Animals you can't believe are real

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>>2366984
The maned wolf, which neither has a mane nor is a wolf. Does sound like something right out of a nightmare though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBSGEl-yB7A

Why does that thing have fangs again?

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These weird things. I'm still not 100% convinced they aren't a bad photoshop.

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>>2366984
The Jerboa is definitely up there. I always thought this thing looked like a pokemon.

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>>2366987
god accidentally checked the wrong box while designing this one and just decided "fuck it" and stuck it in asia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yLkb65H98

>>2366989
Well, Raichu DOES have similarities to it

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>>2366984
posting deep sea creatures is basically cheating, but still, the goblin shark has to be mentioned.

>>2366990
That's not a deer, that's an inbred capibara.

humans

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>>2366986

HOLY FUCK, my doggo I had years ago sounded almost EXACTLY THE SAME.

But she snapped her muzzle shut way faster after each bark and therefore made the end sound sharper and more abrupt but really, the sound was really damn close.
I think it doesn't sound nightmarish. I think it sounds fucking awesome and she did it when someone came too close to our house at night and barked the fuckers away.

Not a photo of her but kinda looked like this.

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The Muntjac. Their horns look like fucking spider fangs.

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>>2366998
>the classic grey aliens are lanky, pale skinned hairless creatures with big heads and eyes, with technology and intellects beyond our comprehension.
>tfw aliens are to us what we are to apes/dogs/etc

>>2367000
Was your dog a basenji

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>>2366988
They look like a bad CGI animal from one of those prehistoric creature documentaries.

>>2366988
>>2367007
the actually look like a character from courage the cowardly dog

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>>2366984

OP, posters like you make /an/ my blessing, and I thank you. I see things here I never knew existed on my planet.

/An/ makes my world bigger, and I am thankful.

Here is the first nudibranch I ever saw, right here on /an/. I didnt know about them then or that there were so many types.

>>2366988
>>2367007
>>2367011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niOYTdD2aao

wtf is this. the camera clearly glitches out while looking at this thing at 0:56 1:34 and 1:59

I smell a conspiracy.

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The andean cat. There was little proof this cat existed until 1998. It's so rare I could only find one instance of it being recorded on video.
Most evidence of it is caught from trail cams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LrsDhY-ojw

>>2367020

The variety and distribution of felines continues to amaze me. Ty.

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Not my favorite. Uakaris and red pandas.

>>2367004
A Podenco. It's a quite old Spanish breed.

>>2367020
That video was actually incredibly interesting. I had no idea this species existed.

Questions:
Why did he like that rock so much?
What was that large rodent that kept popping up? It looks like a cross between a mara and a chinchilla
Do you think he was hunting said rodent?

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>>2367028
So after like 3 seconds of research I found out it's a viscacha. The diversity of the rodent family is something to behold, even after all my research I'm still finding new species

I don't know why, but these things kinda creepy me out a bit for some reason. I think maybe it's because a lot of the Google image results remind me of those weird jackalope pictures I saw online as a kid

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>>2367029
This is an example, btw. I don't know why but this shit really creeps me out for some reason

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>>2367029

>>2366852

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>>2366989
would you believe this thing isn't a bird? its a fucking rodent.

>>2367028
There are two different cat species caught in the video. The cat a 3:00 is a pampas cat, you can see it has much smaller, rosette markings. Since the two species have overlapping territories I imagine they were marking over each others scent.

>>2367037
That makes sense. I actually went back and watched it again, the two are actually quite hard to tell apart, especially at night

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While we're on the topic of cats; here's the rusted-spotted cat. It is the worlds smallest cat species and is smaller that a domestic cat.

>>2367003
Doesn't help we're pretty much neotomic apes. Greys could be neotomic humans from the future, but instead of looking like babies they look like fetuses.

>>2367047
the eyes make it like some normie postcard photoshop

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Pyura chilensis is a tunicate that resembles a mass of organs inside a rock. It is often found in dense aggregations in the intertidal and subtidal coast of Chile and Peru. It is a filter feeder that eats by sucking in seawater and filtering out microorganisms.

