Weird Animals

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

I know a human with squid teeth, so fair's far

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dinosaurs-art-paleoartists-mistakes
http://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/46278/image.jpg

Have spent part of today reading about octopus intelligence, and man they are amazing

Started from here https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker and went on into wonderland

Damn, son. That's fantastic. I now need to read those two books. What a compelling and well-written story. And what a beautiful and tragic creature.

(if you've got more links please, do share!)

Have spent part of today reading about octopus intelligence, and man they are amazing

I've said before, the cephalapods are going to kill us all

This one is older and anthropomorphizes a lot, but it has amusing anecdotes and in the end is moving: https://orionmagazine.org/article/deep-intellect/

i have also been on an octopus kick
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/10/curious-case-octopus-wrestling/

Keffler also noted that, contrary to what you might think, the Giant Pacific octopus, despite being one of the world’s largest octopuses, isn’t actually terribly strong, certainly not enough to squeeze a person in any damaging way, nor are their beaks of any real concern.

>=(

Strong enough to kill a shark.

Must-watch for cephalopd (esp. cuttlefish) fans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-cxg8mF_Lw

has the duck with the gigantic corkscrew penis already been posted

you know what, even if it has

http://i.imgur.com/3qGJmDc.jpg

http://78.media.tumblr.com/939ab021b9a8a93ac6665969848b27ab/tumblr_oxzbhajHDm1vczpxxo1_500.gif

wottice dis

heroic spirit animal in an as-yet-to-be-titled studio ghibli film

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

https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/167246775178/npr-sciencefriday-killer-cone-snail-venom-may

hi dere disturbing microaminals

http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/photo/2017-photomicrography-competition

http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/images/galleries/2017/main/4-SmallWorld2.jpg

http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/images/galleries/2017/main/HM-jumpingspideremrecanalagoz.jpg

http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/images/galleries/2017/main/IoD-WaterFlea.jpg

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

The mouth parts on this one! http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/entry/2017-photomicrography-competition/38

microanimal #1 looks like Brak from Space Ghost

a tape worm, I think?

http://rpsscience.production.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/International-Images-for-Science/international-images-science-2017/gschmeissner_steve_mosquito_foot_aaa88ccca432.jpg

massive magnification of a mosquito's foot

wild

This splendid twitter thread on weird foxes will be worth your time

in the face of insomnia i will attempt to assign letter grades to the weird foxes. please stand by and watch this space for weird fox letter grades,, thank you

— Colin J Carlson (@ColinJCarlson) November 12, 2017

:-)

cubism is alive and well

excellent grading game by colin there

Couldn't see an flying foxes, so that's a demerit.