A Cheshire frog looming out of the darkness on an overhead tree branch. Definitely more freaky than a Cheshire cat. Lewis Carroll probably made the right choice. ... http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2010/02/cheshire-frog.html...
You might be inclined to mock this monkey. But you wouldn't dare do so to his face. He's a hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas), which makes him among the largest primates on the planet. That makes him your super...
The sun bear is called basindo nan tenggil in Malay, which means he who likes to sit high." That's because, as the smallest of the world's eight bear species, the sun bear is able to clamber high into the ...
... Sometimes caterpillars come with such amazing shapes and colors and spines and fur and toxins and appetites that I wonder why they even bother becoming butterflies. Why give up a life of carefree gluttony for flight and nectar and mating? ... I ...
Behold your new master. Behold his face and be afraid, behold his arms, outstretched to welcome his new subjects. ... ... Or, look at the hind end of a watersnipe fly larvae (Atherix ibis). The presence of the...
The New Guinea Bush Frog (Asterophrys turpicola) is a frog after my own heart. Native to Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, this frog isn't a pushover. ... ... If it's threatened, it will inflate itself and gape its mouth--all the better to expo...
Are Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs really supposed to get this big in captivity? This one is housed at the Granby Zoo in Quebec, Canada, so I assume it's being properly cared for. Maybe I assume too much... ... ... I once had a friend (I know, hard to ...
I can't seem to find much out about the turtle frog (Myobatrachus gouldii) of South Western Australia. It seems as though it feeds on termites and lives in open woodlands and scrub plains. ... ... ... ... ....
Ever wondered what would happen if a jellyfish mated with a sea star? I haven't. But if I had, this is probably what I would have come up with: a large, gelatinous star. This echinoderm, is known as the hymenaster sea star, or giant slime star, and i...
... Link: bild.de ... Science Buzz This goat was born with a head that looks like that of a human baby. CREEPY. Pretty gross. It's like an over-ripe Kiwi in there....
Many species of deep ocean fish have special adaptations to living in extremely high pressure, low light conditions. Viper fish (Mesopelagic - found at 80-1600 meters - about a mile down) are some of ...
The Javan Lutung, Trachypithecus auratus also known as the Ebony Lutung and Javan Langur, is an Old World monkey from the Colobinae subfamily. It is most commonly glossy black with a brownish tinge to its legs...
I'm using some detective work here, since I'm never too sure whether I'm looking at a llama or alpaca (or a vicuna, or a guanaco). But I'm guessing this is an alpaca, because it was just sheered (alpacas are primarily raised for their fleece). I'm al...
Ever wonder what was beneath a pig's snout? Well, now you know. A dentist's dream,an HMO's nightmare, and enough tusk to keep my fingers on this side of the fence. ... Text source ... Photo source: Paco Cabeza-Lopez ... ... ... ...
... Aye-aye ... ... Weirdness factor: Where to start? The aye-aye is a kind of lemur, with large round ears that rotate independently. How does it eat? There are no woodpeckers in Mad...
The wrinkle-faced bat, known to be frugivorous despite being closely related to the vampire bat, has long been known for its abominable face. But it's the shape of the skull that has puzzled researchers. ... ...
... These guys are so wacked out the people who discovered them can't even identify them. Sweet.SAFETY LEVEL: Guilty until proven innocent. The top one looks like a squid hybri...
So take a good look at my face ... My nasal flap looks out of place ... It's my sella meant to facilitate ... Hearing far away objects ... ... The above is a little known additional verse to Smokey Robinson's beloved ... Tracks of My Tears. It was h...
Whale killed by deformed tongue ... The carcass of a humback whale lies on an Alaskan beach. Scientists believe its death was down to its enormous deformed tongue, the size of a small car. What caused the grotesque sw...
What lurked in the depths, now is going to haunt your boat. ... ... Be careful what you hook up. Aside from picking some vicious industrial garbage, you can bring to the surface some strange and...
There are 65 species of possums worldwide, but only one is native to North America: Didelphis virginiana, aka the Virginia opossum. Possums get their common name from the Algonquin name for them: apasam, which ...
Horses are usually beautiful creatures, but there are a few out there that are ugly enough to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Horse lovers spend so much time pouring over an endless supply of beautiful horse pictures, so I thought Id...