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Jacob Sheep

The unicorn, mermaids, ligers all crank my cranium. But the one that really rattles my raisins is the jackalope. How the heck can it fit in a burrows with the antlers?

>>2366987
Deer species that don't have antlers have fangs instead.

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>>2366984
Saiga antelopes lowkey resemble horned macrauchenias.

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Seriously what the fuck

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>>2367133
Saigas really look like they should have died out at the end of the ice age. They somehow survived though, only to now be wiped out by disease.

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>>2366984
Hummingbird Hawk Moth
Seriously these things look like something outta some fairy tale

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>>2366984
Bacteriophages tho. Microscopic zombie robots things.

>>2366986
>>2366992
>>2367001
>>2367134
normie tier

>>2366988
>>2366989
quite odd

>>2367115
666

>>2367135
>>2367133
what the fucking fuck

>>2367012
>>2367020
>>2367047
>>2367052
interesting

>>2367141
very nice/10

>>2367264
S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-SMASHED

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It looks like one of those shitty fake taxidermy things.

>>2367147
why would you do this?

>>2366986
Thats a fox

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I know most people are familiar with them but these things are strange as furk.

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>Elysia chlorotica is a partially solar-powered slug that sequesters and retains active chloroplasts from the Vaucheria litorea algae it eats.

Read more: http://www.strangeanimals.info/2014/10/four-photosynthetic-like-animals.html#ixzz4fTH4ONFM

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Thicc monkeys.

>>2367013
>that description at the 01:00 mark
Man I think "perpetually bored" is a better description

>>2367266
The only one I didn't know of, thanks

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I know that toucans exist because i live in the HUE monkey country and i've seen some, but they look like someone took a 5 years old's drawing of a generic bird and gave life to it.

>>2367284
I hate these disgusting freaks

>>2367264
were they trying to breed a real-life venusaur

>>2366984
Are you saying sabre-toothed deer are real? What?

>>2367143
those things arent even alive, fuck off

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>>2367271
Striking resemblance

>>2367276
It absolutely isn't, educate yourself dumbass

>>2367358
yes, they're called water dear. see >>2366990

>>2367358
Yes they are real. Read the thread.

>>2367029
vizcachas are delicious yo, nothing to fear about them

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>>2367328

ya almost got away with it

almost

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>>2367284

They are so very sensitive to vibrations, its amazing.

>>2367334

They've never done anything to hurt you and live in peace. They're one of God's creatures and you'll show some respect.

>>2367408
I'm getting really turned on right now...

>>2367134
Australia's freshwater carnivores were too shit to reduce Platypus ancestors to extinction.

>>2367293
I am curious, since humans have the biggest primate dicks do baboon females get more pleasure from human dicks than baboon ones?

>>2367460
You think that look she's giving to the cameraman is an accident? Baboons crave the BHC.

>>2367276
Stupid faggot.
http://www.endangeredwolfcenter.org/educational-resources/maned-wolf/

>>2366984
>secretarybird
holy shit what in the hell?

>>2367141
These are the dandiest little critters on the face of the earth. i love seeing them in my garden

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I love Bee Flies. These are the best, but the Black-Tailed Bee Fly in North American is also cute.

>>2367147
autism

>>2367630

That made me think of a daffy honeybee I had to escort out of the house yesterday. When bees act weird, i worry that they are sick.

Was there ever any final decision on colony collapse causes? Did it stop?

The last I heard was that it was neo-nicitinoids in pesticide.

I can look it up, but I thought you guys could give me the upshot since so many of you are really on the ball with this stuff, naturally (no pun intended)

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I have one of these guys living in my neighborhood. First time I saw it, I thought it was a giant cat for a few seconds. Pretty cool looking red fox mutant.

>>2367643

wow, that is unique. I didnt know foxes had such variety

>>2367020
>cate knows camera is looking at it
>plays around looking cute
Dang cates

>>2367637
It's ongoing. No determination of the specific cause, but I think that it's it's reasonable to attribute it to a variety of stressors stemming from humans rapidly changing the ecology of the whole world.

>>2367530
Fake. I saw these posted on /vp/, you can't fool me.

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>>2367662

>>2367662
They're not fake you clown.

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>>2366984
Literally how can something this cancerous exist??

