The 100 Most Fascinatingly Disgusting Members Of The Animal Kindom

you can eat the toenails like unpopped corn kernels

Not really making them sound any more appetizing buddy.

:) it was no worse than eating say, a roast chicken

http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f181/44221d1239579277-tongue-eating-isopod-tongue-replacement-isopod-1.jpg

I think I am not so much freaked out by the isopod as: why the hell does this fish have human teeth???

posted this the other day in a spider thread, but i'm just gonna go ahead and post it again

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

prying it off with a stick like that had to have been as satisfying, if not more satisfying, than lighting the whole thing on fire

hahahaha I was going to post the fish with human teeth but I thought that was only something I was freaked out by

it's just not right

http://wakkanew.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/teeth-fish2.jpg

oops x-post

coelancanths are awesome tho! They are so ancient and huge and also if you catch them in Animal Crossing they are worth tons of bells <3

I am surprised at the revulsion for the coconut crab - it seems to be pretty firmly planted on the good side of the arthropod divide

I have eaten more guinea pigs than I can remember now after seven months in Peru. Better than rabbit, not as good as chicken. lots of dark meat and little bones.

coconut crabs: i like them i just shudder to think about how if given the opportunity they would surely open up a baby's skull and casually help themselves to the brains

I was going to post this eye-leech, but it sounds like the loa loa worm has it beat.

tbf it wouldn't actually help itself to the brains after opening up the baby's skull, it would call its buddy first

http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/hugecrab01.jpg

then they would divvy up and share.

17. camels. camels are hella nasty imo and whats more they are fukken ruminants

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4702/419729774lljwdpfs.jpg

Also, deep sea monsters rule this thread:

Angler fish:
<img src=http://scribalterror.blogs.com/scribal_terror/images/2007/06/17/angler_fish.jpg>;

Viperfish

Gulper Eel

Dragon fish

Vampire Squid

xpost lololol

What is the fish that looks a lot like the viperfish but has giant, almost opaque eyeballs that are a solid milky white? And kind of a more elongated head? I had a picture book as a kid with a giant full page photo of two of their faces and it was the "scare yourself by turning to it" page for sure.

deep sea angler?

http://www.sumedh.info/pictures/deep-sea/hairy-angler.png

This should totally result in a poll.

Mating leopard slug

Actually kind of beautiful, but lots of people hate slugs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSW9kWIRCOQ&feature=player_embedded

Cause I mean, mucus, you know?

yep, we know

goblin shark

or as I like to call it, the gobblin' shark

http://dearjesus.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/goblin-shark.jpg

Maybe a different angle of the viperfish?

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Images/4180/viper%20fish%2003_big.jpg

Matamata turtle is no looker either.

I think the toad with the holes is stealing this for me so far tbh.

that fish w/ the big dome instead of/in addition to eyes

xp yeah the 'there are holes in its flesh' thing is bringing up big primordial DNW repulsions in me, kinda like that lotus tit shop that was a good shock img a couple of years ago

Dayo then you may very well also be trypophobic! LOL if you GIS trypophobia that frog is one the first things that comes up. IT'S SO FUCKING AWFUL. Lotus breast image is one of the most revolting things ever imo.

xp - you mean the one with the see through head?

lol "the hole truth"

"common examples of trypophobia inducing items include lotus seed pods, lamprey eels, skin grafts and surinam toads"

see through head fish is cute, you can see what it's thinking, and it's thinking "I'm a cute motherfucker aren't I"

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/images/primary/090223-01-fish-transparent-head-barreleye-pictures_big.jpg

OMG I need to stop GISing this. I am itching all over now.

YES that is the fish I meant. I like him too.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/05/17/a-scientist-finds-out-that-discussion-of-bat-fellatio-is-nsfw/

okay I'm fine with holes but not holes in ppl's skin, you're right I need to stop GISing before my phobia extends to all things with holes like THE SPEAKER GRILL ON MY MACBOOK PRO AAAAAGH *burns macbook*

star nosed mole, meet rufous horseshoe bat

http://www.calacademy.org/blogs/jdumbacher/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/rhinolophus.jpg

Yeah - I basically don't like clustered patterns of holes found in fuman/animal flesh. I also HATE lotus seed pods. Weird, I know but they just revolt me.

Other holes are fine though.

star nose mole way worse than bat but the bat is pretty bad too imo

http://www.geekologie.com/2007/01/25/rare-shark.jpg

oh hi

madagascar hissing cockroach GIVES BIRTH

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LbccUVbSRd8/S6y5YaVqNmI/AAAAAAAAGYM/i9ms6opawAE/s1600/madagascar+hissing+cockroach+birth+1.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SWlutinFxHI/AAAAAAAAKnk/t2Gm2HFCMOU/s400/Lamprey+Eel+Mouth.jpg

^^^ already on here @ #4 but deserves reiterating: lamprey eels will fuck you up

also i saw someone mention loa loa & filarial worms are FUCKED UP (google @ yr own risk) but ill rep for roundworms specifically Ascaris lumbricoides:

http://www.thaimedicalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/round-worms.jpg

Ascaris lumbricoides is the giant roundworm of human, belonging to the phylum Nematoda. It is an ascarid nematode responsible for the disease ascariasis in human. It is the largest and most common parasitic worm in humans. A quarter of human population is estimated to be infected by this parasite. Ascariasis is prevalent worldwide and more so in tropical and subtropical countries.

It can reach a length of up to 35 cm

http://www.essiactea.getqanda.com/1-Ascaris%20lumbricoides%20worms.jpg

IN UR BODY EATING UR INNARDS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOaZCkA8Zvk

PARASITES ARE THE MOST DISGUSTING CREATURES ITS A KNOWN FACT

Yeah - I basically don't like clustered patterns of holes found in fuman/animal flesh. I also HATE lotus seed pods. Weird, I know but they just revolt me.

I am the same way, esp about the lotus seed pods, and I didn't even know it was a thing! Every once in a while i have a really awful dream along these lines the specifics of which I will not divulge here, and even thinking about it makes me kind of queasy and disturbed feeling.

Also, I snortOLed at "spidermerkin.jpg."

I didn't know it was a thing either until a friend told me about how she felt that way and I realized that I wasn't alone! Even just getting a quick glance at some of the images when I googled it for quoting purposes earlier had me nearly crawling out of my skin. *shudder*

uh okay this video of surinam toad giving birth

hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCayq56wHSA

kill it with fire

I tried to do a drawing of my memory of scary fish...he seemed more see-through than this, though.

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/6972/mysteryscaryfish.jpg

dunno, still reminds me of an anglerfish...

this is a white's tree frog

http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/scienceray/2008/07/01/201653_28.jpg

he has no bones

re: candiru

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2288/can-the-candir-fish-swim-upstream-into-your-urethra-revisited

ok uh

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7235205.stm

The team recorded footage of a female worm-like amphibian, called a caecilian, allowing her young to peel off and eat her skin.

Scientists have only recently discovered this bizarre parental behaviour.

The female caecilian's skin becomes thicker and more nutrient-rich when she bears offspring.

And the young have specialised teeth for tearing and removing it.

man nature is so fukken gnarly