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The ichneumon wasp is a deeply unpleasant character. Deeply, deeply unpleasant. No-one likes wasps. No-one sees the point in them. But after reading what follows, this particular wasp will slump even further in your estimation. The ichneumon injects its eggs into a victim, which is usually a caterpillar. It then paralyses the caterpillar and slowly [ READ MORE ]
It doesn’t seem fair that the creature with the largest penis relative to its body size should be a hermaphrodite. That’s just greedy. Barnacles have giant schlongs on account of the fact that they don’t leave their shells to mate, meaning the old chap has to venture out on his own. They also have testes [ READ MORE ]
This creature doesn’t look particularly weird and it’s quite well-known as well, so why feature it? Well, I want you to spend a little bit of time giving some serious thought the dung beetle’s diet. This is an animal that voluntarily consumes excrement. Eating faeces is, by anyone’s standards, utterly disgusting. You are completely depraved [ READ MORE ]
You know how it is: you’re floating around in the dark, minding your own business, when suddenly you’re confronted by the miserable mush of Satan himself, looking a touch suicidal about his affairs. That’s what life is generally like if you happen to share the same bit of murky water with the vampire squid. This [ READ MORE ]
Well apparently he left it behind, perhaps as a little token of appreciation to Elliott and the other kids. Strange that he left it in Cuba, but then you always suspected that his own race was made up of quite partisan socialists. Guess that’s why he missed home so much. No, of course this isn’t [ READ MORE ]
A lot of spleen has been vented in the direction of the fox lately. First we took away its right to thoroughly take the piss out of toffs on horseback and their packs of crazed hounds, and now we’re accusing it of breaking and entering and GBH. Part of me wants to testify in favour [ READ MORE ]
The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world. The largest can come in at about 6 meters and has tentacles over 50 meters long. [ READ MORE ]
OK, so it’s not really an animal in its own right, but it is pretty amazing non the less.. This poor little ant has been infected with Cordyceps Fungus, it transfers itself though spores from host to host, killing any that come into contact with it. Whats interesting is that once infected, the ant becomes [ READ MORE ]
The thing about coconuts is that they are really quite tough to get into.. you’d need to be a pretty bag animal to make coconuts your main form of sustenance. So that’s why the coconut crab is a whopping foot and a half long with pincers that look like they could snap you in two. [ READ MORE ]
This delightful little monster is the Star Nosed Mole, who’s amazing nose can feel and taste unlike any other creature in the world. It needs this amazing nose because it’s more or less completely blind. The star nosed mole also has the title of the fastest eater, identifying edible food within 0.1 of a second.. [ READ MORE ]