Weird Animals

right? so bizarre -- they can't even really study them well because they just fall apart when they attempt to capture them

news of a single-celled organism that can grow to nearly a foot across is kinda blowing my mind tbh

makes me wonder why i bother having all these other cells

the biggest cell, the best cell

Note that there are many, many cell nuclei in that xenophyophore, they just share a common cytoplasm. All it takes is nuclear replication without cytokinesis. Seems a perfectly reasonable solution for organisms with no need for tissue differentiation or cell migration during development.

Xenophyophores aren't the largest multinucleated cells. The aquatic algae Caulerpa taxifolia grows to 6-12 inches long. The pretzel slime mold Hemitrichia serpula is one you could find in temperate forests.

http://www.ispotnature.org/sites/default/files/images/51608/39f663908013471a17b43bfe643858c1.jpg

^aren't the largest by some measures. Also, wiki tells me that some filamentous mold cells extend hundreds of meters.

mmmm pretzel cells

Dammit ulysses beat me to it.

i'm getting alphabetti spaghetti vibes

Should thread title be changed to weird eukaryotes since we've now moved into slime mold and sea floor "thing" territory

Weird living things would be sufficiently broad, I think. Plus, we're leaving out the botanists.

Hydnora africana
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4HaK29r8LuI/UMsTw8EcQAI/AAAAAAAAFuQ/zgFRoL-WEOk/s1600/hydnora_africana_flower.jpg

S/D plants that look like they're screaming

Plants that look like screaming hamburgers.

feed me seymour

thanks for that tidbit sanpaku, v interesting. i'm so not a science person but i'm trying to be!

BTW, I was wrong about Caulerpa taxifolia - single multinucleate cells can have creeping stolons that extend for several meters. It isn't rare at all, this is the invasiver algae that's wiping out native life in the Mediterranean, as none of the local herbivores are adapted to its toxins.

http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/ContentImages/_w/bio_Caul.diagram_jpg.jpg

https://ladygeekgirl.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/the-langoliers.jpg

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http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/mystery-creature-washes-up-on-seram-island-in-indonesia/news-story/b628f1e1ca3813a29307398dabb4f589

gotta be a whale of some kind right? kinda crazy to be wading in there with that imo but hey

https://68.media.tumblr.com/16af3c5116489a19f3b596f674916c61/tumblr_inline_opt1laX9K01qk45js_1280.jpg

https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/160560037918/montereybayaquarium-anyone-know-what-this

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/11/22/camel-dhula-gazelle-palatal-sac/

Sounds horribly uncomfortable. But I've never been a camel, so who knows?

I don't recommend trying this

"The heavy cost of the dhula" would be a good name for a metal album

"The heavy cost of the dhula" would be a good name for a metal album

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

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160411-spiders-snakes

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Derp, I didn't copy the whole URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160411-spiders-snakes-animals-science-prey-predators/

nice

and then this classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wU-mSfpVUY

Peculiar group of sea creatures found in deep Australian abyss https://t.co/5WtQziRTCO pic.twitter.com/l66QwStKpA

— IBTimes UK (@IBTimesUK) June 17, 2017

That coffinfish looks really disappointed. "PUT ME BACK."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/pyrosome-fire-body-bloom-eastern-pacific-warm-water/

http://www.businessinsider.com/cardinalfish-vomits-glowing-ostracod-2014-9

I wonder what makes BusinessInsider empathise with this little fish...

I have been laughing at that peen fish for a good five minutes.

Fuck. Someone just walked by my computer and saw and I loudly exclaimed, "It's not a penis, it's a fish!"

. . .

great now animals are turning into dildos and swarming on beaches

what do they think they are, politics?

http://bangordailynews.com/2017/06/19/news/midcoast/man-who-caused-brunswick-stink-by-dumping-dead-fish-in-bay-broke-no-law-says-maine-dmr/

stay in the sea you damn ocean beasts

http://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/45585/image.jpg
the hummingbird clearwing moth

GTFO with your photoshop nonsense

you would think, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyLSi11niWU

That's just a photoshop flipbook. (It is very cool)

Seeing it in motion is like woah.

Crazy awesome little pretty monster.

looks like a winged lobster

http://mythatchedhut.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Baltazar-2s.jpg

visit the cave of the bat-eating mexican ceiling snakes... with video!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/kantemo-bat-cave-hanging-serpents-snakes-yucatan-mexico-video/

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.H_QzXZLpoel6-CAExej_uQDyEC%26pid%3D15.1&f=1

that's right, a squid with human teeth