[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/sci/ - Science & Math

View post   
File: 33 KB, 531x411, 1269909265831.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1079590 No.1079590 [Reply] [Original]

AWESOME ANIMALS THREAD GO

>> No.1079606

REAL animals only

>> No.1079605
File: 18 KB, 600x480, spider-that-could-probably-eat-you.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1079605

:L

>> No.1079633

>>1079606
>implying spiders aren't real

>> No.1079653

>>1079633
implying he was responding to spider pic

>> No.1079660

>>1079633
I wish they weren't real, I fucking HATE spiders.

>> No.1079706

>>1079606
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4797025/Fish-has-transparent-head.html
Fucking idiot.

>> No.1079724

>>1079653
>Implying he has the authority to dictate the guidelines of another's thread.

>> No.1079728

>>1079606
>>1079606

Its a barreleye fish, Macropinna microstoma afaik

>> No.1079737
File: 44 KB, 650x415, contrast.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1079737

The fact that you've seen it before
doesn't make it any <span class="math">less[/spoiler] awesome!

(Food caching + probably the most successful arctic land predator = AWESOME)

>> No.1079746
File: 56 KB, 250x366, 1269908854099.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1079746

yupp, thats iron.

>> No.1079758
File: 49 KB, 504x434, funnel-web-spider.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1079758

>>1079660
Haters gonna hate

>> No.1079768
File: 43 KB, 400x332, Hoatzin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1079768

>>1079737
...But, just in case someone complains that I'm just posting foxes because I like them (which is true) and that foxes aren't awesome (which is a lie), I now present you with the Hoatzin.

Hoatzin chicks are born with claws on their wings (where the "wrist" is). When a predator approaches, they escape by dropping into the water of the rivers that they perch above. They can then use the claws to crawl along the bottom until they reach the river bank.

HOWEVER, when the chick gets its flight feathers, those claws fall off and it loses it's underwater abilities. There's an uncanny valley between "chick that drops into the water" and "adult that flies away" during which many birds die because they drop into the water and DROWN. This is actually the leading cause of death for that age group (if I remember correctly).

So, yeah, Hoatzin are awesome.

>> No.1079773

>>1079746
yup, and I consider it one of the creepiest looking animals, disregarding spiders

>> No.1079780

>>1079768
FOR EXAMPLE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKwwdcfc4Ck

Look at that and tell me birds aren't awesome little dinosaurs.

>> No.1079799

>>1079780

omg that is so awesome

>> No.1079874
File: 267 KB, 640x898, anomalocaris.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1079874

why cant those fuckers be still alive

>> No.1079878

>>1079874
Meteors and shit.

>> No.1079950

>>1079878

but they are so awesim

>> No.1079995

did anyone else see that really trippy looking fish swim by on the live feed of the oil spill fixing-attempt? it had some crazy bioluminescence going on, all rainbowy and shit

>> No.1079997
File: 191 KB, 812x749, Secretary Bird.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1079997

Does /sci/ know about Secretary Bird?

>> No.1080011

It can be extinct animals time nao?

Aurochs. Once upon a time, cows were the size of an SUV and they kicked the shit out of entire wolf packs.

Then humans came along and hunted them to extinction like little bitches.

>> No.1080017

>>1079874
The old ones hunted them to extinction.

>> No.1080023

>>1080011
the last individual died of natural causes in captivity in 1627

>> No.1080026

>>1079950
moar liek aweswim amiright? xD

>> No.1080037
File: 198 KB, 800x706, impeyan monal pheasant.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080037

top this shit

>> No.1080045
File: 248 KB, 1300x840, Ancient Dogs and Hyenas.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080045

>>1080011
I should have saved more than this one page from an AWESOME extinct animals thread on /an/. It's from a huge collection of similar images that some guy had.

>> No.1080059
File: 49 KB, 400x300, rhino.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080059

>>1080037
done.

>> No.1080067

how about that bird that can mimic anything, like people and telephones and motorcycles and shit?

>> No.1080080

>>1080023

It doesn't mean that we weren't a major part of their extinction. We have a long history of widdling a species down to next to nothing and then saying "Oh shit, put them in captivity and try to buff up their numbers!"

I long for the days of the proud Auroch, chewin' bubblegum and kicking ass.

>> No.1080081

>>1080067
Lyre Bird

>> No.1080099
File: 66 KB, 528x420, Tasmainian_wolf[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080099

>>1080080
Speaking of which....

>> No.1080115

>>1080080

True, but some species were going to go eventually. Some of them just don't work with humans.

Why the hell are all the best animals in retarted 3rd world countries with poachers etc

>> No.1080141

>>1080080
I wasn't implying we weren't. I just wanted to point out how close a thing it was that we could have preserved it. Just four centuries longer and the species could have been saved.

