Aye real shit bruh I understand why people hundreds of years ago always claimed they’ve seen demons or have folk tales about mythological creatures because if I seen some shit like this
Before biology/science came along I’d be like “yeah mane that’s a gotdamn demon”
The Turtle frog (Myobatrachus gouldii) looks like a turtle that lost its shell 🙂
I think I’ll have to stop for now (I could go on for quite a while: Colourful frogs! Poisonous frogs! Shovel-nosed frogs! Striped frogs! Aquatic frogs! Burrowing frogs! Tiny frogs! Giant frogs! Frogs frogs frogs frogs frogs!).
Don’t forget to take a look at the last post about the most bad-ass of all frogs: the Hairy or Horror frog (Trichobatrachus robustus), also known as the Wolverine of the amphibian world 🙂
are tube-building, segmented bristle worms that live in tropical oceans. Named for their tree-like appearance, the multicolored spirals are actually highly derived structures for feeding and respiration.
Because it does not move outside its tube, this worm does not have any specialized appendages for movement or swimming. Instead, it bores into living coral, secretes a calcium carbonate tube around its body, and survives by filter feeding. (xxxxxxx)
As funny as this is, as someone who has met a European badger, all I can say is at least the American one has the decency not to hide the fact that it will tear your kidneys out via your toes if you so much as look at it funny.
Three new species of microbe found in the guts of termites have been named after members of the Canadian prog-rock band Rush, owing to the microbes’ long hair and rhythmic wriggling under the microscope.
“A Spanish postdoc, Javier del Campo, asked me to recommend some good Canadian music, and I suggested he listen to Rush,” says Patrick Keeling, a University of British Columbia microbiologist and senior author on the paper describing the new species. “He came back to me and said ‘Those microbes we’re finding have long hair like the guys on the album 2112!’”
The microbes in question are covered with flagella, which are long threads that cells use to move around. Many cells have a few flagella, but these little rockers have more than ten thousand very long flagella, giving them flowing hair that even Farrah Fawcett might envy.
And while Rush may not be famous for their dance moves, the tiny creatures also have rhythm. They bob their heads and sway their bodies in microscopic dances, prompting the researchers to baptize the new Pseudotrichonympha species P. leei, P. lifesoni, and P. pearti after musicians Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart.
Javier del Campo, Erick R. James, Yoshihisa Hirakawa, Rebecca Fiorito, Martin Kolisko, Nicholas A. T. Irwin, Varsha Mathur, Vittorio Boscaro, Elisabeth Hehenberger, Anna Karnkowska, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Patrick J. Keeling. Pseudotrichonympha leei, Pseudotrichonympha lifesoni, and Pseudotrichonympha pearti, new species of parabasalian flagellates and the description of a rotating subcellular structure. Scientific Reports, 2017; 7 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16259-8
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Pachliopta kotzebuea butterfly, she’s so black the light won’t even bounce off her wings, that’s why she looks like a butterfly-shaped black hole on camera 🙂
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