Weird Creatures of Earth Thread

[MiamiHeat]

Hatchetfish :
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2237/hatchetfisheh0.jpg
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4677/hatchetfishwebkleinfm5.jpg
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1396/rtyerwythfgrl0.jpg

Alligator Gars :

http://www.magikglasses.com/cannibol/abodream/etcimages/gar.jpg

http://www.iobis.org/images_new/ILAlligatorGar.jpg


American paddliefish :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Paddlefish.jpg

Bigfin Squid :
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/14/LongArmSquid.jpg/240px-LongArmSquid.jpg


Whale Sharks :
http://www.arkive.org/media/F121C21F-3EAE-4078-B188-096F830F8515/Presentation.Large/large-Whale-shark-feeding.jpg


Angler fish from Finding Nemo movie :
http://gfc.easytel.com/yandian/images/geography/quarter4/29_angler_fish.jpg


Long-Nosed Chimeara:
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/908/38630rl9.jpg


Goblin Shark :
http://flann4.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/goblin-shark.jpg

Blob Fish :

http://oceans.greenpeace.org/raw/image_full/en/photo-audio-video/photos/blobfish.jpg


Giant Isopods

http://zoomcritic.com/images/weird_fish/1.jpg
http://www.quartzcity.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/giant-isopod.jpg

[MiamiHeat]

Coconut crabs :

http://www.kottke.org/plus/misc/images/coconut-crab.jpg
http://entertheoctopus.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/coconut-crab-3.jpg

and then the lamprey...

http://www.english-nature.org.uk/lifeinukrivers/species/species_images/lamprey8.jpg

Fangtooth :
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/1928/fangtoothvy5.jpg

Oarfish :

http://hk.geocities.com/iou_annie/109.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Mekongnaga.jpg

[ManuTP9]

damn look at the blob fish, looks like my uncles nose

[smeagol]

Coconut crabs :

http://www.kottke.org/plus/misc/images/coconut-crab.jpg


Is that a huge crab or a really small bin?

[JudynTX]

:wow:wow Those are some scary looking creatures.

[Taco]

Hatchetfish :
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2237/hatchetfisheh0.jpg


The Hatchetfish looks like Dennis Rodman

Blob Fish :

http://oceans.greenpeace.org/raw/image_full/en/photo-audio-video/photos/blobfish.jpg








damn look at the blob fish, looks like my uncles nose
:lol

[Blake]

I think this thread helps proves the existence of God.

Thank you for posting this Miami, and helping to share the wonders of God's creations.

[phyzik]

Lump Fish
http://www.bountyfishing.com/blog/images/lumpfish.jpg

Ajolote
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/gallery/albums/userpics/22445/normal_ajolote.jpg

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Frill Shark
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[tlongII]

It's easy to see what mouse evolved from...

http://oceans.greenpeace.org/raw/image_full/en/photo-audio-video/photos/blobfish.jpg

[tlongII]

My favorite animal...

http://earth.jnfr.com/learn/platypus-ausEPA3.jpg

[phyzik]

Is that a huge crab or a really small bin?

Its really that big. Coconut Crabs can grow up to 16 inches in body length with a wingspan of up to 3 feet. Its the largest invertebrate that lives on land and are usually found on tropical islands. They feed on fruit and stuff but occasionally eat turtle eggs and dead animals.

They are also edible.

[JoeChalupa]

I think this thread helps proves the existence of God.

Thank you for posting this Miami, and helping to share the wonders of God's creations.

I knew this was coming. :lmao :tu

[MiamiHeat]

It"s amazings

[MiamiHeat]

http://www.english-nature.org.uk/lifeinukrivers/species/species_images/lamprey8.jpg

looks like the star wars sand vagina pit right lol

[balli]

Nothing's got shit on the cuttlefish/cephalopod family.

The 4:44 mark of this video's crazy.
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[DarkReign]

Ajolote
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/gallery/albums/userpics/22445/normal_ajolote.jpg

Now I totally see how people think evolution is bullshit.

[SAhoops]

Fish with translucent head!!
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/54/barreleyec.jpg


http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=barreleye.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9o4VnfHJU
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9o4VnfHJU&eurl=http://conservationreport.com/2009/02/24/weird-and-fascinating-creatures-fish-with-translucent-head/)

[DarkReign]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/286656364_bf6f56aaf4.jpg?v=0

I mean....cmon now....

[desflood]

http://www.english-nature.org.uk/lifeinukrivers/species/species_images/lamprey8.jpg

Who's seen the movie Teeth?

[MiamiHeat]

Fish with translucent head!!
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/54/barreleyec.jpg


http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=barreleye.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9o4VnfHJU
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9o4VnfHJU&eurl=http://conservationreport.com/2009/02/24/weird-and-fascinating-creatures-fish-with-translucent-head/)
woah that is cool

[mrsmaalox]

Its really that big. Coconut Crabs can grow up to 16 inches in body length with a wingspan of up to 3 feet. Its the largest invertebrate that lives on land and are usually found on tropical islands. They feed on fruit and stuff but occasionally eat turtle eggs and dead animals.

They are also edible.

Wow, I'm making crab cakes for dinner tonight. How many you think I can get out of one of those? :lol

[Summers]

Nothing's got shit on the cuttlefish/cephalopod family.

The 4:44 mark of this video's crazy.
mW4PbW893ik

That was really cool!

[Summers]

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/willow/horseshoe-crab-info0.gif

We studied horseshoe crabs in one of my labs this week. Really neat animals. Their shells are used to make surgical sutures because they dissolve and their blood has a natural antibiotic element that is used in IV drugs and on medical instruments.

