Fa-reaks of nature

[the spliff fairy]

NONE OF THESE ARE PHOTOSHOPPED. Look them up yourselves on a search engine if you like... then brace.

Isopods




no mate no



adopt me!



the tongue eating isopod, it eats the tongue then replaces it, NICE


little alien fecker




The maned fox




Mekong catfish, being stuffed



Amazon catfish




normal salamander



Japanese/Chinese Giant salamander (6.5ft/ 2m long)




the parasitic Candiru catfish
Do not swim in the amazon naked - it swims itself into peoples arses and imbeds itself inside.
Even worse it can get lodged in the head of the penis, and feed of fyour blood:






Giant jellyfish- dangerous




Tigerfish, Congo River




I don't know what the hell this is - any suggestions (no its not crocodilian, its a fish)



In Madagascar this animal is cursed, noone can even mention it's name.
To even see one means death. The aye aye:

Baby



Adult - check out the freaky fingers


wot?





Flying snakes (of course theyre just tree jumping species):






Indri, the worlds largest lemur, almost human sized:





Deep sea chimera


prehistoric shark rediscovered off Japan.
The frilled shark:




Goblin shark:







spooky, seal eating, polar bear chomping Greenland Sharks.
These are the biggest predatory sharks, not the Great White:



their teeth were so sharp Eskimos used to cut their hair with them


all sharks are blinded by a parasite (hence you can approach them). Noone really knows how they
are able to catch quick moving seals.


Oarfish, up to 50ft long








Megamouth shark, another rediscovered prehistoric species:








the Vampire squid, tendency to turn itself inside out:






New species, strange 23 ft long squid:




Cranchid Balloon Squid, cute lil fella:





33ft long Hamilton squid:



some weird spider


camel spiders. These aren't that big (will happily nuzzle into your palm),
but they are fuzzy and do have more than the 8 legs.:



the prehistoric Malaysian trapdoor spider
(count the legs again). It ambushes prey by flying out of a web
trapdoor at anything that rustles nearby e.g YOUR HAND.





someones gonna to get surprise:
Coconut crab:



Leopard Seal, 15ft long predator eats penguins and other seals.
Theyre as big as the biggest Great White sharks



they can weigh up to 11,000 lbs








The number of legs changes with the individual, from six to fourteen.
Sea spider (bit chewy).






twat







Giant spider crab







Watutsi cattle, native to Kenya:

Do not piss off

Growing stages





the horns on this guy weigh 100lb a pop


South American Longhorn Beetle 16cm:




worlds smallest monkeys, pygmy marmosets





baby albino twins:


Make wicked finger puppets.
They don't enjoy it much tho.

[the spliff fairy]

the Pitohui, the world's only poisonous bird, discovered in Paua New Guinea.
Its skin, feathers, beak and claws are toxic




Sheep killing parrots of New Zealand, the Kea.
Known to attack weak and sick animals, also known to fly at them
and cause them to dash themselves off cliffs, farmers claim up to
500 sheep can be killed in a season by these birds.





Cassowaries, the worlds most dangerous bird

up to 6ft tall and armed with a lethal spike on its feet, it will strike out when provoked.
The last person to die was a teenager taunting an animal that sliced him open from neck to belly:



dont mess


dinosaur!



Great Gray Owl
constantly pissed off bird



Old Native American legends call them ghosts




I kid ye not, these are real

[Gherkin]

This is my all time favourite thread Great work!!

Naked Mole Rat:




Shield Octopus: (also referred to as Dumbo octopus - upto 1.5m across!)





Glowing Sucker Octopus (50cm across) Look at it's horns!




Batfish:






A tiny deep sea Amphipod:




Pelagic Sea Slug:





The Almighty Sunfish! Bizarre facts in the link below:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=512926



That makes a great wallpaper

[the spliff fairy]

wicked!

I found more mola pics. Theyre kinda cute, for a big floaty head.


albino specimen


cute juveniles


adult


Up to 11ft long

[the spliff fairy]

Ive been told its a long nosed gar, a big kind of fish in the Souther States of the US.


