Nature's Weirdest Creatures
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
No shit there!
Pun intended.
"Ma, look, I just shat out a pearl ... fish"
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Oh, mother of pearls
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here's something.. it's some kind of weird jellyfish which resembles an undulating gelatinous WTF-is-that?
the scientific name is the Deepstaria Enigmatica
here's the clip of the thing moving about caught with a ROV camera => weird jellyfish
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let me just put this link up...
=> 7 most terrifying mouths in nature
if you want to find me, i'll be far far FAR away from the water shooting the bastard woodpeckers and penguins with an auto-shotgun
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do this homo sapien qualify
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Hi there~ meet Barry~
Aquarium staff have unearthed a 'giant sea' worm that was attacking coral reef and prize fish.
The 4ft long monster, named Barry, had launched a sustained attack on the reef in a display tank at Newquay's Blue Reef Aquarium over recent months.
Workers at the Cornwall-based attraction had been left scratching their heads as to why the coral had been left devastated and - in some cases - cut in half.
Discovered: 'Barry' the sea worm had been nestling under coral reef, attacking it and fish, at Newquay's Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall
After staking out the display for several weeks, the last resort was to completely dismantle it, rock by rock.
Halfway through the process the predator was revealed as a four-foot polychaete worm.
Staff eventually lured it out with fish scraps, but not before it bit through 20lb fishing line.
Don't mess: The tropical tropical worm is covered in thousands of bristles which are capable of inflicting a sting resulting in permanent numbness
The tropical worm is capable of inflicting permanent numbness on humans with its sting.
Matt Slater, the aquarium's curator, said: 'Something was guzzling our reef but we had no idea what, we also found an injured Tang Fish so we laid traps but they got ripped apart in the night.
'That worm must have obliterated the traps. The bait was full of hooks which he must have just digested.'
He added: 'It really does look like something out of a horror movie. It's over four feet long with these bizarre-looking jaws.
'We also discovered that he is covered with thousands of bristles which are capable of inflicting a sting resulting in permanent numbness.'
Mr Slater said Barry, who has now been relocated to his own tank, probably arrived as a juvenile in a delivery of living rock from another aquarium.
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this guy modified his face with tatoo and operation to be a weird one
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back to real creatures....
here's the Priapiumfish named after Priapus, the ancient Greek God of Fertility..
it's a small little fish found in the Mekong..
what makes it weird is.. its genitals and gonads are on its head!
=> Zoologger on the Priapiumfish
you can call it by its other name.. the dickhead fish
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baby aardvark
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DAMN!!
These are really interesting!!
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Posted this on FB but here it goes here:
Scientists discover new species of 'blind snake' in Brazilian river that looks remarkably like a piece of the human anatomy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...=feeds-newsxml
Forgive us if this puts you off your dinner because, as snakes go, this is not much of a charmer.
The unique creature, atretochoana eiselti, was found after engineers drained a hydroelectric dam which spans a river connected to the Amazon.
Biologists discovered six of the unusual-looking creatures - each about a metre long - at the bottom of the river-bed on the Madeira river in Rondonia, in Brazil.
The creatures were discovered in November, however it took until today for scientists to correctly classify the snake's genus - confirming it is a rare creature which has only been spotted sporadically since first spotted in 1968.
t is actually more closely related to salamanders and frogs, but appearance-wise looks more like a snake.
Biologist Julian Tupan, who works for Santo Antonio Energy - the company which constructed the dam - said: 'Of the six we collected, one died, three were released back into the wild and another two were kept for studies.
'Despite looking like snakes, they aren’t reptiles and are more closely related to salamanders and frogs.
Mr Tupan added: 'We think the animal breathes through its skin, and probably feeds on small fish and worms, but there is still nothing proven.
'The Amazon is a box of surprises when it comes to reptiles and amphibians. There are still much more to be discovered'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz22NK6l15l