>>2367007
>Just take picture of animal
>So retarded looking it's an instant meme

>>2367007
fucking japs

>>2367010
Didn't even realize these existed.

>>2367122
If ligers activate your almonds, wait until you read about Liligers. Apparently in 2012 a female liger gave birth to four female cubs after mating with a lion.

>>2367662
Well, Cutiefly is based on SOMEthing

>>2367697
>liger gave birth
Hold the fuck up

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There's these up to 40 foot long dolphin looking motherfuckers.

This is a real neat thread

>>2367654
Yeah, it's pretty weird. The way they move looks really surreal without the typical fur obscuring their forms. Apparently it's a rare mutation where all but the undercoat fur is absent. I wonder if it could be a beneficial adaptation if the climate gets much warmer. Red foxes are a really pervasive, successful species. Recently in my area there has been a wild rabbit population boom. Now several years in there are a lot more foxes. I suppose that increased my odds of seeing the mutation.

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>>2367654
Foxes that have been selectively bred on fur farms have a whole range of colour mutations too.

>>2367769
Heh, that made me think the Samson mutation would be a beneficial anti-furrier adaptation.

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Aardwolves are pretty cool.

>>2367779
>tfw you just got booped

>>2367675
A cute

>>2367654
>>2367643
It's not a mutant, it just has mange.

>>2367850
Nevermind I'm completely fucking wrong

>>2367052

What's the fucking point?

>>2367007
It's a Tibetan Fox

Hagfish?

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>>2366988
>>2367007
Reminds me of pic related

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At first glance they dont look like anything special until I remember that their closest biological relative is the elephant.

>>2367688
>tibet
>japan

>>2367879
They look like qt's

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>>2367855
I ask myself the same question every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_universe

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>>2367030
Jackalopes are real, however, they are just normal rabbits with a terrible disease that normally ends up killing them; usually from starvation. Some will look like they have horns/antlers on top, but most just look like Cthulhu.

>>2367135
Wasn't one of those on one of the 1-3 star wars movies?

>>2367872
I don't understand what comparison you're trying to make here. That they're both foxes? Wow, go you.

>>2367135
Fuck. More than a third of them got wiped out at once last year, right? A disease or something. R.I.P.

>>2368006
I think God forgot about them and just now realised they're not supposed to be here.

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I found this dead mole on my driveway recently. it looks like a crow pecked it to death. peck marks on its back. I flipped it over with a rake while examining it.

they are really weird looking things. and their way of life is very unusual.

>>2368022
>tfw when I was a kid a wanted to keep a pet mole in a fish take full of dirt.

>>2366986
Lobo guará, from Brazil

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>>2366984
Giraffes

I mean they are one of the animals that children are first shown, like elephants and cows, but god damn, really take a minute to look at these things. Absurdly long necks, absurdly long legs. 2 "horns" that are not horns. A color pattern that looks like a dried out mud flat. And, have you ever seen one of these things take a drink of water? Holy shit.

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>>2368133

>>2368055
You can still do that. Only you design it like a Formicarium/ant farm, but sideways with grass and plants on top.

>>2368133

Good point.

>>2368134
Graceful.

>>2367991
that's fucking disgusting

>>2367036

This is not a real animal reverse image search it

>>2368338
I did. It looks pretty real to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHMo3EBr6t4

>>2368392
Oh god dang they're really cute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUO4PCDJL50

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>not a single post about pangolins
Cum on guys

>>2368396
I'd rather not.

>>2367266
I would like to fuck that

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>>2367927
What do I search if I want more of this image.

>>2368396
pangolins aren't strange. you just want an excuse to parade your meme animal around

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>>2368134

>>2367686
i don't know anon maybe you should ask your question to yourself

>>2368748
>Post animals that look like something made up for a fictional setting. They don't have to be huge or look all that crazy, just neat animals that most people have never heard of.

Wew ladeeh

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Everyone knows what a hermit crab is but can we take a moment to acknowledge how freaky they are without a shell

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I've always felt that possums look like they don't belong. They almost look like the giant rats that are often low level RPG enemies.

>>2369397
Possums are fucking scary. I fear little, but possums are nightmarish, especially when you accidentally walk into one and it gives you the look.

