Archive for the ‘ Animals ’ Category
This is a type of salamander. Would you say it was lacking something? If you think it lacks arms and legs, you’d be right, but that isn’t its main deficiency. This particular salamander has omitted to grow something else that most of us find rather important. This is the lungless salamander and that is not [ READ MORE ]
Or is it… well… I don’t know really. It doesn’t look much like anything – least of all a head. Even a hammerhead shark pays lip service to head design convention by having a mouth and fairly easily identifiable eyes. Consider as well that the hammerhead shark is an animal that takes its name from [ READ MORE ]
Awww. You’re cute. Look at your tiny little eyes and your sweet little nose. But why are you wearing a baseball cap? Come on; take it off….oh god! No! What the hell are those massive flaps poking out from the side of your head?!?!… That’s how I imagine my first meeting with a Jerboa; or [ READ MORE ]
I like pigs. And I like the sea. I do not, however, like Seapigs. I literally don’t even know where to begin with this creature, which apparently is a type of sea cucumber. Don’t question why, where or how; it just is alright? The only reasonable explanation is that God had finished making all the [ READ MORE ]
Seriously. What is the point? Well; turns out, there isn’t much of one actually. Because the Giant Soft-Shelled Turtle spends most of its time buried, lying completely still with only its nose and mouth sticking out of the sand. Brilliant. Their existence is so pathetic that I actually can’t be bothered to talk about it. [ READ MORE ]
‘Ooh, look at this frill necked dress. I might try it on.’ That is a sentence that I am happy to hear the words ‘frill necked’ in. I’m not so happy about ‘frill necked lizard’. Guess where this animal got its name? Go on, I bet you can’t. Because of its frilly neck you say? [ READ MORE ]
Turbellarians are a strange bunch, even for a species of flatworm. What makes them slightly odder than their other flatworm cousins is the fact that they’re all hermaphrodites who use their penises (of which they have two) as swords when they mate. In one of the most aggressive forms of mating I can recall, these [ READ MORE ]
Oh wait. How embarrassing. I mixed up my holiday snaps with my Giant Leaf Tailed Gecko snaps. I hate it when that happens. Funny how they chose the vaguely leafy tail as the chief characteristic of this particular Gecko. Why not the Giant Raspberry Ripple Eyed Gecko, or the Massive Gobbed Acid Trip Gecko? I [ READ MORE ]
The pornographic version of Alien vs Predator didn’t come out at the cinema, probably because it involved a horrible scene resulting in the conception of this silver-eyed monstrosity. Actually, although it resembles Alien and Predator’s gruesome lovechild, this is just your run-of-the-mill giant isopod. The only difference between a giant isopod and the fruit of [ READ MORE ]
No. It isn’t. Nor is it not one of those things that you’re supposed to twat with a mallet in Whack Attack – if you did that you’d be squashing one of the rarest kinds of octopus in the big blue sea, the Dumbo Octopus. Why Dumbo? No other reason than that biologists think it [ READ MORE ]