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>>1005266

:o Japanese giant salamander! Those things are awesome, if extremely mean/aggressive! :D

>>1005264

Fuck yeah, Troll Face Whale!

Something about the leopard seal just makes it look retarded in every photo.

>>1005310
This can't be for real

>>1005320
What the fuck is that and can I feed it during the night.

>>1005310
It is real.

>>1005414

Believe!

Never even knew these existed until I was 18.

FANGS.

Scale model of an extinct crocodile.

>>1005426
tayra! I love those guys.

it makes me so happy to see these out in the wild, they are true badasses

Lesser Mouse Deer (Lesser Mice Deer?) creep me out.

>>1005456
That's a.. Garr, right?

>>1005458
you gotta be shitting me if that isn't a shoop

>>1005460
Gar.

>>1005472
I thought the same thing too, until I googled it. Wtf, is it a mouse, or a deer? I can't tell!

Wombats. Everything about then just seems like Australia has been lying to us.

1. They move like puppets
2. They poop in perfect cubes
3. They look fucking ridiculous
4. It is actually more illegal to export them from Australia than any other endangered or crazy poisonous Australian creature.
5. They have reinforced backsides. What possible reason could you have for having a reinforced ass?

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I seriously believe that Australia has been trolling the world with the existence of the wombat. It's kinda a stupid thing to think but look at that shit. Fucking photoshopped.

Interestingly I saved an image from Google only to find it was completely blank, feeding my skepticism.

>>1005498
They are deer. There is some sort of evolutionary law where animals who are extremely isolated, like on islands, grow really really small.

Something about more food for everyone, higher survival rate since they eat less food (and therefor have more resources) and less competition for mating and territory rights since there is so little room available, and when you are small you can only take up so much.

It's the same reason why komodo dragons aren't still the size of rhinoceroses, like their ancestors where.

>>1005509
I can tell you about the reinforced ass - when chased by predators, the wombat digs a ditch in the ground and huddles into it, leaving only the ass visible.

>>1005423
>>1005310
makes me think of that doug show for some reason

>>1005509
>2. They poop in perfect cubes

That cannot possibly be tr--

Oh my god.

>>1005550
I like the file name

>>1005525
Fuck that's adorable. Is it likely to injure me if I keep it as a pet?

watchout for pic dump

we have these around my house, they look like hummingbirds straight up. that's what we thought they were until we got a closer look. big fuckers

>>1005556
When the predator tries to shove its face over the top of the wombat butt to get to the unprotected back, the wombat then shoves up with its legs which crushes the skull of the predator against the roof of the den

>>1005633
moths are so adorable.

>>1005509
Fucking wombats. You look at them the wrong way and they chase you around making obscene grunts and trying to rip off your achilles tendon, and they're so round and fat that you can't even grab them to make them stop. True bogans of the goddamned bushland.

>>1005526
You aren't entirely wrong in principle here, but in this specific case you are mistaken. Chevrotains are an example of primitive artiodactylans that never grew to large sizes. They are living fossils, animals that didn't change after the appearance of grasslands that prompted an explosion of all sizes and shapes of ruminants. They aren't even restricted to Asian islands but also found in Africa.

As for island dwarfism, that is something that does happen to large species when they get isolated on small landmasses. Lack of nutrients and space are the major reasons why smaller individuals are more succesful in those circumstances and the population starts to shift towards dwarfism. It doesn't happen to all species though. Small animals often experience island gigantism instead. Lack of predation may allow them to grow larger than usual, or if they are predators, the lack of competition allows them to become apex predators and grow to unusual sizes.

This is why the island of Flores once had dwarf elephants and humans but giant rats, varanids and storks. Of these the giant varanids are still around, Komodo dragons that is. It actually is an extant example of island gigantism, not dwarfism! While it is related to the giant Australian monitor Megalania, it is not its descendant.

>>1005663

>>1005663

the shoebill stork is fucking intense looking.

How the hell has this not been posted yet?

seaslugs are all kinds of unreal.

dumpan my seaslug pictures

aaaand that's all.

i have more, but they all look similar to the rest of the pics i've dumped, only with different colors.

i'll dump some non-seaslugs too. i love weird creatures.

>>1005735
Is that the sea slug that eats algae and steals their chloroplasts for its own cells so it can photosynthesize?

>>1005746

i didn't even know slugs can do that.

just found it on google when collecting weird animal pictures lol.

>>1005525
Three cheers for the fucking lion-weasel!! More pics needed!

>>1005509
>What possible reason could you have for having a reinforced ass?

Wombats defend themselves by charging you, turning 180° and ramming you with their ass. A reinforced ass helps with that.

>>1005800
Holy shit, he has that damn pudding face

>>1005458
>>1005498

the lesser mouse-deers (or called the Kancil) are sort of a trickster animal in Malay folklore. Think of them something like Renard the Fox or Anansi the Spider, outsmarting bigger animals than itself to survive.
Growing up I was told many a tale of the intellectual exploits of this wondrous creature.