>>2369397
They don't belong. They're the only marsupial that doesn't live in Australia.

>>2367643
is it weird that i think this sick animal looks somewhat beautiful and elegant ?

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Sea snakes. They blew my mind when I found out about them as a kid.

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And of course the dumbest fish on earth.

>>2368392
I wanna crush that sleepy wittle face in my palm

>>2367052
wikiseba

>>2368395
Their head is nearly 50% of their body. No wonder they need giant feet.

>>2369429

I remember the first time i saw one of these things in the wild, my little 12 year old brain couldn't handle it.

>tfw when dad sold the boat last year
>tfw when working as government lawyer means i won't be able to by a boat for 10 years

>>2366986

fucking slenderfox

i always thought Narwhals were mythological, only two places I ever heard of them was reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and the beginning of Elf

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>>2367025

That thing has a spaceship buried somewhere in the Amazon.

>>2367036

CA-UTE.

>>2367052

This is literally leftovers: the animal. This is what nature makes life out of when there's no reason for it to exist, and limited resources. It's the equivalent of a doodle in the margin of your bio notes. Not sure why it needs that camouflage, it's not even worth killing.

>>2367134

All kinds of what, especially because it's a warm-blooded egg-laying mammal.

>>2367293

T H I C C

>>2367328

I find Brazilians equally frightening.

>>2367630

It's cheating if you post insects, every single one of them is a horrid aberration

>>2368022

Moles are the saddest creatures alive. Sadder than sloths, at least they get to feel the sun now and then. A mole's life is just cold, dark, dampness. Alone, crawling through an endless sea of dirt and filthy, eating insects and struggling to exist. It's almost as depressing as my life.

>>2369429

whatthefuckisthat.wmv

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mangolista!!!! v. tasty

>>2368474
what are you, some kind of fag?

>>2367630
Mantises are the GOAT bug.

>>2368022
F

>>2368133
I was gonna post this

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM98Vencdwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C3sCm1fzSI

>>2370087
But that's not a mantis.

>>2367266
What the fuck am i looking at
Is this even an animal?

>>2367287
Finally my animal-plant hybrid dream has come true.

>>2367630
Scizor used Bullet Punch!

>>2370222
>checked
If I had a potoo I would name him chip.
Potoo chip.

>>2367779
Qt

>>2368396
I wish these things were bigger

>>2369374
Lol they curl up like a snail
Probably to fit the shell better

>>2369417
Wrong. There are more marsupials in the Americas.

>>2367147
i feel like in a vp fakemon thread

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floppy snek

>>2370069
Why the fuck would you even breed this to existence
Poor thing doesn't even know of it should do oink or do baah

>>2370047
except they like crawling through dirt and they don't give a shit about the sun. stop anthropomorphizing them

>>2369280
>never heard of
everybody and their mothers know what a pangolin is because everyone and their mothers thinks that nobody else knows what a pangolin is so they constantly tell everyone and their mothers about pangolins

>>2370278
>everybody and their mothers know what a pangolin is
No

>>2370279
yes they fucking do. especially on this board. maybe you live in a retard country

>>2370280
>People on a board dedicated to animals and nature might know about this obscure animal
They are far from well known, stop being such a faggot.

>>2370286
everybody in the world knows what they are because they are so unique, and because of sandslash. stop being delusional. your little special snowflake animal isn't special

>>2370278
>>2370280
>>2370288
calm down. tons of animals in this thread are plenty known, like the giraffe. doesn't mean you can't talk about them. just let people be free. peace man

>>2370288
>everybody in the world knows what they are because they are so unique, and because of sandslash.
>sandsplash
Do you really need me to point out why you are a fucking idiot, or do you think you can try to put it together
>your special snowflake animal
Not even that poster. I'm just calling you out on your bullshit because you are wrong.
A pangolin is an animal that most people have never even heard of, or can recognize and has every right to be ITT.
Fuck your irrelevant video games or cartoons, or whatever it is you're trying to justify your ignorance with.

>>2370303
quagsire

>>2370298
Everyone over 22 knows what a pangolin is.

