Archive for January, 2010
Wow. Just wow. If you’ve ever seen a nose like this one that didn’t belong to this furry, ginger Bergerac then you’ve really lived. This, my friends, is the Proboscis Monkey – sometimes known as the Long-nosed Monkey (no shit). The male Proboscis likes to live surrounded by his harem of giant-conked lovers in an idyllic little [ 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 looks [ READ MORE ]
The Naked Mole Rat is also known as the Sand Puppy, but I’m yet to figure out why that is. This horrible rodent is straight out of a children’s horror story, being essentially just tooth and skin. Experts even say that the Naked Mole Rat doesn’t feel any pain, so good luck sending your cat after [ READ MORE ]
If you were asked to name it, I doubt you come could up with anything more appropriate for this critter than Red-lipped Batfish, apart from Miserable Clown-faced Cornish Pasty Fish perhaps, but the lucky people whose job it is to name fish went with the former. Shame. This fish spends its days swanning around on the [ READ MORE ]
If you’re going to be as repulsive as a hagfish, then you’d better have four hearts and two brains to make up for it. That’s what this ugly little thing has to boast in exchange for an inside out face. It’s also the only creature that has a skull, but no spine. Ever the socialite, this fish [ READ MORE ]