[MiamiHeat]

they also have

- blue blood that is based on copper and not iron
- have remain unchanged for over 250 million years
- can live for a year without eating
- can withstand extreme temperatures of cold and heat
- can withstand extreme changes in salinity


One quart of horseshoe crab blood is worth $ 15,000 dollars.

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[El Jefe]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/286656364_bf6f56aaf4.jpg?v=0

I mean....cmon now....

I'm gonna need to see some transitional fossils.

That is not a fossil. It is still alive. YOU HAVE NO PROOF....



......Or something

[balli]

One quart of horseshoe crab blood is worth $ 15,000 dollars.
Damn, I need to get myself a reproductive pair of horseshoe crabs.

[tp2021]

my favorite animal...

http://earth.jnfr.com/learn/platypus-ausEPA3.jpg

platyposterous!

[Chief]

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/mark-cuban-sirius.jpg

^Weird.Creature.Of.The.Earth.

[Frenzy]

Giant Isopods

http://zoomcritic.com/images/weird_fish/1.jpg
http://www.quartzcity.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/giant-isopod.jpg

:spless:

that looks like an alien :wow

[phyzik]

a Giant Cane Toad

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00029/ed_imgSNN2812gx1_540_29400a.jpg

These next few where found only recently, off the coast of Austrailia, are just some of the hundreds of new species found.

Twisted Nudibranch (A newly discovered type of sea Slug)

http://www.coml.org/comlfiles/images/DSC_1865.jpg

Christmas Tree Worm

https://www.edulink.networcs.net/sites/teachlearn/science/Image%20Library/Blue%20Christmas%20Tree%20Worm.jpg

Pohls Sea Urchin

http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/pohls%20sea%20urchin.jpg

Ctenophore (Combed Jellyfish)

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0fSderY3CIcOp/610x.jpg

Sabellids (Fan Worms)

http://infranetlab.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/08_09_19_sabellids_heronisland.jpg

[phyzik]

Time to get some Land Animals in this post....


Kakapo

http://webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/kakapo.jpg

This is not only the rarest, but the strangest parrot in the world. Imagine a rather portly nocturnal bird that never flies, preferring to hike through hilly forest for miles every night. It weighs in as the heaviest parrot in the world at 8 pounds. Imagine this and you have the very real (but virtually extinct) kakapo. A resident of New Zealand, which is home to a number of rare birds, there are only 62 kakapos remaining on earth. (Bonus fact: New Zealand is full of unusual creatures. It originally had no native land mammals, so its many unique birds evolved in unusual ways - which unfortunately has made them very vulnerable to mammals that were brought in during European colonization.)



Olm

http://webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/olms.jpg

This unusual amphibian is blind, lives to 100, and goes ten years at a stretch without food. It lives in the subterranean waters of Italy, Croatia and Herzegovenia, where it skeeves out the locals with its strange, human-like skin. Its nickname, in fact, is the “human fish”. Unlike most amphibians, the olm lives in the water for its whole life. Another oddity of the olm: its neotenic (larval) gills.



Aye Aye

http://webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/aye-aye.jpg

Sharing something in common with bats, aye ayes are the only primates of the mammal world to rely on echolocation for hunting. The aye aye is a rather unusual cousin of us humans. It lives in spherical nests with a small hole for entry and exit. It uses its long, slender middle finger to tap on trees in order to find tasty insects - and it uses this same finger to scoop them out. Perhaps it is due to its unusually-large eyes and ears that this unique, sensitive primate is believed to be a demon or a bad luck omen. A native of Madagascar, it is often killed at first notice by the island’s superstitious residents



Echidna

http://webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/echidna.jpg

The echidna is one of two egg-laying mammals in the world (the other is the famous duck-billed platypus). Though it looks a big hedgehog-like, this spiky creature is shy and non-confrontational. The echidna has a long, moist snout and an even longer tongue which it uses to feast on termites. It has no teeth, so it has to “chew” termites by crushing them between its tongue and mouth cavity. There are actually 4 species of echidna, and along with the platypus, they are the only monotremes.



Yellow-eyed Penguin

http://webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/yellow-eyed-penguin.jpg

The yellow-eyed penguin, also native to New Zealand, is the rarest and strangest penguin in the world. It can dive to an astounding depth of 400 feet, likes to feed 20 miles from shore, and prefers to nest in the forest rather than on the beach. Penguin families tend to keep to themselves rather than congregate as most penguins do. Because of shoreline deforestation, these unusual-looking penguins are at great risk.



Purple Frog

http://webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/purple-frog.jpg

The purple frog is really purple. But its brilliant hue is not the strange thing about it. The purple frog spends much of the year living 13 feet below ground. Also called the pignose for its snubbed nose, this western Indian-dwelling frog was only discovered in 2003, in Kerala. Locals had known about the purple frog for years, but scientists were skeptical. Part of the reason purple frogs were difficult to find was simply due to the fact that they only come up for air for two weeks during monsoon season in order to mate.




Dugong

http://webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/dugong.jpg

The dugong is a cousin of the manatee and is closely related to the elephant. The dugong is unique in that it has a split (whale-like) tail and will “perch” underwater on its tail in order to keep its head above water. The dugong is thought to have inspired ancient myths about mermaids. The dugong is threatened by poachers who hunt the animal for its meat, oil, skin and bones. It is extremely endangered.

[balli]

Anybody know about the Pizzly bear? Yup, that's right global warming and evolution cynics, polar bears are sick of dying from lack of sea ice and starvation so they're mating with grizzlys and moving south.

http://www.lindseywilliams.org/pix/Grolar-Pizzly-Bear.jpg

[InRareForm]

the crazy thing is that 99.9% of the species that have existed are no more. What other things were there??

[Summers]

This little guy (the pygmy tarsier) is cute:

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His eyes don't rotate in his skull, so he has to move his head for peripheral vision.

[MiamiHeat]

weird