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 (five 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 (three months ago) link
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nine-weirdest-penises-manhattan-180976274
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 28 January 2024 23:57 (three 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