ema_632
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 02:19 (nine years ago)
Always a little sad when a vertebrate loses out to an invertebrate, IMO.
― Pean-Juc Leeecard (Leee), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:09 (nine years ago)
"yes, i'm having problems with mice in my house. i was wondering if you have anything that could help?""well, he have these huntsman spiders...""you know what, mice are fine. i'm good."
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 18:33 (nine years ago)
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-newly-discovered-centipede-has-hundreds-of-legs-and-three-extra-dicks?asd?utm_source=mbtwitter
― 龜, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 12:02 (nine years ago)
Cthulu recorded in motion: https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/152351380498/a-feather-star-takes-flight-into-abyssal-skies
― Pean-Juc Leeecard (Leee), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 22:16 (nine years ago)
My parents just went on a holiday to Lord Howe Island, off the Australian coast, and got to play with the Lord Howe phasmid, rarest insect in the world (a kind of gigantic stick insect): http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2014/06/lord-howe-island-stick-insect-phasmid
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 23:33 (nine years ago)
Here's one on Attenborough: http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/2/4/c/v/r/image.related.articleLeadNarrow.300x0.24cu9.png/1345174248910.jpg
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 23:34 (nine years ago)
The long-term plan is for rodents to be eradicated from Lord Howe Island and the captive population of stick insects reintroduced, with a species of owl to keep their new population in check.
Hopefully they control the owls by introducing gorillas.
― Pean-Juc Leeecard (Leee), Thursday, 27 October 2016 00:46 (nine years ago)
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/science-dendrogramma-two-unclassifiable-deep-sea-animals-australia-02134.html?utm_source=TractionNext&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Insider-Subscribe-181116Freaky Australian fungus-like sea creatures, nobody knows what they are related to
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/spider-eating-bone-house-wasp-deuteragenia-ossarium-uses-ant-corpses-ward-off-nest-predators-1455145?utm_source=TractionNext&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Insider-Subscribe-181116Chinese wasp makes nest out of dead ants, eats giant spiders
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 18 November 2016 03:22 (nine years ago)
Uh, I vote for the wee mushroom things.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Friday, 18 November 2016 07:18 (nine years ago)
cute mostly but sorta weirdhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uEfmQt34Nc
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 04:22 (nine years ago)
http://frikiskrew.com/post/152955378766/aaaaag-que-asco-una-rata-fus-rata-fuuuus
what the fuck kinda monkey is this
― 龜, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 17:31 (nine years ago)
a gibbon methinkshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSLFHPd8LX0
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 17:51 (nine years ago)
A lar gibbon, maybe?
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 20:16 (nine years ago)
I'd never seen video of a Crinoid before.
https://mobile.twitter.com/gabrielenguard/status/802413011528916992/photo/1
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Sunday, 27 November 2016 09:34 (nine years ago)
Whoa, it's like something from a Madeline L'Engle book.
― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 27 November 2016 11:18 (nine years ago)
* Madeleine
Dumbo octopuses looking ugly in old age shockah:
https://67.media.tumblr.com/d0189ca0b2ac6e3edc3e8ad3a401876f/tumblr_ofo06fPJZX1rj5timo1_540.jpg
― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 19:12 (nine years ago)
we should look so good when we're their age
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 20:07 (nine years ago)
Awwwww, still kind of cute, has a built-in nanna nightie
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 00:13 (nine years ago)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/pointy-nosed-blue-chimaeras-ghost-sharks/
― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2016 15:21 (nine years ago)
ok, that thing is awesome.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 16 December 2016 15:44 (nine years ago)
couldn't get that video to play, but this one is up and is super awesome even if it's a terrible urlhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ghost-shark-chimaera-penis-head-deep-sea-exploration-a7479201.html
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Friday, 16 December 2016 16:01 (nine years ago)
It's partly the same footage. Excellent weird animal though.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 16 December 2016 16:22 (nine years ago)
just learned about horsehair worms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap8Ts6lv_k0
― 龜, Saturday, 17 December 2016 14:34 (nine years ago)
Bleurgh! (Parasites inspire a primitive revulsion, don't you think?)
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Saturday, 17 December 2016 16:35 (nine years ago)