[QUOTE=Imalegend;15505204]Yo TH89, whats the name of that. The picture alone is enough to get it in the thread![/QUOTE]
It's like, 4 posts up, really?
bumping this awesome and dirty thread
Coo, stuff!
You should do the Immortal Jellyfish.
Turritopsis nutricula is the immortal jellyfish.
[img]http://www.iheartchaos.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/immortal-jellyfish.jpg[/img]
And oh man Frogmouths are awesome birds.
[img]http://www.wiresnr.org/images/albinoFrogmouth013sm.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=TH89;15503280]Awww
[img]http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/images/tawny_frogmouth_chick_barbelith_Morgana.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
That thing looks badass.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;15525213]You should do the Immortal Jellyfish.[/QUOTE]
Yes!
[QUOTE=SolidusBlack;15493493]look at the midget![/QUOTE]
Man, I love little people. They look awesome and don't take any shit
[QUOTE=OpethRockr55;15493777]
This thread needs more pangolin:
[IMG]http://www.vulkaner.no/n/africa/somalia/pangolin.jpg[/IMG]
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My God that is amazing. I'm being totally serious when I ask if that's what they based the Pokemon "Sandslash" off of. It always looked so damn cool, and that thing looks almost just like it.
Does anyone know? I'm gonna go check wikipedia.
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Though this is a normal animal, it was on the far right end of the bell curve!
Hogzilla (a wild boar a boy and his dad hunted down in Alabama) I believe it took the boy 6 shots from a Revolver, and the father and hunting guide were ready with high powered rifles in case he didn't take him down.
Pic:
[img]http://blogs.sdf.unige.it/wordpressMU121/s2904850/files/2008/01/hogzilla.jpg[/img]
Story:
[url]http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hogzilla.asp[/url]
Actually, there have been 2 giant boars, the first one was hunted by Chris Griffin (LOL) somewhere in Georgia, the other was the boy (down at the bottom of the page) and his father in Alabama. This sucks, I live right in between both of those states, Florida! I hope they don't come round these parts any time soon.
[QUOTE=TH89;15503141]
[img]http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumb_26/112993344351f05b.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Needs a caption saying
"Sup bro"
[QUOTE=Squidbot1;15491628]The pistol shrimp. This thing is fucking awesome.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_shrimp[/url]
Quote from Wikipedia:
"The snap can also produce sonoluminescence from the collapsing cavitation bubble. As it collapses, the cavitation bubble reaches temperatures of over 5,000 K (5,273.15 degree Celsius).[10] A quick comparison: the surface temperature of the sun is estimated to be around 5,778 K. The light is of lower intensity than the light produced by typical sonoluminescence and is not visible to the naked eye. It is most likely a by-product of the shock wave with no biological significance. However, it was the first known instance of an animal producing light by this effect. It has subsequently been discovered that another group of crustaceans, the mantis shrimp, contains species whose club-like forelimbs can strike so quickly and with such force as to induce sonoluminescent cavitation bubbles upon impact."[/QUOTE]
I use to own a pistol shrimp. their pretty badass.
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Heres a copypasta from a thread i made on Monsterfishkeepers.com
[B]Pacific Barreleye[/B]
[img]http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9866/09022301fishtransparentr.jpg[/img]
February 23, 2009--With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes—topped by green, orblike structures—in a picture released today but taken in 2004.
The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact.
The 6-inch (15-centimeter) barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) had been known since 1939—but only from mangled specimens dragged to the surface by nets.
The beady bits on the front of the Pacific barreleye fish in this picture released February 23, 2009, aren't eyes but smell organs.
ince the eyes are upright tubes, "it just looked like [they only] looked straight up," MBARI marine technician Kim Reisenbichler said. But by watching live fish from a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and by bringing a barrelfish to an aquarium for study, the scientists discovered that the eyes can pivot, like a birdwatcher pointing binoculars.
The barreleye lives more than 2,000 feet (600 meters) beneath the ocean's surface, where the water is almost inky.
Source: [url]http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...re/photo4.html[/url]
That thing is crazy, I've always wondered what weird things lived deep down in the ocean.
Mods- if this is not the right section, please move.
