The strangeness of nature in all its forms

A much more boring fish living under Antartica

Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:38:03 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

And now they found fish living under Antartica, too...

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I am in love with this new deep sea fish!

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 20:12:30 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

so ghostly, so pretty! More on the expedition that found it at BBC. "It is unbelievably fragile, and when it swims, it looks like it has wet tissue paper floating behind it. And it has a weird snout—it looks like a cartoon dog snout."

Here's 14 of the many species we discovered in the past year

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Hermit Crab House Party

Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:39:22 GMT

Posted by: birguslatro

Hermit Crabs, when they see I nice big new shell, line up in a row, biggest to smallest, to exchange their shells...

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141103-hermit-crab

No queue jumping allowed!

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Happy Halloween: A 4 acre spider web

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:43:21 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

Scientists eventually estimated over 107 million spiders were living in the structure, with densities of 35,176 spiders per m³ in spots.

yessssss

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Giant red leech consumes giant blue worm

Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:29:03 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

video from Borneo by the BBC

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Spider hides from spider-eating spiders amongst spider-eating ants

Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:52:41 GMT

Posted by: nanila

How did this even evolve.

(No picture because spiders. Beware: link contains pictures of spiders.)

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Star Trek had it wrong

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 23:07:23 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

Blood based on copper is baby blue, not green. We know this because we harvest the blood of horseshoe crabs for its magical properties, and it's baby blue.

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First gear found in living creature

Fri, 27 Dec 2013 20:47:14 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

On the legs of jumping critter the size of an ant:

The gears help synchronize the movements of jumping in a precise manner. The weirdest part is it's only on the juveniles! The feature gets lost as an adult.

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Fox science

Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:59:20 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

Fox, why do you only catch rodents under the snow when you are facing North! If so, why do you bother with the other directions!

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IDEK

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:35:54 GMT

Posted by: ironed_orchid

Planthopper from Suriname

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new species of gecko discovered

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 02:06:31 GMT

Posted by: ironed_orchid

Leaf-tailed geckos are large, impressive lizards that are highly camouflaged against rocks and tree trunks. Most species are rainforest dependent but some occur in drier habitats in association with rock. These geckos are restricted to eastern Australia, with species having highly localized distributions, including some found on a single mountain or range.

The six previously known species of the genus Saltuarius are distributed in rock outcrops and rainforests along the ranges from northern New South Wales to the Wet Tropics region of north-east Queensland.

The newly discovered species, scientifically named Saltuarius eximius, is known only from the vicinity of the type locality in the uplands of the Melville Range, Cape Melville.

More info and MOAR PICTURES at Sci-News

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Life can be slower than you can imagine

Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:36:57 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

Deep microbes live long and slow -- microbes deep in the ocean that only divide once every TEN THOUSAND YEARS

I can't even

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Lord Howe Island stick insects, aka "Tree Lobsters"

Sun, 30 Jun 2013 08:24:52 GMT

Posted by: rokeon

So these are massive, 12 cm long bugs that already look like nightmare fuel even before you watch the video of one hatching and realize that they were actually designed by H. R. Giger. But the deeply awesome part is that they were believed to be extinct for 80 years until a couple of scientists went hunting and found a surviving population of exactly 24 insects living under a single shrub on a neighboring island:

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

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Ice worms: melt at 40*F

Sat, 29 Jun 2013 18:17:14 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

Ice worms live in glaciers and MELT AT 40*F! They are designed to spend their entire lives at temperatures near 32*F. And we're not talking tiny things either, this species grows to 2.4 inches.

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Meet the hatterpillar

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:16:17 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

Every time it sheds, it leaves the molt of its previous heads' exoskeleton on top.

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Sharks: cannibalizing their siblings.

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:27:54 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

...IN THE WOMB.

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This insect is SO TINY

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 01:04:28 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

No more than .25 millimeters long. HOW DO THEY EVEN.

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How can it make sense to have legs that long

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:57:10 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

Anyway, I'm not sure I mentioned it, but I took over administration of this community. So, if you have any requests for it, let me know. I have started out by doing some tagging.

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Desert Rain Frog

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:46:38 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

I didn't know nature made squeaky toys.

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go home evolution, you are drunk

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:07:55 GMT

Posted by: forthwritten

I suspect this is relevant to the interests of many of this community's members.

http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/

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What snake venom does to your blood

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:17:14 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

Specifically, that of a Russell Viper:

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Old timey ants!

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:20:40 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

That were two inches big!

In other news: I now have admin capabilities to this community! That means I can start tagging things!

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So...lobsters pee out of their head.

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:48:22 GMT

Posted by: foxfirefey

And communicate by peeing. No seriously, read The Language of the Lobster.

This realization brought to you by news about this awesome split color lobster.

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just in case you were wondering

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:01:36 GMT

Posted by: ironed_orchid

How to Write About Hermaphrodite Sex

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Octopus photographed eating a gull

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:46:03 GMT

Posted by: ironed_orchid

link

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