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Weird Animals
Topic Started: Aug 19 2013, 04:34 PM (34,623 Views)
Ignacio
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Giant Prickly Stick Insect (Extatosoma tiaratum)

Frome where? Australia of course xD
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Furka
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Australia has some of the best critters on the plant.
Actually I was extremely surprised when I learned that potoos aren't Australians xD
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Ignacio
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Yep, they are mostly sudamerican births. Apparently there are a lot of species in my country. I never seen one in the wild though.
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Swimming Spaghetti Monster
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1011_051011_spider_vampire.html
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Lazardi
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Another pics of arthropods under electron microscope:

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Edited by Lazardi, Mar 9 2014, 01:23 AM.
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Not exactly a weird animals.
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Ignacio
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They are to date the only animals known to be able to survive in the vacuum of space. They can also survive doses of ionizing radiation that would kill a human, go without food or water for ten years and survive temperatures almost down to absolute zero. They can also completely dry out, to the point where they're just 3% water, and then rehydrate and happily carry on their life cycle.
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Zoocrazy
Mar 9 2014, 10:22 AM
go without food or water for ten years
Not exactly unique though, Olm can survive without food for 10 years aswell.

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Ignacio
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Well i didn't write the article i just copy pasted the info :P
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Stephen
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Mar 9 2014, 10:22 AM
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They are to date the only animals known to be able to survive in the vacuum of space. They can also survive doses of ionizing radiation that would kill a human, go without food or water for ten years and survive temperatures almost down to absolute zero. They can also completely dry out, to the point where they're just 3% water, and then rehydrate and happily carry on their life cycle.
Is this from the IFLS page on facebook? I saw it as well :P
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Jules
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Yeah, I follow it too :P
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Ignacio
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Yes it is xD
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Ignacio
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Article: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sea-anemones-are-half-animal-half-plant

So sea anemones are half plan, half animals genetically speaking.
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Celebochoerus heekereni, a Pleistocene pig from Sulawesi/Celebes island of Indonesia:

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That's definately the country of crazy pigs ...
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