What's up with this fight? Don't usually see violence posting here. Chill the fuck out.

>>2370298
>1st gen pokemon
>irrelevant
everybody knows what it is
>>2370295
that's because giraffe fit into the "really strange" category whereas the pangolin poster tried to pass of pangolins as obscure

>>2370306
>don't usually see "violence posting" here
you must be new

>>2367758
Beaked whales are pretty obscure for cetaceans. I wish they got more shine, but that's probably a good thing that they don't since they're not endangered.

>>2368022
> it looks like a crow pecked it to death
Wouldn't it be more plausible to assume a crow scavenged it after it died from some other cause? Rip in peace.

>>2370306
>>2370312
/an/ stands for Argues Nonstop, not Animals and Nature
>1st gen Pokémon so EVERYONE knows what it is
Kek, whatever.

>>2370312
>that's because giraffe fit into the "really strange" category whereas the pangolin poster tried to pass of pangolins as obscure
no he just tried to pass is as strange looking, that's all
stop posting please

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I mean just look at it. It's a bird but it behaves and acts more as if it were a mammal.

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>>2369404
>especially when you accidentally walk into one and it gives you the look.

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>>2370262
>Why the fuck would you even breed this to existence
Because they gain weight like champs

>>2370367
but what's with the wool tho

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Not a worm, not a snake, not a caecilian either.

>>2370345
no he literally said
>they are far from well known
and
>People on a board dedicated to animals and nature might know about this obscure animal

he literally called it obscure himself you goddamn retard

>>2370511
>still being this much of a faggot
Wew lad

>>2370511
i'm this close to reporting you

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>>2366989

>>2368005
You're blind if you don't see the resemblance in the shape of the head and the eyes.

>>2367273
Why would you care?
>>2367602
So take some medicine for your diagnose then.
>>2370256
Then go back to /vp/

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>Gee Bill! How come your mom lets you have TWO dorsal fins?

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Land leeches are pretty neato

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Whale lice

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>>2370609

ty

>>2367007
>bad taxidermy

>>2370619
are there hippo lice too?

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>>2369429
This is a repost from tumblr (I know), but I love it:
So someone in a group asked me to tell them why I hate the ocean sunfish so much, and apparently it was ~too mean~ and was deleted. To perpetuate the truth and stand up for ethical journalism, I’m posting it here. [Rated NC-17 for language.]

Disclaimer, I care about marine life more than I care about anything else, for real. Except this big dumb idiot. And it’s not like an ~ironic~ thing, I mean it IS hilarious to me and they ARE THE BIGGEST JOKE PLAYED ON EARTH but I seriously fucking hate them.

THE MOLA MOLA FISH (OR OCEAN SUNFISH)

They are the world’s largest boney fish, weighing up to 5,000 pounds. And since they have very little girth, that just makes them these absolutely giant fucking dinner plates that God must have accidentally dropped while washing dishes one day and shrugged his shoulders at because no one could have imagined this would happen. AND WITH NO PURPOSE. EVERY POUND OF THAT IS A WASTED POUND AND EVERY FOOT OF IT (10 FT BY 14 FT) IS WASTED SPACE.

They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. Some say they must just push water out of their mouths for direction (?????). They COULD use their back fin EXCEPT GUESS WHAT IT DOESNT FUCKING GROW. It just continually folds in on itself, so the freaking cells are being made, this piece of floating garbage just doesn’t put them where they need to fucking go.

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>>2370631
2/3
So they don’t have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn’t just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it’ll fucking sink. EXCEPT. EXCEPT. When they get stuck on top of the water! Which happens frequently! Because without the whole swim bladder thing, if the ocean pushes over THE THINNEST BUT LARGEST MOST TOPPLE-ABLE FISH ON THE PLANET, shit outta luck! There is no creature on this earth that needs a swim bladder more than this spit in the face of nature, AND YET. Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess. But good news, when they end up stuck like that, it gives birds a chance to land on their goddamn island of a body and eat the bugs and parasites out of its skin because it’s basically a slowly migrating cesspool. Pros and cons.

