― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link
I know there was another one, but I think it's extinct now.
That's the rhea which I believe is situated in South America. There was a gigantic flightless bird, something like 15 feet tall, but I think it went extinct during the Ice Age or summat.
― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
But the tiny males are just a bag of sperm and yolk and have no mouth or gut. Instead they live inside the female, and survive on the store of yolk inside their own fatty bodies. Some large females have over 100 males living inside them.
― oops (Oops), Sunday, 1 August 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 1 August 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Kick ass!
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.chaparraltree.com/photos/pp-nudibranch-med.jpg
These are nudibranchs.
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 1 August 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
You have seen that Simpsons episode? I've often wondered about that myself.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link
quokkas are kinda weird, like a cross between a rat, a wallaby and a meerkat
― gem (trisk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.abrolhosbat.com.au/images/quokka_small.jpg
― gem (trisk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link
These eels freak me the fark out.
In fact all those weirdy deep-sea creatures do. How do we know they're not aliens or something!?
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.abc.net.au/science/ocean/monsters/img/squid.jpg
― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link
The elusive giant squid is one of the world's largest animals, reaching a length of up to 60 feet. It is the largest known invertebrate in the world. The giant squid is a mollusk and is member of the cephalopod class, which includes the octopus and other squids. Very little is known about these mysterious animals because none have been seen alive in the wild. Most of what we know about them comes from the bodies of dead squid that have washed ashore or been pulled up in fishermen's nets. These animals are carnivores, and will eat just about anything they can catch.
(from http://www.seasky.org/monsters/sea7a1a.html)
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link
bilbies are also kinda strange lookin' critters
― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Monday, 2 August 2004 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
http://divaboo.info/
― max, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, one of the animals on that site is called pink fairy armadillo! Most unintentionally gay animal name ever?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/index.html
That is some freaky shit right there.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
awesome. I mean horrifying. Well all of the good ones are somewhere in between.
How about this little cutie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_isopod.jpg
― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
oops what did I do wrong.
― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
ah right.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Giant_isopod.jpg
when we've killed all of the better-tasting animals in the ocean they're going to wind up selling those things at red lobster.
― DONKEY CANCER in action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf is the point of that fish? What's its evolutionary comparative advantage?
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Its eyes are less vulnerable.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01515/coelacanth_1515621c.jpg
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Monday, 22 February 2010 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Images/5939/goblin_shark_big.jpg
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Monday, 22 February 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.botswanagallery.org/thesis/A/img2/amazon-river-dolphin.jpg
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Monday, 22 February 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Doh, forgot to include the part that mentions that box jellies have no brains and yet are still capable of learning.
― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:33 (six months ago) link
Poor frog!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKEu90Zsh4A
― Iguodalai Lama (Leee), Friday, 3 November 2023 17:12 (five months ago) link
More beetle but stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFbu21AGSho
― Iguodalai Lama (Leee), Friday, 3 November 2023 17:23 (five months ago) link
Admittedly not weird and falls into the charismatic megafauna tap but it's my thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvM89vyn5pE
― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Sunday, 26 November 2023 01:09 (four months ago) link
Usually, a belly-up fish isn’t long for this world. But video evidence from the deep ocean suggests that some species of anglerfish — the nightmarish deep-sea fish with bioluminescent lures — live their whole lives upside down.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/science/upside-down-angler-fish.html
― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Monday, 4 December 2023 22:31 (four months ago) link
Oh, has no one yet posted the absolute nightmare fodder that is the bloodworm aka the befanged extruded anus worm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL2p9i0wwNg
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 December 2023 22:51 (four months ago) link
There is no god.
― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Monday, 4 December 2023 23:01 (four months ago) link
counterpoint: god loves all creatures, even the fanged anus worm
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 4 December 2023 23:04 (four months ago) link
I've bought those for bait before, they're pretty scary
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 4 December 2023 23:23 (four months ago) link
Let's see if those embeds:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ad/17/a6/ad17a67682929e201588a804a40d15e8.jpg
Anyway, those are harpy eagle talons, which apparently can be as large as grizzly claws, and these MFs ~fly~.
https://www.audubon.org/news/10-fun-facts-about-harpy-eagle
― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Thursday, 14 December 2023 21:16 (four months ago) link
at first I thought the anus worms from slightly upthread had claws
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:12 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_epxKOztHH8
1. Some sea slugs can steal (and receive energy from) chloroplasts from algae that they feed on.2. Some of those same sea slugs can also detach their heads from their bodies and eventually regrow a new body.
― Captain Sisko and Ebert (Leee), Friday, 5 January 2024 21:03 (three months ago) link
Have the Spider-tailed horned viper been posted yet?
(caution - bird hunting)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFjoqyVRmOU
― brownie, Thursday, 18 January 2024 17:56 (three months ago) link
Was that featured in an Attenborough doc (Planet Earth maybe)? Mind-boggling that that mimicry behavior happens through natural selection!
― Ella Minnow Pea (Leee), Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:02 (three months ago) link
@undeadpresident4 years agoJust when you thought spiders couldn't get creepier you discover one that turns out to be a snake.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:14 (three months ago) link
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nine-weirdest-penises-animal-kingdom-180976274/
― 龜, Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:42 (two months ago) link
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nine-weirdest-penises-manhattan-180976274
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 28 January 2024 23:57 (two months ago) link
If you can get past the (IMO very gross) surfeit of limbs, these poorly named tadpole shrimps have some very weird reproductive strategies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucm-ds2DA58
― Temple of Selune Gomez (Leee), Saturday, 3 February 2024 05:04 (two months ago) link
surinam toads...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 10:32 (two months ago) link
Wonderful
― willem, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 17:05 (two months ago) link
Caecilians: not just the dick newts of the animal kingdom: their babies eat pays off their mothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc5Yt7tF910
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Saturday, 2 March 2024 03:28 (one month ago) link
*pieces of