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