Guest ZeTomes Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Ze Tomes, I give you the bird. Isn't this birdy the real Road Runner? (I din't know at all there was a familly called sagitarius) Thanks for the astrological secretary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZeTomes Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 (edited) To me one of the most improbable examples of mimicry is the Saber-toothed blenny. It looks like a Cleaner wrasse. acts like a Cleaner wrasse and bites like a little shark. Wow! It really resembles me of something... politics propaganda? Edited June 2, 2011 by ZeTomes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LAL Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/070125-glowing-spiders.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FuriousGeorge Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 I would like to give a shout out to some incredible bacteria. Siberian Actinobacteria, 400,000-600,000 year old bacteria found alive in permafrost. And if it can be verified and accepted, Bacillus permians found in ancient sea salt were revived after being in suspended animation for 250 million years. Pretty crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobZenor Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Musk Deer from the Himalayas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobZenor Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Another from the Star Wars Bar scene the star nosed mole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZeTomes Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 (edited) I would like to give a shout out to some incredible bacteria. Siberian Actinobacteria, 400,000-600,000 year old bacteria found alive in permafrost. And if it can be verified and accepted, Bacillus permians found in ancient sea salt were revived after being in suspended animation for 250 million years. Pretty crazy. Fantastic! I wonder what secrets lake Vostok might hide or even more strange, Europa! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maQhn96AhuI Edited June 3, 2011 by ZeTomes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZeTomes Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 (edited) Musk Deer from the Himalayas And I thinking it was extinct! Edited June 3, 2011 by ZeTomes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobZenor Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 (edited) They are threatened because their musk is so valuable to perfume makers but they are still around. Its skull does look like a recently extinct smilodon but much smaller. Edited June 3, 2011 by BobZenor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZeTomes Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 (edited) They are threatened because their musk is so valuable to perfume makers but they are still around. Its skull does look like a recently extinct smilodon but much smaller. So perfume industry uses this animal's gland (which serves to attract mates) not only for essence basing, but also for human's synthetic atraction, with the single detail that this animals don't get throught the process of extraction alive... another reason for myself continue to not using perfumes. What's the reason for their long teeth? ---- Actualization: The Siberian musk deer is classified as threatened by the IUCN. It is hunted for its musk gland, which fetches prices as high as $45,000 per kilogram. Only a few tens of grams can be extracted from an adult male. It is possible to remove the gland without killing the deer, but this is seldom done. Edited June 3, 2011 by ZeTomes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitakaze Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Musk deer are hilarious to look at... They're actually not even true deer, but from a family of animals likely ancestral to cervids. Here's a pic of a male orangutan that made me do a double-take and I thought was photoshopped at first glance... It looks like Chet from Weird Science with hair. Like, just a big hairy poo with a face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZeTomes Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 (edited) As this thread is getting more and more interesting with your participation, in pursuit of that interest, I ask you to add more data to your posts making them more complete and interactive The main subjects inherent to the posts are technical data, peculiarities, visual data and myths or legends (in case exist or were found). One species (or all sub-species) for post Thank you for contributing! Cheers all (knock us out with you impossible creature) Edited June 3, 2011 by ZeTomes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZeTomes Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 (edited) Here's a pic of a male orangutan that made me do a double-take and I thought was photoshopped at first glance... It looks like an american indian head of a totem, or a wood carving. I wonder why this posture - i and how it could be represented in symbolic mythology. Can you put the link? Edited June 3, 2011 by ZeTomes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RayG Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 How about a critter this guy describes as "a blend of silverfish, horseshoe crabs, catfish and alien facehuggers"? Triops. Living fossils dating back millions of years. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Class: Branchiopoda Order: Notostraca Family: Triopsidae Genus: Triops Grow your own. My daughter did. They're downright prehistoric. RayG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZeTomes Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 How about a critter this guy describes as "a blend of silverfish, horseshoe crabs, catfish and alien facehuggers"? my next one was going to be this one. Magnificient! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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