[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Freaky Animals Thread [Pics] (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 3/17/2009 3:34:54 PM EDT
Coconut Crab :Largest land crab on earth.
Japanese Spider Crab 
Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox: The largest bat in the world. It lives in the Phillipines and can have a wingspan of five feet. 
Blob Fish 
The geji a japanese centipede 
Giant Jellyfish (Echizen kurage) 
Scaly Dragonfish 
Fanfin Seadevil 
Gulper Eel 
Sea Pig 
Fish with a transparent head more here: FIRST PHOTOS: Weird Fish With Transparent Head 
Saiga Antelope 
goblin shark 
Hatchetfish 
Yeti Crab 
Dunno what this is, but WTF! 
???No Clue??? URL says monkeypig 
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? I'm not sure a .45 would faze that thing.
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The Monkeypig is a mutant pig born in China IIRC ETA Holy crap! is that a quarter pounder? (look at the "tail") http://i42.tinypic.com/2m5jlhs.jpg LMAO ! That tail IS a quarterpounder... eta....fish with transparent head is awesome |
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http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd138/subzero9285/Sub/giant-jelly-fish-deep-ocean-life-fo.jpg If I saw this, I'd need to change my wetsuit. 
Giant Jellyfish |
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http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd138/subzero9285/Sub/giant-jelly-fish-deep-ocean-life-fo.jpg If I saw this, I'd need to change my wetsuit.
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I call BS on that jellyfish. Wikipedia is your friend... ETA: The picture is exaggerated, but I was still surprised a jellyfish can get up to 450lbs. |
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I don't know about that photo, but there are Giant Jellyfish...having been seen in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0lTqKcYc8 |
Giant Centipede (Scolopendra gigantea)
Can grow over 12 in in length. Eats lizards, frogs, birds, mice, bats and tarantulas! Here it is, eating a mouse! |
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Don't forget the giant Isopod http://bioephemera.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/380353_028542ead3.jpg http://elece.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/giant-isopod.jpg http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02mexico/logs/oct13/media/isopod_450.jpg http://www.perhapanauts.com/blog/uploaded_images/GiantIsopod-764949.jpg http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06mexico/logs/summary/media/giant_isopod_600.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/102984876_0aa7d562b8.jpg http://home.blarg.net/~wayule/graphics/isopod1.jpg Looks like something out of Starship troopers! 
Gotta like those Saigas, BTW. Got a nice rifle named after them. |
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There needs to be more dead in this thread. +1 Are those coconut crabs good eatin? How about anything else in this thread? -Foxxz Answered my own question. Now I wish to feast! The coconut crab is eaten by the Pacific islanders and is considered a delicacy and an aphrodisiac, with a taste similar to lobster and crab meat. The most prized parts are the eggs inside the female coconut crab and the fat in the abdomen. Coconut crabs can be cooked like other large crustaceans, by boiling or steaming. Different islands also have a variety of recipes, as for example, coconut crab cooked in coconut milk.
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angler fish. Probably one of the strangest fish I have heard of. Saw a show about them. This is from wiki. When scientists first started capturing ceratioid anglerfish, they noticed that all of the specimens were females. These individuals were a few inches in size and almost all of them had what appeared to be parasites attached to them. It turned out that these "parasites" were the remains of male ceratioids.
At birth, male ceratioids are already equipped with extremely well developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. When it is mature, the male's digestive system degenerates, making him incapable of feeding independently, which necessitates his quickly finding a female anglerfish to prevent his death. The sensitive olfactory organs help the male to detect the pheromones that signal the proximity of a female anglerfish. When he finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level. The male then atrophies into nothing more than a pair of gonads, which releases sperm in response to hormones in the female's bloodstream indicating egg release. This extreme sexual dimorphism ensures that, when the female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available. 
random stuff 
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Let me fix that for you. Mole Cricket. |
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Fuck that. Nuke it. |
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Let me fix that for you. Mole Cricket. Aha!! I have always wondered what those were. Thank you |
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Is that what that is?! I have one of those here on my desk right now. 
THey are kinda cool. |