“If they are so huge, they must at least be decent predators.” No. No. The most dangerous thing about them is, as you may have guessed, their stupidity. They have caused the death of one person before. Because it jumped onto a boat. On a human. And in 2005 it decided to relive its mighty glory days and do it again, this time landing on a four-year-old boy. Luckily Byron sustained no injuries. Way to go, fish. Great job.

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>>2370635
3/4
They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it’s so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive. Dumb. See that ridiculous open mouth? (This is actually why this is my favorite picture of one, and I have had it saved to my phone for three years) “Oh no! What could have happened! How could this be!” Do not let that expression fool you, they just don’t have the goddamn ability to close their mouths because their teeth are fused together, and ya know what, it is good it floats around with such a clueless expression on its face, because it is in fact clueless as all fuck.

They do SOMETIMES get eaten though. BUT HARDLY. No animal truly uses them as a food source, but instead (which has lead us to said photo) will usually just maim the fuck out of them for kicks. Seals have been seen playing with their fins like frisbees. Probably the most useful thing to ever come from them.

“Wow, you raise some good points here, this fish truly is proof that God has abandoned us.” Yes, thank you. “But if they’re so bad at literally everything, why haven’t they gone extinct.” Great question.

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>>2370638
4/4
BECAUSE THIS THING IS SO WORTHLESS IT DOESNT REALIZE IT SHOULD NOT EXIST. IT IS SO UNAWARE OF LITERALLY FUCKING EVERYTHING THAT IT DOESNT REALIZE THAT IT’S DOING MAYBE THE WORST FUCKING JOB OF BEING A FISH, OR DEBATABLY THE WORST JOB OF BEING A CLUSTER OF CELLS THAN ANY OTHER CLUSTER OF CELLS. SO WHAT DOES IT DO? IT LAYS THE MOST EGGS OUT OF EVERYTHING. Besides some bugs, there are some ants and stuff that’ll lay more. IT WILL LAY 300 MILLION EGGS AT ONE TIME. 300,000,000. IT SURVIVES BECAUSE IT WOULD BE STATISTICALLY IMPROBABLE, DARE I SAY IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THERE WOULDNT BE AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE 300,000,000 (that is EACH time they lay eggs) LEFT SURVIVING AT THE END OF THE DAY.

And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.

>>2370631
>>2369429
Mola mola are really cool though. How autistic does someone need to be to hate mola mola?

>>2370631
>>2370635
>>2370638
>>2370640
Well it does indeed exist and isn't extinct, just instead of wasting your time hating how about trying to figure out how it does exist or just ignore it? Hate these kinds of posts.

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>>2370260

>>2370651
Just spray him with an autism repellent and move on.

>>2370651
>>2370669
Maybe the only reason you guys are offended is because you are the human equivalent of a mola mola.
>fat
>useless
>no swim bladder

>>2370681
>projecting

>>2370684
Fine, post a pic of your swim bladder and prove me wrong mola-tard

>>2370378
Those tiny arms tho

>>2370681
I'm actually quite thin. I have a job but then again I guess we're all useless.
Thanks for your contribution to an already dying thread that had good potential.

>>2370695
>already dying thread that had good potential.
It's on the first page and my "contribution" was a bump regardless.
>completely retarded
>confirmed for mola mola

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYZGOl9tP8Q

argonauts are so odd

>>2370711
have the tentacles gone vestigal?

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>>2370619

No.

>>2367879
And manatees. Don't forget that.

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Man anon.

You made me hate the Mola Mola as well.

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>>2366984
Do extinct creatures count?
Hallucigenia

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>>2370771

>>2366989
>kangarat
almost as good as the beaver duck, these pokemon fusions are pretty convincing these days

>>2367266
>oh, it's like squir-
>EXPAND DONGs a vaccum bag with a vagina mouth
alright then

>>2367630
AH JESUS FUCK IT'S A WAS-
oh shit it's a mantis, nice

>>2370278
I am 100% certain that my mother does not know what a pangolin is.

>>2370631
>>2370635
>>2370638
>>2370640
Wow that post was fucking cancerous. He's sperging out about literally nothing. The sunfish obviously isn't a failure of evolution because if it were they'd all have died out by now. Mola mola is cool and the guy who wrote that is a fucking asshole.

