Thread of Creatures of amazing colours and imaginations

This guy has some amazing photos.

[url]http://www.thomasshahan.com/#photos[/url]

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Good looking everybody!

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:eek:

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[QUOTE=Nick Young]Magnets. How the phuck do they work?[/QUOTE]

Since I can't send this link directly to ICP

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetism[/url]

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[QUOTE]<...>the Brazilian treehopper is one of the strangest creatures I have ever seen!

From io9: "...Note that the 'balls' on the antenna-like structure aren't eyes, but simply spheres of chitin. A first guess is that it's a sexually-selected trait, but those are often limited to males, and these creatures (and the ones below) show the ornaments in both sexes. [Art Historian Martin Kemp, an expert on visualization in art and science] hypothesizes-and this seems quite reasonable-that 'the hollow globes, like the remarkable excrescences exhibited by other treehoppers, probably deter predators.' It would be hard to grab, much less chow down on, a beast with all those spines and excrescences.

Note, though, that the ornament sports many bristles. If these are sensory bristles, and not just deterrents to predation or irritating spines, then the ornament may have an unknown tactile function."
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[QUOTE]More info: [url]https://bitly.com/XAStoO[/url][/QUOTE]

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awesome

love this snake....scales are like little leafs

I counter your stylish bird

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[QUOTE]What do you think of this hairstyle? This is the Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus), and its green mohawk is made up of algae. This often covers the shell as well as the head, and helps to camouflage the animal.[/QUOTE]
Source: fb

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[url=http://izismile.com/2013/02/08/shortlisted_finalists_of_the_sony_world_photography_awards_35_pics.html]from the finalists for the sony world photography awards 2013...[/url]


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NBA team doing wind sprints?
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reminds me of fungi and jellyfish.
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gotta be a creature in there somewhere!
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btw, that's called a [b]ravine trapdoor spider[/b].



if you're a fan of patterns and asses, then you'll want to check out its amazing rump:
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yes... its rump forms the trapdoor to its little homey cave.
it's rump also looks like it would make a very fine ink stamp.

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isn't that the same guy who always sits 3rd-row-right behind the bench at the lakers' home games?

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That thing is pretty amazing. Evolution throws out some truly bizarre things.

[QUOTE=Anti Hero]Jack?[/QUOTE]
the guy with the rainbow afro, sunglasses, and lots of body hair, like in the pic. :D

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Nature is ****ing awesome.

this is an interesting colonial creature made up of 2,000+ hotwheels.
if you stare at it a long time you will notice it moving very, very slowly...

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^ nice, but the moving part is way another story.

This is a bear cub:
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This is animated frog/toad kind of puppy:

[url]www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBkWhkAZ9ds[/url]

[QUOTE=kNIOKAS]^ nice, but the moving part is way another story.

This is a bear cub:
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You know that's an owl baby, right? :lol





















This is the Mantis Shrimp which has the most complicated visual system of any animal by a factor of 2. Humans have 3 color receptors Mantis Shrimp have 16 color receptors.

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[QUOTE=RoboticWang]This is the Mantis Shrimp which has the most complicated visual system of any animal by a factor of 2. Humans have 3 color receptors Mantis Shrimp have 16 color receptors.[/QUOTE]
mechanically they also have a 3-axis system of focusing whereas humans
only have two. something like that, anyway.


but if you watch video of their eyes in action, you'll see the pupils 'scanning'
back and forth like a cylon from the original battlestar galactica. it's super-
crazy-wild-awesome.... the closest thing we'll ever see to an extra-terrestrial
visual system, i'm sure.

[quote=miller-time]That thing is pretty amazing. Evolution throws out some truly bizarre things.[/quote]
[URL="http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/"]http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/[/URL]

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repped.

Get your weak shit out of here!
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Imma chill

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Rosy Maple Moth

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[QUOTE=kNIOKAS]
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I need to go see these guys before I die

on my bucket lest

[QUOTE=-p.tiddy-]I need to go see these guys before I die

on my bucket lest[/QUOTE]
What do you mean see before you die? You want watch makakas sratchin balls, enjoying? You be tempted to join them don't you.


Anyways,
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[QUOTE]
The Blue Dragon (Glaucus atlanticus) is a nudibranch (sea slug) that can reach up to about 2 inches; spend its entire life floating on the surface of temperate and tropical waters all over the world, feeding on cnidarians like caravels and Velellas, using the ingested toxins to become more threatening.

Mais/More: [url]http://bit.ly/w7tDOP[/url]
Photos: Adrian Giles / Zekoo1
Video: [url]http://bit.ly/XzQm6u[/url]
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Seems like sea slugs are like caterpillars of the sea:

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