The 100 Most Fascinatingly Disgusting Members Of The Animal Kindom

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/03/danionella_dracula/danionella.jpeg

okay dracula minnow get out of my head

Dracula minnow doesn't look too bad when it's a regualr photo:

http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/7-dracula-fish.jpg

I always thought that the termite queen was puke-inducing.

Then you'll like this info even more: The African ones are supposed to be really tasty when baked. (If you don't have any moral qualms about destroying a nest that's prolly been around for 30-40 years, that is. )

Sloths feel left out, start eating human poop

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8659000/8659239.stm

Rhinoceros beetles are also one of the strongest animals on the planet in relation to their own size. They can also survive Nuclear warfare.

<img src=http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47770000/jpg/_47770279_sloth01comp.jpg>;

I haven't read the article yet, but I love this picture.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47770000/jpg/_47770279_sloth01comp.jpg

It's like he's just chilling!

The researchers suspect many individual sloths visited the latrines: on one occasion a mother and baby visited.

in a weird way, this is adorable.

So I happened upon this little thing about angler fish and thought of this thread:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/angler

And here's the pic Leeee posted upthread again, because it had an extra character in and didn't load on-thread for me:
http://scribalterror.blogs.com/scribal_terror/images/2007/06/17/angler_fish.jpg

oh my days @ the bear grylls eating the larvae video and that fucking toad is o_O

bear grylls thing is horrific, just horrific. caught me unawares watching the show for the first time, widescreen, up close. i nearly fucking died of disgust.

went to an aviary today and saw this plant and immediately was like DNW

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/P6065804.jpg

I just took another look at the surinam toad and my back feels like it's full of holes ugghhhhh

in that youtube clip above, i'm not sure which is supposed to be the "world's most disgusting animal," the rhino beetle or the guy who ate it raw.

Surinam toad is way the worst, reminds me of Gulliver's Travels and that description of the Brobdingnagian woman's breast tumour.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/righteouskate/Ptychozoon-little-flying-dragons_Ju.jpg

OMFG!!@#$%!!`11 In your hair! But amazing!

oh man i love flying/gliding animals

http://www.treehugger.com/tongue-parasite-in-fish.jpg

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04etta/background/isopods/media/parasitic_isopod_600.jpg

the first pic is kind cute, look at how it's snuggled in there like it's in bed. better than luke in the tauntaun tbh

I'm just a little isopod, tryna keep warm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QIgW639Oog

Not sure if this was posted here yet, but ew.

that would be a great candidate for the 'guile theme goes with everything' meme, right when he pulls out of his old shell

thinking of Ziggy Stardust actually

D-:

why why why.

I have to lodge my vote for the humble possum. Not as disgusting as others on this thread but, ugh god i hate these things so so much.

I totally feel this post. These are nasty, horrible things only made worse by the fact that if you catch them running across a sidewalk, you might well mistake them for a kitty cat. (Though if you get rabies, you're still kind of a moron -- you shouldn't be approaching feral kitty cats, either.)

The opossum is the one animal that I was familiar with in the south that I was surprised to see in the north. There's no armadillos up here, no marauding raccoons, certainly no deer. But there's still opossums.

Chicago is home to marauding raccoons. Ask Jesse.

upon further reflection, I have decided that the naked mole rat bears a striking resemblance to the Vietnamese summer roll

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Nacktmull.jpg

http://www.bookofyum.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/springroll1.jpg

OTMFM

Such a comparison casts a suspicious light on that little puddle of dipping sauce...

That swiss cheese carrier toad thing still gives me the cereaming abdabs, especially as it looks like it's made from that disgusting green foam that florists use.

*screaming abdabs (tm)

Perhaps you are trypophobic.

Where skin is involved, hell yeah

naked mole rats are awesome - they can chew through just about anything!

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

hahah omg /dies

Pretty sure I'm gonna have nightmares about a girl with a spider merkin now. Thanks.

lol @ harbl and the isopod <3

fukken surinam toad

Male water strider is morally disgusting.

the worst part of that article:

In other insects, where females have evolved an upper hand in the war of the sexes, males have developed even more extreme counter-strategies. Look no further than the common bedbug – the male bypasses the female’s genitals altogether and stabs his sharp penis straight into the female’s back, a technique known appropriately as traumatic insemination.

cf isabella rosselini's 'seduce me'

blech. Oh my AYE AYES.
http://www.treehugger.com/aye-aye-small.jpg

I love aye ayes!!! They are SO WEIRD.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/11/8/1289230487176/4th-annual-DEEP-Indonesia-009.jpg

Moray eel.

http://brvilledude.blogspot.com/2010/07/parasite-then-replaces-fishs-tongue-by.html
The parasite then replaces the fish’s tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CD0JETuihEE/SqZT5ykSP_I/AAAAAAAAEzc/v0bEyArz87s/s1600/alienreal.jpg

scroll up dude

oops... now w/ text

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