Here's a picture of it jumping on a group of crocodiles like a boss.

>>1005800

>>1005607
>>1005611
>>1005615
>>1005617
My sister is terrified of moths. When she found out that those pretty hummingbirds in our yard were not actually birds she flipped the fuck out.

>>1005884

how do you mistake a moth for a hummingbird? i'd mistake bees for hummingbirds at the very least.

>>1005890
They're really big moths, and their wings move really fast. From a distance they look just like a hummingbird.

>>1005890
it's the size of a hummingbird and looks exactly like one in flight. darts here and there quickly, you see it for a few seconds and it's gone.

from 20ft away you can't see details.

you really should grow an imagination, you're pretty dense.

>>1005890
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toNUsuYAZiw
Because they really fucking look like hummingbirds?

>>1005920
>>1005904
>>1005898

jesus, i thought she meant those slow-ass moths.

>>1005932
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCts_tGx4eY&feature=related
these are the ones around my house

super badass

Obligatory transparent head fish

>>1005453
what is this i've never seen anything like this

>>1005435
MUDKIPZ! :D

>>1005989
Horseshoe crab.

.captcha: lities mucilage.

Meanwhile at the bottom of the ocean...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT1TSbarW1U

Hentai tentacle rape monsters are real.

Marrus orthocanna

Clione limacina

Stygiomedusa gigantea

Tasselled wobbegong

>>1006011
>>1005989
not a horseshoe crab, its a giant isopod. Very much like those rolly-polly bugs under rocks and stuff only they live on the ocean floor

Colossendeis colossea

Pigbutt worm

From a similar thread in /x/

>>1006027
Jesus christ what the fuck.

Thaumatichthys pagidostomus

>>1006019

>>1005795
What the hell even is that?

>>1005604>>1005600
i wasn't even sure what i was looking at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS1tEnfkk6M&t=2m

>>1006079
i have that pic their Zebra fish larvae plus it says in the file name.

>>1005792

It's like a metroid and a squid had beautiful little babies.

Check out what this spider can do.

sorry wrong one

I realpy wish the Terror Bird was not extinct. We totally could have domesticated them.

FUCK YOUR HORSES SPAIN, THE NATIVE AMERICANS WOULD HAVE HAD GIGANTIC FUCKING RAPTOR BIRDS TO KICK ASS WITH.

Seriously, horse vs. 7-9 foot tall bird with deadly beak. Bird wins.

>>1006187
Ain't got shit on Andrewsarchus

No Yeti Crab yet?

>>1006195

I like how the tail of whatever's behind him lines up perfectly. Confused me for a sec when I saw it.

Fangtooth

Lobster moth (Stauropus fagi)

>>1005509
they have a hard plate protecting their ass because they burrow head first, and if predators try to get to their ass they cant penetrate the hard plate and wombat lives.

I FUCKING HATE THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN

THIS IS WHY I AM TERRIFIED OF THE OPEN SEA

I AM A 24 YEAR OLD MAN AND I WOULD SERIOUSLY FREAK THE !F!U!C!K! OUT IF I WERE EVER PUT IN SEAWATER FUTHER OUT THAN 50 METERS FROM THE SHORE

THIS IS A SERIOUS PHOBIA

FUCK YOU /an/

Assassin spider (Eriauchenius gracilicollis)

Coconut crab

Lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus)

Encyosaccus sexmaculatus

Crucifix Toad

Epicadus heterogaste

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKPrGxB1Kzc

THIS
this thing is wacked

>>1006654

motherfuckers why is everything so big in japan

Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle

Hoatzin

Leafy Sea Dragon

>>1006690

That's a mythically beautiful bird.

Eciton burchellii

These guys are terrifying

jajajajja strange eh?

>>1006077

>>>/vp/

Looks like something from Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.

>>1005448
holy shit it's the mice from Coraline (I thought they were designed around baby rats)

Anyway this is a pretty cool thread.

>>1006754

> nofunallowed.jpg

>>1005264
What is this by the way?

>>1007311
>rosy lipped batfish.jpg

>>1006187
>We totally could have domesticated them.

We totally missed that opportunity. They were extinct by the time humans finally reached SA. :(

>>1005604

>>1005453
What is this?

I remember seeing a pic of a red one as a kid in a book on Australia's most venomous creatures?

Looks like a sea slug with legs...

>>1006656
This reminds me, I remember seeing a video some type of frog that had a really funny looking face, all squinted up with a tiny little mouth like it had eaten something really sour. Any idea what type of frog it was?

>>1006027
Why must EVERY wapanese tvprogram have a box with deadbeats reacting to what's happening on-screen?

>>1007538
You see it in anime and manga too with overly dramatic faces. It is just their version of a laugh track and shows the viewers what hey should be feeling.

>>1007538
>>1007539
Because the average Nipponesian, being a particularly advanced class of android, requires cues as to appropriate emotional response as their emotion chips aren't yet good enough.

yeah, makes sense now doesn't it? All that Gundam, all that mecha? Their REAL pron...

