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| Weird Animals | |
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| Topic Started: Aug 19 2013, 04:34 PM (34,642 Views) | |
| Ignacio | Aug 19 2013, 04:34 PM Post #1 |
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So i was reading about this snake in facebook page called "Evolution" and i wanted to share it with you because i found it to be really interesting and i never seen it before. I was going to post this in the news and info section, but it isn't really a world new, so i figured this section was more appropriate for it. Then i thought, why not having a topic for this kind of things? So if you have info on a weird, strange or peculiar animal that you want to share, post it here. I began with.... Pseudocerastes urarachnoides The Spider-tailed viper ![]() [/center] Edited by Ignacio, Aug 19 2013, 04:35 PM.
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| Bigwhale | Aug 20 2013, 09:09 AM Post #2 |
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Yep, the fantastic arachnid tailed snake . Fortunately Kiwi made a Silhouette of one
Edited by Bigwhale, Aug 20 2013, 09:09 AM.
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| philly | Aug 20 2013, 09:15 AM Post #3 |
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Very weird critter, but also awesome.
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| hananas59 | Aug 20 2013, 09:24 AM Post #4 |
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Evolving creatures from earth.
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Such an awesome snake I actually never heard about it ... |
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| CyborgIguana | Aug 20 2013, 09:46 AM Post #5 |
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Cool snake, never heard of it before. Though to me its tail looks more like that of an ankylosaur than of a spider. |
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| Bigwhale | Aug 20 2013, 11:18 AM Post #6 |
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Now we need an Azhdarchid tailed snake! JK *think my own joke is not funny ._. *
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| Swimming Spaghetti Monster | Aug 24 2013, 04:52 PM Post #7 |
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Weird.BTW, some time ago I have found site that is full of these strange animals: http://www.realmonstrosities.com/ |
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| Ignacio | Aug 24 2013, 04:58 PM Post #8 |
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That is a cool page! My idea with this topic is that everyone that finds a weird animal can share information about it here That seems to be a nice source of material
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| Mathius Tyra | Aug 25 2013, 12:20 AM Post #9 |
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life
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Here I found another weird animal. Elepahnt Mosquito (Toxorhynchites sp.) The Tyrannosaurus of mosquito's world ![]() Adult Elephant Mosquito Toxorhynchites, also called "elephant mosquito", is a cosmopolitan genus of mosquitoes. The genus includes the largest known species of mosquito, and it is among the few kinds of mosquito that do not consume blood. The adults subsist on carbohydrate-rich materials, such as honeydew, or saps and juices from damaged plants, refuse, fruit, and nectar. ![]() Larvae, compare to the larvae of Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti. The larvae of Toxorhynchites prey on the larvae of other mosquitoes and similar nektonic prey. In this respect, they contrast with blood-sucking species of mosquitoes. Toxorhynchites larvae live on a protein- and fat-rich diet of aquatic animals such as mosquito larvae. They have no need to risk their lives sucking blood in adulthood, having already accumulated the necessary materials for oogenesis and vitellogenesis. ![]() Munching!!! Most species occur in forests. The larvae of one jungle variety, Toxorhynchites splendens, consume larvae of other mosquito species occurring in tree crevices, particularly Aedes aegypti. The adults of these mosquitoes are larger than Aedes and are harmless to humans. Unlike Toxorhynchites mosquitoes, detritus feeder mosquitoe female larvae rely on blood meals to produce eggs more plentifully than a diet of nectar would permit. And even though blood sucking is a risky strategy that entails more casualties, and they could in principle subsist on nectar and the like as their males generally do, the risk is outweighed on average by the increase in the number and size of yolk-rich eggs that such protein-rich food permit. Disease vector or toxin control researchers have suggested that Toxorhynchites mosquitoes be introduced to areas outside their natural range in order to fight dengue fever. Source by Wikipedia and random pictures on the internet. Edited by Mathius Tyra, Aug 25 2013, 12:21 AM.
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| Jules | Aug 25 2013, 04:47 AM Post #10 |
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo
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Hell yeah, giant harmless mosquito. Are we allowed to do extinct animals too ? |
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| Bigwhale | Aug 25 2013, 05:33 AM Post #11 |
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If yes Drepanosaurus or a Andrewsarchus is quite one of them. |
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| Jules | Aug 25 2013, 05:40 AM Post #12 |
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo
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Nope, I was thinking about some Pterosaurs. |
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| Furka | Aug 25 2013, 05:43 AM Post #13 |
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there's plenty of weird extinct critters: Diplocaulus, all the various shark (helicoprion, stetacanthus, xenacanthus ...), sea scorpions, epidexipteryx ... |
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| Swimming Spaghetti Monster | Aug 25 2013, 09:58 AM Post #14 |
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So maybe weirdness in pure form?Thalassocnus, not only giant sloth, but also marine!![]() It lived in late miocene & pliocene Peru and Chile at coasts and ate seagrass similar to today marine iguana.Probably it evolved like this because it lived near deserts, so all food was in the sea.He used his claws both to reap underwater plants and to anchor itself to the seafloor when feeding.First species lived in shallows, but new, younger species preferred deeper waters. |
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| Omenoor | Aug 25 2013, 10:01 AM Post #15 |
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Lol, it looks like giant prehistoric Sea Otter combined with Sloth
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. Fortunately Kiwi made a Silhouette of one




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