vagina dentata v. phallus dentatum
― dayo, Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/2012/01/05/why-is-the-new-deep-sea-antarctic-octopus-so-pale/
― tracy mcgr8080 (dayo), Thursday, 5 January 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
it's great to be back, leee!
(belated lol looks like we both read Ed Yong's blog).
<a href=https://plus.google.com/photos/108851026326071355993/albums/5694712457955114465/5694712462177328802>Okinawan Ribbon Eel</a>.
― lEEE (Leee), Saturday, 28 January 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
D'oh.
And now for the fish that lives in a sea cucumber's butt:
Not content with simply living in unmentionables, the pearlfish has evolved its own anus to become as close as possible to its head. It may seem rather silly to have all that goings on near to where you dine, but it means that the pearl fish only has to poke the front half of his body out of the sea cucumbers bits to get rid of his business. Of course it must have taken some time for this unwanted house guest to evolve a bum hole up to where his tie should be, which can only mean one thing. The pearl fish has been living in sea cucumbers bottoms for quite a while, which can’t be any comfort to the sea cucumber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw2DrbhOA-M&t=05m55s
― lEEE (Leee), Saturday, 28 January 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw2DrbhOA-M
'It's a bit like finding a foot-long cockroach.'
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/58229000/jpg/_58229764_p1010514.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 February 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
giant isopod earlier, bigger, scarier
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Giant_isopod.jpg/220px-Giant_isopod.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg/220px-Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg
― ledge, Thursday, 2 February 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
Not an animal, but still weird (and cool):
Aspens are a good example of how sex can help an organism that usually clones itself to survive. Going by the name Pando (Latin for "I spread"), one particular colony of male aspen trees in Utah is not only the largest organism on earth (weighing in at over 6,000 tons), it is also the oldest, estimated to be 80,000 years old. The organism is actually an entire forest of an estimated 47,000 trees that are all genetically identical, and that are all feeding off a shared root system that covers over 10 acres. The whole thing grew from clones arising from a single tree.
― omar leeettle (Leee), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://io9.com/5885204/worlds-tiniest-chameleon-is-the-size-of-matchs-head
http://i.imgur.com/CTFaz.jpg
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Monday, 20 February 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
Again, not animalia, but there was a fine article on Toxoplasma gondii in the Atlantic this month:
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
The subjects who tested positive for the parasite had significantly delayed reaction times. Flegr was especially surprised to learn, though, that the protozoan appeared to cause many sex-specific changes in personality. Compared with uninfected men, males who had the parasite were more introverted, suspicious, oblivious to other people’s opinions of them, and inclined to disregard rules. Infected women, on the other hand, presented in exactly the opposite way: they were more outgoing, trusting, image-conscious, and rule-abiding than uninfected women....Meanwhile, two Turkish studies have replicated his studies linking Toxoplasma to traffic accidents. With up to one-third of the world infected with the parasite, Flegr now calculates that T. gondii is a likely factor in several hundred thousand road deaths each year. I...Twelve of 44 schizophrenia patients who underwent MRI scans, the team found, had reduced gray matter in the brain—and the decrease occurred almost exclusively in those who tested positive for T. gondii.
...
Meanwhile, two Turkish studies have replicated his studies linking Toxoplasma to traffic accidents. With up to one-third of the world infected with the parasite, Flegr now calculates that T. gondii is a likely factor in several hundred thousand road deaths each year. I
Twelve of 44 schizophrenia patients who underwent MRI scans, the team found, had reduced gray matter in the brain—and the decrease occurred almost exclusively in those who tested positive for T. gondii.
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Monday, 20 February 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
Not weird so much as OMGFGGFG:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/31/article-1165930-03FD1AB7000005DC-269_468x329.jpg
― Pot Leeedom (Leee), Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
Glass frog:
http://images.mudfooted.com/glass_frog.jpg
More here: http://mudfooted.com/transparent-glass-frog/
Exquisitely beautiful, really.
― Nothing cracks a turtle like Leeeon Uris (Leee), Sunday, 29 July 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
no dissection needed
― smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Sunday, 29 July 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
And because I want to push that awful worm into the fold, here's another one, i.e., the mantis shrimp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sEoOWdYLWIo
Make sure to watch till the very end!
― Nothing cracks a turtle like Leeeon Uris (Leee), Sunday, 29 July 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rJcg_BSOaQU/UB1D8jAGAMI/AAAAAAAABkE/7zCdjtiDMX8/s1600/kaarmeetujh020812_503_hu.jpg
― Nothing cracks a turtle like Leeeon Uris (Leee), Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
(Click image, if you dare, to see what the f that is.)
― Nothing cracks a turtle like Leeeon Uris (Leee), Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
The mite has no anus, and stores its waste in large cells within its gut. Nutting saw these as adaptations for a life spent head-down in a tightly closed space. When the mite dies, its body disintegrates and the waste is released.
http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/31/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-the-mites-that-eat-crawl-and-have-sex-on-your-face/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NotRocketScience+%28Not+Exactly+Rocket+Science%29
― R=J-L (Leee), Friday, 31 August 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
SUP
http://i.imgur.com/N0Eoe.jpg
― barthes simpson, Monday, 24 September 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
Nudibranch that eats ... crown of thorn starfish or manowar jellies! In addition to being BEAUTIFUL.
― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/spd42.jpg
http://www.nature.com/news/african-spiny-mice-can-regrow-lost-skin-1.11488
― barthes simpson, Friday, 28 September 2012 12:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://shanghaiist.com/2012/10/12/this_ugly_but_amazing_chinese_turtl.php
― 乒乓, Friday, 12 October 2012 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
my christ, four headed alien autonomous penis horror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKZcf0KBo-U#!
― itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
It looks like it's pooping out ET. Oo
Moar penis horror:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/files/2012/10/Seed-beetle-penis.jpg
― Leeezzarina Sbarro (Leee), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
Better ("better") pic:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/files/2012/10/Seed-beetle-penis2.jpg
Instead, Hotzy and Arnqvist found that the spines puncture or erode the female’s genital tract, allowing sperm to seep into her bloodstream. The duo labelled the sperm of their males with a mildly radioactive chemical so they could track its whereabouts in the female. They found that around 40 percent of the sperm ends up outside the female’s reproductive tract, in other parts of her body. And the longer the penis spines, the greater the leakage.
Why does that help? The sperm obviously aren’t going to be fertilising any eggs in the female’s bloodstream. But seminal fluid contains more than sperm – it’s also a cocktail of other behaviour-bending chemicals. Some make the female more receptive to mating; others seem to induce egg-laying. For the seed beetle, as with many other insects, ejaculation is an act of manipulation as well as fertilisation.
― Leeezzarina Sbarro (Leee), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
Discus fish parents secrete a highly nutritious mucus all over their bodies that the young feed on until old enough to feed themselves.
― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
Taking liberties here, but:
Rather than the fully-formed, free-living cells we know today, the last common ancestor of all living things (known as LUCA) was a hollow piece of rock.
― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Saturday, 5 January 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/0e954b0469c281a9a09eb1378daada3e/tumblr_mh0cpm19zR1s3yrubo1_1280.jpg
Wolffish, derrr.
― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Saturday, 26 January 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/2f4d4957e3ee785be0350ccee8bc5e6f/tumblr_mhfynesy4J1s3yrubo1_500.jpg
― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Friday, 1 February 2013 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
^^Red-lipped batfish, btw.
― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Friday, 1 February 2013 06:57 (eleven years ago) link
Just found this thread to post http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/ - looks like Leee already got there!
http://25.media.tumblr.com/fcf782ba878b03c484d9bd8395707bb8/tumblr_mhurkyOYo71s3yrubo1_1280.jpg
― brogue element (seandalai), Friday, 8 February 2013 12:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/files/2013/02/Nudibranch.jpg
Nudibranch:
Ayami Sekizawa from Osaka City University watched the mating slugs, she noticed something odd. After they finished mating, they would crawl away with their penises still extruded from their bodies. Twenty minutes later, these trailing genitals broke off completely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIUk08iYZKE
― Ultramega OK Cupid (Leee), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
Leaf-nosed snake:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N-smWGi7SUA/UPc6YA5L7GI/AAAAAAAAMqI/VxweN-_7JEE/s320/Langaha_nasuta_female_DB.jpg
― Ultramega OK Cupid (Leee), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ED_exG3qLk&feature=player_embedded
― Ultramega OK Cupid (Leee), Friday, 15 February 2013 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBkWhkAZ9ds
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
Omfg!
― Margaret Vegemite Sanger (Leee), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:58 (eleven years ago) link
Hyenas: more closely related to cats than dogs!
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1575
― R = J - L (Leee), Monday, 15 April 2013 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
once in college, standing around in the quad, i was talking with a girl from europe and she saw something out of the corner of her eye and gasped, "What kind of animal is that!" it was a squirrel, but she had looked at it backwards, believing the tail was the head and neck, and so thought it was some kind of exotic american animal she had never seen before.
― Pat Finn, Monday, 15 April 2013 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/2013/04/19/unusual-offshore-octopods-does-the-worlds-largest-octopus-only-have-seven-arms-video/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw8zl5vrAu8
― 乒乓, Sunday, 21 April 2013 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
― 乒乓, Sunday, 21 April 2013 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
Combining weirdness with cephalopods, <3
― R = J - L (Leee), Sunday, 21 April 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kR3PVOC.jpg
― 乒乓, Friday, 26 April 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/05/endangered-frogs-of-ecuador-photographed-by-peter-lipton/
http://i.imgur.com/z76zx7B.jpg
― 乒乓, Sunday, 5 May 2013 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/science/blaschka-glass-menagerie-inspires-marine-expedition.html?_r=0
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:03 (eleven years ago) link
Wish that the blobfrog url did not include the word "endangered." :(
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
I've caught these before. They bark!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRluB6eyN3c
― beach situations (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 9 May 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
Couple more keepers in the gallery, but this mite deserves special recognition:
Microscope studies showed that, inside each impregnated female, her own eggs hatch a brood consisting of some half-dozen sisters and a single male. As the brood develops, the lone male copulates with his sisters; by this time, mom has died. By the time the sisters are old enough to chew through her body and reproduce anew, the male's job is done, and he dies soon afterwards. Sometimes he never even crawls outside, spending the entirety of life inside mom.
― Ou sont les Sonneywolferines d'antan? (Leee), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link
i know a guy like that.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 04:02 (ten years ago) link