The Giant Anteater looks goofy as hell. Its head looks like something out of a cartoon.

>>1005509

>>5. They have reinforced backsides. What possible reason could you have for having a reinforced ass?

I know you're not entirely serious, but this does make a ton of sense. When being chased, predators are probably going to for your backsides.

best /an/ thread EVER

Pilumnus verspertillio

Heteronucia venusta

>>1005676
Thank you for the correction, I must have not remembered a documentary about komodo dragons correctly. I watched it when I was like, 12, lol. All I really remember was a CGI giant ass komodo dragon, and a memorial marker to some guys who got lost, and then where eaten by a swarm of komodo dragons in the dead of the night.

>>1006187
We can technically just take birds that already exist, like the ostrich, and either manipulate them when developing in the egg, or just breed/genetically modify them to become Terror Birds.

There's a scientist who already did that with chicken embryos, and gave them a reptile like tale, scales, and teeth in their beaks.

But in the documentary he said he destroys the eggs before they hatch, for various reasons.

>>1005676
Actually Megalania is not considered a valid genus anymore.

It "Megalania" prisca fits well into Varanus genus (it's renamed Varanus priscus) and it's probably most closely related with the Perentie (V. giganteus) from Australia..

>>1007511

glaucus atlanticus

>>1005267
I'm being trolled...

Right?

>>1008278

links

Sound like you watched Jurassic Park while stoned and forgot it wasn't real to me.

The colors!

Deep-water frog crab

>>1008415
We have those here. I see the caterpillars all over the place.

>>1008278
>he destroys the eggs before they hatch, for various reasons.

So, they're delicious, then?

>>1008401

I heard Bob Bakker talking about it on NPR once. It's a real experiment.

Muthafucking.
Honduran.
Tent.
Bats.

>>1008463
Those guys are the ultimate pimps, they make little tents out of leaves, and then collect a harem of females that live in them.

>>1008398
Nope, that's real.

>>1008401
No, Jack Horner and his associates have really set out to find the switches they need to trigger to turn a bird back into a dinosaur.


http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazine/17-03/st_qa

>>1008465
Links or it didn't happen.

>>1008476
Yep, thanks for the link! I could never remember the name of that documentary after I watched it.

It's completely fascinating how they proved that chickens have pretty much a lot (but obviously not all) of the same genes as dinosaurs, and all they have to do is to activate those genes, by using small beads of protein placed in certain parts of the fetus as it is developing.

>>1008476
/an/ where chickens get turned into dinosaurs.

>>1008516
>where chickens get turned into dinosaurs
You know, that could act as a cool metaphor for a coward beta's transformation into a brave alpha in a story.

Just putting that out there.

>>1005676
Interestingly enough, Komodo dragons (and other large monitor lizards) are an example of island gigantism.

>>1008524
>>1008516
>>1008505
>>1008476

>>1008607

I saw the first and third yoooo....

I've always hated it how in things like this, they'll change families and shite, like in Beethoven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnn-wMPU9w

Bilby

Marsupial Mole

Can we get some giant pig size guinea pigs?
Yes sir

Theres a reason natives thing these things are devils

>>1008652
I find this to be the definitive "wtf is that" aye aye picture

Aand that is all

I meant to post the Sea Pig but I fucked up and posted it outside the thread

>>1008666
Protip: You can click the check mark next to the post, then click the "delete" button in the bottom right corner. It will delete the image and the thread.

Behold, the modern miracle of a featherless (and scaleless) chicken!

>>1008926
Followed up by another man-made abomination: a sphynx kitten.

>>1008927

you know, this thread makes me give the new seasons of pokemon credit for all those wacky new pokemon they come up with. lol

Metagyndes innata

Duliticola

Giraffe weevil

>>1008927

Looks more like a dog to me.

Labidiaster annulatus

>>1010618
That's because you haven't seen a newborn sphynx before (probably because their pictures are hard to come by, especially the super-wrinkly ones).

>>1006656
Goomba!

>>1005320

"Nigga, is you serious?"

FUCKING TAPIRS

Bump!

peacock spider

>>1008278
>>1008476
DID THEY LEARN NOTHING FROM JURASSIC PARK?

>>1011685

Real life never mimics the movies. amirite?

(I for one welcome our new reptilian overlords)

>>1005319
>retarded
You spelled "fucking terrifying" wrong.

>>1005796
IT'S A FUCKING POTATO.

>>1008927

this whole thread

>>1005266

Why can't I hold all this salamander?

>>1006063

i'd love to stick my cock in that.

>>1005708
Rape face ACTIVATE

Elephant Shrew. Look at that punk hairdo.

I'm telling you right now, some bats shouldn't exist

>>1011771
it's looking right into my soul

In fact, most bats shouldn't exist.

Except this dude. He's cool.

And extremely DERP.

It's a goat.

Stop laughing.

Stop it.