The terrifying animals thread
This thread shall serve as a place to share information on animals that scare the shit out of you.
It's called the bobbit worm, because apparently the female attacks the male's penis and feeds it to her young. Oh, and it's four feet long. Fucking nature...
Cymothoa Exigua, a parasitic crustacean that eats a fish's tongue and then attaches itself to the remaining muscle, acting as the tongue itself
The botfly (larva pictured) lays it's eggs underneath the skin of farm animals, but sometimes people.
The motherfucking Aye-Aye
Isn't that the woman who wants to make herself look like a cat?
Mole Cricket!
The Vampire Finch. It lives in the Galapagos, and feeds off of the blood of larger birds.
The Candiru fish uses dozens of spines on its head to attach itself to the inside of other fish's gills and drinks their blood. It finds them by following streams of urea and ammomnia, both of which are found in human urine. As such, it often lodges itself into the urethra and must be removed surgically.
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"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
that's the one! those terrify the fuck out of me but i didn't know what they were or where they came from. they're really aggressive and you see them everywhere in the summertime. i tried to tell people about them and no one believed me but now i know what to call them. i hate those little fuckers.
I flat-out refuse to live in a universe where this exists. If this thing is real I am hunting down and killing them all.
Please tell me that this is full-grown and not a newborn.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I used to have nightmares about these.
THE HORRRRRRRRRORRRRRRRRRR
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
terrifying
and I mean, this is a household pet! fuckin little gremlin. Now, I can understand ugly dogs. I so can- smushy nose dogs and yappy little skak eyed poodles- faces and habits only mothers could love.
This dog right here could be the most well behaved, cleanest little lover in the world...
but Id still secretly want it to run away...
or turn into a puddle of slime and drip down a sewer, which would probably be more likely, considering the dog already looks like its been dead for months.
You do NOT disparage the memory of Sam the Ugly dog! I LOVE HEEEEM!
disparagedisparagedisparage
Who could forget these filthy muthafuckas?
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
the fuck is that
Never got a spammish e-mail about the camel spider? One of those viral emails went around when the Iraq war started with this pic, saying how camel spiders are crazy nocturnal creatures, who got their name because they eat camels, by injecting novacaine while mammals sleep and nawing off a limb overnight.
They were also supposed to hate light so much that if your shadow crossed into where they were hanging out, when you left they'd chase your shadow.
That was supposed to be a pic with soldiers holding a dead one. They look about the size of a...bigness. Really, they're kinda small, like the size of a computer mouse. That pic is misleading because the foregorund and midground are both in focus, making it seem like its the size of the guy's leg. I think in real life, they're kinda harmless. More proportional pic:
Their actual names are 'Solifugae' and they're more related to scorpions than spiders, but like, distant cousins of.
EDIT: Wrath of Ironmans, messed with my theirs, theres, and they'res.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
I thank God for spam filters every day.
Fucking leeches terrify me. Ick.
Oh god. I was going to post a picture of a huge centipede on this guys arm but after looking through a few I got grossed out and had to take a shower.
Is a centipede even an animal? Its a monster, for sure.
Giggan, I think your first picture was of two of them holding together making them look even crazier
fucking 5-legged spider creatures
edit: 5 legs on each side.......10 total.....
Why do the camel spiders look so much like those mini-monsters from cloverfield?
Behold, the Arthropleura:
It's extinct, obviously. But good god...
i hate this thread
someone should lock it and burn it and throw it away forever
I don't hate this thread as much as I hated the one about deep sea creatures - those freak me out.
Good coffee is like drinking Rock and Roll.
If you stare long enough something jumps out at you.
someone should lock it and burn it and throw it away forever
I agree. I just thought I felt something crawling over my foot.
“Those who argue that art and philosophy are proof of human worth neglect to mention that, in the scheme we have devised, artists and philosophers are powerless and largely without prestige. Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.” - George Carlin
Im pretty not afraid of anything with eight or four legs. Anything other than that and the chances of my pissing myself go way up.
Something rotting
Something terrifying
A Giant Isopod
Some kind of shark
A Viper Fish
I *heart* deep sea stuff.
And anything Cambrian.
This is why we can't have nice things.
someone should lock it and burn it and throw it away forever
i second this.
I didn't say I hated deep sea creatures - I said they freak me out. I don't believe in killing animals because you fear them so I wish them no harm but there certainly are some weird things in the water.
Also, being out far enough that I can't see land makes me go below and make drinks until I can't remember anymore.
Good coffee is like drinking Rock and Roll.
I can't believe no one has posted this thing yet. It's awful.
star nose moles are beautiful!
This is why we can't have nice things.
ahahahaahah AHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAH hahahahahaha aaHAHAHAHHAHAA HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHHAAH What the fuck??????
Kinda like a real life HypnoToad.
I think theyre cute, with their stupid noses.
Dude is that a mini zebra?
I have eaten this.
Many many times.
It is delicious.
The distended organ being measured here is its gonad. This one is female. We know this because it blood-engorged gonad is blue-green. The male's gonad is creamy beige.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I have eaten this.
Many many times.
It is delicious.
The distended organ being measured here is its gonad. This one is female. We know this because it blood-engorged gonad is blue-green. The male's gonad is creamy beige.
Is that some kind of Mollusc?
I still hate this thread and don't know why i keep looking at it.
this thread is slowly turning for the better
Kind of like when you stumble upon the strangest and most grotesque porn ever. You want to look away, but you can't.
Or... is that just me?
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
KING JULIAN IS LOVE!!!
*dances off*
Just so.
This is why we can't have nice things.
The Evil Puppy.