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