17 Million Year Old Pink Slugs Found on Autralian Mountain

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[quote]It would seem to be something you'd see only in a cartoon or at a Phish concert, but according to park rangers in New South Wales, Australia, dozens of giant, fluorescent pink slugs have been popping up on a mountaintop there.

"As bright pink as you can imagine, that's how pink they are," Michael Murphy, a ranger with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "On a good morning, you can walk around and see hundreds of them."

The eight-inch creatures have been spotted only on Mount Kaputar, a 5,000-foot peak in the Nandewar Range in northern New South Wales.

Scientists believe the eye-catching organisms are survivors from an era when Australia was home to rainforests. A series of volcanoes, millions of years of erosion and other geological changes "have carved a dramatic landscape at Mount Kaputar," the park service wrote on its Facebook page, and unique arid conditions spared the slugs from extinction.

They "probably would have long since vanished, if a volcano had not erupted at Mount Kaputar about 17 million years ago," Ben Cubby wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald. "The result of that eruption is a high-altitude haven for invertebrates and plant species that have been isolated for millions of years, after Australia dried out and the rainforests receded."[/quote]

Source: [url]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/giant-flourescent-pink-slugs-140528983.html[/url]

[Zezibesh]

I bet they eat flesh

[Provost]

When I read the title I thought for a moment that it meant the [i]individuals[/i] were 17 million years old.

Oh well, still pretty cool.

[Water-Marine]

Cue Slither references

[Protocol7]

I know the article says 8 inches but the photo makes them look fucking huge

[MuThing]

Why does it have a hole in the side of it? It's freaking me out I'm fucking terrified of slugs/snails.

[Protocol7]

[QUOTE=Yahnich;40855896]8 inches is pretty fucking big for a slug[/QUOTE]

yeah but the photo makes it look like larger than me

[Riller]

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;40855907]Why does it have a hole in the side of it? It's freaking me out I'm fucking terrified of slugs/snails.[/QUOTE]

Vagina/penishole.

[Mio Akiyama]

Look Mr. B, ADAM!

[Provost]

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;40855907]Why does it have a hole in the side of it? It's freaking me out I'm fucking terrified of slugs/snails.[/QUOTE]

Breathing hole probably.

[Midas22]

An ancient evil awakens...

[Buck.]

Looks like a dog cock

[bowedyapper]

[IMG]http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/j405/BowedYapper/slugs_fl_zps0ee17102.jpg[/IMG]

Remaster, calling it.

[PaxMayne]

It's living silly putty.

[gnome]

Ah shit, brainslugs.

[Protocol7]

[QUOTE=Protocol7;40855912]yeah but the photo makes it look like larger than me[/QUOTE]

for the record this is what I envision

[t]http://puu.sh/35lN2/87cce3fc60.jpg[/t]

[Kegan]

I wanna poke at it with a stick

[Ninja Duck]

It has a blowhole.

It's a whale slug.

[Shibbey]

[QUOTE=Yahnich;40855896]8 inches is pretty fucking big for a slug[/QUOTE]

8 inches is pretty big for a lot of things.

[DeEz]

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;40856051]It has a blowhole.

It's a whale slug.[/QUOTE]

maybe it's a bullet wound

oh god

[amos106]

[QUOTE=Yahnich;40855896]8 inches is pretty fucking big for a slug[/QUOTE]

I wish my slug was 8 inches

[robotman5]

That's neat !

[Jorori]

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;40855907]Why does it have a hole in the side of it? It's freaking me out I'm fucking terrified of slugs/snails.[/QUOTE]

That's what they use for breathing air.

[Fine Hats]

[QUOTE=amos106;40856264]I wish my slug was 8 inches[/QUOTE]
I think you need a new nickname for your genitalia.

Unless you're talking about an actual slug, in which case love your pet the way it is or you'll give it a complex.

[bunnyspy1]

I have a feeling if you touched it your skin would burn off or something.
it doesn't look safe.

[Griff]

[QUOTE=Shibbey;40856109]8 inches is pretty big for a lot of things.[/QUOTE]

For comparison
Pliers are the same size as this.

[Senn]

The photo makes it looks fucking immense

[void~]

probably poisonous as fuck

[Last or First]

That's really more of an amaranth or carmine than pink. Possibly a dark fuschia. Jeez, doesn't anyone know basic colors?

[QUOTE=Protocol7;40856032]for the record this is what I envision

[t]http://puu.sh/35lN2/87cce3fc60.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Well, even if one was that big and did manage to get that close to you, you'd really only have to take a few quick large steps before walking away casually in order to escape it. It [I]is[/I] a slug, after all.

[Griff]

Or you could just throw salt on it.