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[QUOTE=Slippers;15491672]No way, that's wikipedia vandalism. The energy required to generate temperatures of 5,000K would be fucking insane.[/QUOTE]
It is very true my friend, it was fun watching it try to shoot down my fish.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC6I8iPiHT8[/media]
Their quite loud I might add.
The cavitation bubble collapses at such speed that the pressure traveling through the water pretty much stuns/kills small lifeforms.
[QUOTE=TH89;15503280]Awww
[img]http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/images/tawny_frogmouth_chick_barbelith_Morgana.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Tawny Frogmouth, that is. They look like owls, but they're not. They're so cute, dawww... We get'm out the back all the time. Then and blue tongue lizards...
Guys don't forget the Tarsier!
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsiers[/url]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/Imagehosting/pics/28ac1db742b7effb3d4683a9ea80d30b.jpg[/img]
[quote=Wikipedia] Tarsiers are small animals with enormous eyes; each eyeball is approximately 16 mm in diameter and is as large as their entire brain.[/quote]
Yaaaaaaay your back.
[B]Pink Dragon Millipede[/B], recently discovered in east Africa.
[img]http://zaxy.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/millipede.jpg?w=239&h=300[/img]
Able to shoot cyanide, it's bright, pink colour warns predators of it's toxicity.
[QUOTE=BuDSpOoNce;15534467][B]Pink Dragon Millipede[/B], recently discovered in east Africa.
[img]http://zaxy.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/millipede.jpg?w=239&h=300[/img]
Able to shoot cyanide, it's bright, pink colour warns predators of it's toxicity.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit that's badass.
[QUOTE=tactical102;15531582]Guys don't forget the Tarsier!
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsiers[/url]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/Imagehosting/pics/28ac1db742b7effb3d4683a9ea80d30b.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
"E.T phone home..."
[QUOTE=tactical102;15531582]Guys don't forget the Tarsier!
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsiers[/url]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/Imagehosting/pics/28ac1db742b7effb3d4683a9ea80d30b.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuQM7gIj9po[/media]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_shrew[/url]
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZMAZvsSgVY[/url] [/media]
Elephant shrews or jumping shrews are small insectivorous mammals native to Africa, belonging to the Macroscelididae family, in the order Macroscelidea. Their traditional common English name comes from a fancied resemblance between their long noses and the trunk of an elephant, and an assumed relationship with the true shrews (family Soricidae) in the order Insectivora. As it has become plain that the elephant shrews are unrelated to the shrews, the biologist Jonathan Kingdon has proposed that they instead be called sengis, a term derived from the Bantu languages of Africa.
They are widely distributed across the southern part of Africa, and although common nowhere, can be found in almost any type of habitat, from the Namib Desert to boulder-strewn outcrops in South Africa to thick forest. One species, the North African Elephant Shrew, remains in the semi-arid, mountainous country in the far north-west of the continent.
[QUOTE=NotsuoHtoN;15573396][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuQM7gIj9po[/media][/QUOTE]
AHAHHAHAHAHA
That made me LOL so hard.
Every time.
Added the Tawny Frogmouth.
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Also, adding content from other thread, gonna look weird for a while.
Thanks guys, another Facepunch thread insuring me another great night of sleep!
All done, I think. Added all the creatures and plants from my other thread. Images and videos should be working.
Bump for Blobfish Request :dance:
I vote for the millipede that spits cyanide :bandwagon:
Goblin Shark. This thing make me shit myself when I saw it bite. Just watch the video.
[url]http://science.discovery.com/videos/quest-for-the-goblin-shark-deep-bite.html[/url]
A photo to attract attention.
[img]http://www.supiri.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/wwwsupiricom_sea-creatures-goblin-shark.jpg[/img]
Oh man. Wow. Those worms coming out that kid's ass, just... wow. How can so many worms be in there. That's so fucked up.
[QUOTE=tactical102;15531582]Guys don't forget the Tarsier!
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsiers[/url]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/Imagehosting/pics/28ac1db742b7effb3d4683a9ea80d30b.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I've held one of those. Funny little creatures.
I climb onto my finger hung on tight and looked at me. So darn cute.
[img]http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/5185/800pxtawnyfrogmouthcove.jpg[/img]
That pic made me lol
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