>>2370640
I enjoyed your rant, I used to do a similar rant about pandas but in person. Fuck pandas.

Also I threw a rock at a sea otter once.

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>>2370744

Is this what Jews evolved from?

>>2367359
>>>2367143
>those things arent even alive, fuck off

Prove it. Pro tip : you can't.

>>2370744
>the smug Jew look

>>2370035
You'd be surprised at the number of people I've met (at college, in the bio program no less) that had no idea narwhals were real animals

>>2370865
Based on humanity's definition of "alive", viruses are pretty much not. Notably they don't metabolize, and they can't reproduce without a host cell. It's debatable though.

>>2370635
>They have caused the death of one person before. Because it jumped onto a boat.
How do they jump, they said earlier they didnt even have a good way of moving around, how does it even jump then?

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>>2370304

>>2367141
It's weird to think out of all things, hornworms turn into these. It makes me not want to remove them.

>>2367643
If I saw this thing, I'd be convinced I was witnessing some kind of cryptid

>>2367284
I learned earth bending from these

>>2369374
This gives me anxiety.

>>2370640
>complete failure of evolution

All that did was convince me that it is a champion at the evolution game. I mean 300 million eggs. No real predators. Literally coasts by barely expending or needing energy. Damn son. Maybe they will outlive us all.

>>2369421
It's not sick

>>2367052
Is it actually edible?

>>2366990
CLOSE ENOUGH, SHIP IT

>>2367403
What was going through your mind as you put the time and effort into making this?

>“Toucans have big beaks. Woah...wait a second...Jews have big noses. Holy fucking shit! What if I photoshopped...Jewish things...onto a toucan?! Haha, man, that would be so hilarious! /an/ is gonna fucking love this...“

You're a fucking imbecile, you know that?

>>2371199
Yeah

>>2371157
That thing looks fucking heavy.

>>2368133
I thought this recently too, I feel if unicorns were from Africa they would be a type of giraffe.

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>>2367643
It's a sha! Beware of foreigners and storms.

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Zebra fish larva

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>>2370378
Wow, I didn't know these existed. Searched for a video on Youtube and their walking is the weirdest thing. Kinda cute though. Would have as a pet.

How drunk was evolution with these guys? They decided to become snakes and are almost there, but not quite.

>>2371155
this

>>2367012
Don't be nice to it. It sets precedent

>>2367147
Your chart was how I rated the animals presented. Thank you

>>2367306
Neat!

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>>2366984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_yYC5r8xMI

>>2370638
what the fuck is with the sea lion in this pic it looks like a bloodborne enemy

>>2371378
Leopard seal.
Flippers scary cousin

>>2371286
wtf lmao

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>>2371377

magnificent, thank you

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Female trilobite beetles. While the males eventually mature into an unremarkable adult form, the females remain in their larval instar throughout their lifespans.

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>>2371419
ayy lmao

>>2371378
>>2371395
No, it's a sea lion. It's just shoving its face into a sunfish. Also, I think it's upside-down and bending its neck very awkwardly.
I'm more disturbed by the gaze of that sunfish. I've never seen fish move their iris before, they just always seem to have the same mindless blank look in their eyes. But that fish seems to be trying to look at the seal. That makes it appear more expressive than most other fish, and visibly distressed at being eaten alive. Makes me feel bad for the thing.

>>2371419
>nature's pedophiles

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>>2367779
Face reminds me this.

>>2371286
:O

>>2370744
>circumcised
What did evolution mean by this?

>>2367013
Huh they actually look much better in motion. I think they are just very unphotogenic.

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olm

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Top tier ambush predator. Thank fuck these guys aren't big enough to prey on people. We'd have no chance.

>>2371899
if they were big enough to do that they wouldn't be able to even move

>>2371907
stop ruining my lovecraft spiders with your square cube law

>>2370378
What are these?

>>2372011
They are called "reverse image search".

>>2372074
is it a lowland or mountain reverse image search?

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>>2371873
Oarfish are fucking nuts and I love them. I can see them inspiring lots of sea monster tall tales, with their odd faces, bright red 'feather' fins and massive size.

