Archive for June, 2010
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 horrible [ 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 despair [ READ MORE ]
You know that feeling of deep-seated anxiety – the kind that keeps you awake at night thinking black thoughts about life and death and colours your days with crippling dread? It’s called the snakefish. The snakefish is something of a modern Medusa – some sort of hellish aberration that permanently scars all those that set eyes on [ 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 an [ 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 of [ READ MORE ]