Right, hereby presenting...

The box jellyfish - there are 19 different species



The worlds most venomous creature, said to be the greatest pain one can inflict upon a person. In breeding seasons millions of these things suspend their tentacles through Australian waters forcing thousands of beaches to close - and believe me you wouldnt want to go swimming. 5,600 people have died since 1950.



There are up to 60 tentacles 3 metres long on each one of these suckers. The slightest hair trigger will shoot tiny harpoons into your skin that pump out the venom - a substance so toxic it dissolves human flesh via the arteries, and hits every pain receptor in your immune system.

A researcher describes being stung very very slightly. Whilst holding a jellyfish inside a bucket, one of the tentacles was drooped over the edge of the slop. As the researcher walked the tentacle swayed and just touched his hand. He said that tiny hair touch was like someone holding a red hot poker to him and not moving.

Eyewitnesses describe the death of an unfortunate swimmer who jumped in the sea ignoring the warning signs. Within seconds they heard an inhuman scream, the man was frothing and having a fit. They dragged him out and he had passed out from the pain - he had been stung all across his torso. The paramedics took a while to arrive to the deserted beach, and took him to the city, where he died later in hospital.
...But get this, he was screaming the whole time, on the beach, through the ambulance ride, on the operating table - unconscious. Not moaning, screaming.

survivors are scarred for life

[the spliff fairy]

this is how I felt in my job interview yesterday




this me Sunday morning

[Chogmook]

Originally Posted by the spliff fairy

Gotta catch em all! Gotta catch em all! Pokemon...

[Gherkin]

I found an old National Geographic book from 1989 and it claimed that the aye-aye was extinct. Had they not been seen for ten years then been rediscovered? I didn't even think it was even rare, let alone endangered.

[Caiman]

These aren't freaks of nature, this is just nature, and it's amazing. The Earth is a fucking amazing place.

[Delirium]

Those Isopods were messd up (along with quite a few of them )

[the spliff fairy]

Yep nature kicks arse

These have a poisonous bite



the Amazonian variety (baby):





And the biggest f***er of all

be warned footage of a mouse fed to a giant centipede: The mouse struggles a while

[Wendigo Wendigo]

Looks like a good time for my old Bolivian friend to make a reappearance.

[the spliff fairy]

seriously mate, what the fuck is that?? Looks like an oven glove from Chernobyl.
My guess is its a hairy moth caterpillar from the jungle.


Presenting the Ethiopian mountain monkeys, the only herding/ grazing primates (groups of 500 or more):


Gelada baboon, me on a monday


You don't want to look too close mate

[Wendigo Wendigo]

Originally Posted by the spliff fairy

seriously, what the fuck is that?? Looks like an oven glove from Chernobyl.
My guess is its a hairy moth caterpillar from the jungle.

It's a Bolivian Pus Caterpillar. Under all that fur are a bunch of highly venomous spines, which means that if you touch it you can say hello to coma-land.

[the spliff fairy]

Nice. I think someone needs to give Bigfoot his pet back.

That is so NOT what Id like to see crawling across my bed in the morning. Everyone in Bolivia should just move out.

[The Rt. Hon.]

Wow, amazing creatures. David Attenborough needs to step up his game now and start filming these freaks instead of boring aminals like wildebeest and orangutan (kidding obviously).

I suspect one or two of them might be a hoax though.

[Jack Rabbit Slim]

Originally Posted by The Rt. Hon.

I suspect one or two of them might be a hoax though.

[Dan B]

Jesus, this thread puts me off visiting anywhere exotic. Probably wouldn't see all these creatures, but big poisonous spiders are enough. Good thread though, introduced me to a lot of the planet's rather grimly interesting creatures.

To add a truly interesting, although not exactly freakish, creature, here's the Lyre Bird:



Having the ability to imitate any sound, natural or artificial.

[Gherkin]

I've always had a soft spot for alcapas:

[Milan Luka]

Im a big fan of sunfish.

Hate lampreys, so evil. They want to take over the world. They have already started with fish.....



.... and now they are attacking innocent Minnesotans.