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>>2372252
Here's an even bigger one. Imagine seeing something like this swimming near your boat in the old times. It's probably dying, since oarfish rarely are seen unless they're in the dying process, so it's acting more sluggish than usual and maybe you mistake that for it stalking your boat. Crazy.

>>2367025
I'm having flashbacks to mexican cartel videos

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The Dik Dik. Not that they didn't exist, but that they are actually called Dik Diks and that the adults are still teeny tiny little things.

>>2372261
aw, your dikdik is so tiny, it's adorable

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>>2371873
Oarfish are so damn cool. They look like they came out of some sort of fantasy world.

>>2372011
>waht are thooooose? xDD

>>2372261
oh god I forgot about the dik dik.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_4kn-7y9E

>>2372381
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vk4jd0bt6Q
it's a tiny fairy bambi that sounds like a fucking rubber duck deflating holy shit

>>2372253
and it'd be next to impossible to research into it after making landfall. they'd recount their tales and maybe find a bestiary account for an animal that wasn't even an oarfish to begin with

>>2372381

It's the tiddly little twiggy tiny trotters that get me

>>2370640

If it landed on a boat and a child once, they must have the ability to move fast when they really need to, now that would be a sight to see.

>>2370303

>I'll take real life Pokemon for 10, bob.

>>2367141
is it just a trick of the light or some sort of camoflage, or do those things have proper eyes with pupils and irises?

>>2367505
Do they suck it too?

>>2368396
Holy fuck a mammal with T oriented bipedalism.

>>2372261
>>2372381
>>2372417
There's a story about some famous big game hunter in Africa getting stabbed through the hand by a dik dik when he tried to pet it.

>>2372451
Trick of the light. They still have compound eyes.

>>2372451
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln3u41LNENE

>>2370744
>Republic credits are no good out here, I need something more real

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Pallas cats are.. very interesting

>>2372504
Literally my mom's cat

>>2372451
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopupil

>>2372261
>>2372381
>>2372417
That is too fucking precious.

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>>2372504

>FUCK-AH YOUUUU ROUND EYE

>>2371210

Imagine being THIS preciously triggered over a throwaway joke.

Surprised you didn't order him back to /pol/ for full 4chn good boy points.

>>2366984
I remember a vegan using this animal as proof that having canines doesn't mean you have to eat meat.

>>2370619

These inspired the parasites from Cloverfield

>>2371210
you probably spent more time on that awful response than he did shopping that pic
at least his pic made me smirk

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>>2370548
yeah, almost like they're both foxes
hurrrr

>>2372505
Go back to /vp/

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>>2372261
I see your Dik Dik and raise you a Kancil

>>2370631
>>2370635
>>2370638
>>2370640
given the increasing sea temperatures leading to massive increase in jellyfish populations, shouldn't we be encouraging these sea retards to spread to combat them?

>>2372808
SLAMMED

>>2372783
Post a regular fox face and show us how "alike" they are then.
Burden of retardation is on you.

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>>2370631
>>2370635
>>2370638
>>2370640
In true tumblr fashion, the faggot who wrote this was trying way too hard to be funny and ended up just coming across as an obnoxious prick. This is what happens when you design an entire website as a positive feedback loop for mental illness.

>>2372843
>the faggot who wrote this was trying way too hard to be funny and ended up just coming across as an obnoxious prick.

Sounds like the Internet in general, to be fair.

>>2372808
I want to eat it and pet it.

>>2372504
Saw some in a zoo. They're actually smaller than I thought.

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What? No love for Star Wars extra wearing novelty monster paw slippers?

>>2372808
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJmrfGwQmy0
Mousedeer are great, especially when they lick their eyeballs.

>>2369429
I love that Japanese twitter post illustrating where you can punch straight through one without meeting any skeleton. Not sure where I saved it.

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>>2373921
So cute.

>>2366984
>>>2367284
>
>They are so very sensitive to vibrations, its amazing.
>
>>>2367334
>
>They've never done anything to hurt you and live in peace. They're one of God's creatures and you'll show some respect.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA hurr durr Gods creatures hurrr durrr respect ayylmao

>>2374040
you're terrible at this

>>2374040
You have to be 18 to post here.

>>2368133
Not to mention that they act really silly.