>> No.1080201
File: 23 KB, 283x195, Arabian Red Fox.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080201

BAMP

This is an Arabian Red Fox, one of over 40 subspecies of Red Fox. Red Foxes are the most widespread member of Carnivora (yes, an even wider range than a Gray Wolf).

>> No.1080218
File: 78 KB, 500x333, wowzers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080218

>> No.1080227

>>1080201

If its called the red fox, why is it grey?

Learn to colour scientists.

>> No.1080241
File: 10 KB, 234x236, Redd_Foxx1-753176.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080241

>>1080227
Shut up, dummy.

>> No.1080257
File: 12 KB, 360x360, TARDIGRADA-strongest-animal-on-earth.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080257

water bear
The one who cant be killed!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

>> No.1080262
File: 98 KB, 899x550, blobfish.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080262

blobfish :|

>> No.1080271

This was a fair competition until tardigrades came up

>> No.1080277
File: 100 KB, 800x600, Lophius piscatorius.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080277

>> No.1080281

>>1080262
Mr. Saturn?

>> No.1080283
File: 39 KB, 500x333, Angler Fish.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080283

>> No.1080279

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia05NGd3-dU

ninjabears are pretty awesome too

>> No.1080294

>>1080283
Don't you just want to kiss it on the mouth.

>> No.1080297

>>1079746
>yupp, thats iron.

That's a nautilus fossil, you fail.

>> No.1080299

>>1080262
KAWAIIII

>> No.1080353
File: 36 KB, 600x450, fond-ecran-grenouilles.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080353

Multiple-headed frog.

>> No.1080362

>>1080353
Frogs all the way down.

>> No.1080366

>>1080241

ba-dum-pish

>> No.1080372
File: 2.29 MB, 1824x1812, Collage_of_Six_Cats-01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080372

>> No.1080385

>>1080297

no, its not.

>> No.1080394
File: 1003 KB, 392x300, hajmun.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080394

animooted

Look at the jaw.

>> No.1080404
File: 77 KB, 797x602, WUT.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080404

>>1080394

>> No.1080412
File: 141 KB, 1440x1121, kitteh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080412

>> No.1080423

>>1080011
wait what the fuck

the last one died 20 kms from me? 400 years ago, but still just 20 kms away

>> No.1080429

Aurochs are extinct?

wtf, I was not aware of that... I feel stupid now

>> No.1080431
File: 131 KB, 500x333, 1274671738314.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080431

>> No.1080449

>>1080429
I wasn't even aware they existed. I don't know who's the stupidest.

>> No.1080453

>>1079746
So Im guessing its a steel type pokemon ? possibly an new evolutionary stage for magcargo ?

>> No.1080473

>>1080297
>>1080453

its Crysomallon squamiferum you motherfuckers...

NO its not a nautlius, they look totally different, and yes the fucker is real.

>> No.1080483
File: 190 KB, 500x333, tumblr_ks58c4GsYy1qzqvm2o1_500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080483

Mantis shrimp, preferably the peacock.

>> No.1080488

>>1080483
well he must be gay

>> No.1080503

>>1080488

he propably has a degree in marin engineering

>> No.1080517

>>1080503
the bug?

I doubt it you probably need thumbs for that

>> No.1080560
File: 27 KB, 400x300, cheech-marin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080560

>>1080503
>marin engineering

Dude, what?

>> No.1080623
File: 26 KB, 350x331, kakapo-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080623

Kakapo
www.youtube.com/watch#!v=9T1vfsHYiKY

>> No.1080631

>>1080560
Cheech Marin engineering.

>> No.1080636

>>1080623
Haha I remember that, it's obviously a candidate for best animal ever!

>> No.1080639
File: 248 KB, 1023x1335, tonguereplacementisopodzv8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080639

>> No.1080652
File: 29 KB, 800x316, 1269187939071.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080652

>>1080394

>> No.1080703

>>1080488
>>1080503

let me educate you niggas about the badassery that fucks your mom sideways while you cry in the corner known as the Chuck Mantis Norris Shrimp

this mutherfucker is known as a thumb splitter to divers. why? because this goddamn shrimp will fuck you up. its punch is so powerful it will break fucking glass tanks.

the punch btw is as fast as, shit-you-not, a fucking bullet.
so before you say this colorful nigga is gay just know it will rip you another asshole and beat you like a manly step dad after he fucks your mom.

>> No.1080716
File: 1.98 MB, 314x228, 1262995920126.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080716

animooted awesome monkey

>> No.1080736

>>1080703
dude, thats gay

>> No.1080743
File: 83 KB, 764x821, caterpie.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080743

You're all retarded, caterpie is the coolest animal of all time.

pic related it's caterpie

>> No.1080950
File: 12 KB, 200x184, Mantis_shrimp_eye[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1080950

>>1080736
They also have trinocular vision and have (I think) 7 different types of cone cells (i.e. color photoreceptors). You have binocular vision and 3 types of cones.

>> No.1081037

>>1080950
aha, aha.

But it is colorfull.

Dude, it is gay!