It's time for a creepy animals thread

[Aldentron]

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Bobbit worm

(Eunice aphroditois)

is a species of polychaete worm found in Indo-Pacfic waters. Like something out of someones nightmare this worm buries itself in the mud where it waits for an unwary animal to swim by, it then attacks the animal with a mouth full of sharp teeth with enough speed to cut some animals in half. and if that wasn’t scary enough these worms can grow up to 10ft long! (they average at 3ft though).

Phylogeny

Animalia-Annelida-Polychaeta-Eunicida-Eunicidae-Eunice-aphroditois

[Nullifidian]

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This is great motivation for me to never go outside again. GG spitfire

edit: woah alden that worm looks sick as fuck

[AlexDest]

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These are eye worms that penetrate the inside of your eye and live there. You might be thinking oh well thank goodness that's in a frog's eye. Can't possibly happen to humans, right? Right?!

WRONG!

fuck

you

[FissionMailed1]

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lmfaooo, that gif.

[Aldentron]

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cicadas creep a lot of people out, i think they're beautiful right before they shed, when they cling to a leaf or branch and begin to seemingly meditate

[Nullifidian]

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cicadas creep a lot of people out, i think they're beautiful right before they shed, when they cling to a leaf or branch and begin to seemingly meditate

Oh I have a good image for you then:

[Aldentron]

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and here's a video of the bobbit worm in action. octopus is like "lol fuck you dude"

http://vimeo.com/28280553

[Xiz]

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[Aldentron]

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this thing basically jizzes on its prey until they're paralyzed and can't move
kind of like bukkake rape

edit for clarification, it's not sperm, it's mucous

[pokelda]

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I'd eat some of the animals in this thread.

[Aldentron]

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i dunno which one is creepier in this vid, the star fish or the nemertean worm

[Charu]

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Gotta love that life.

[travman301]

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Oh I have a good image for you then:

I like how it just chills on its old body when he's done molting.

[Nullifidian]

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The bobbit worm is an insanely badass creature holy shit. Never heard of that thing before but I'll definitely have to grab some reference of that haha.

Giant hornet, fuck me sideways

Tarantula hawk, arguably the biggest wasp out there.

A type of millipede called Harpaphe Haydeniana

Some kind of jellyfish, dunno which species but it looks creepy

Portuguese Man o' war, these fuckers are terrifying. Delivers an extremely painful venom through its tentacles which can grow up to 50 meters in length! (that's 164 feet for you non-metric people) The venom has been known to kill as well but on very rare occassions. Despite popular belief, these are not jellyfish but a different kind of creature called siphonophore, which means the individual parts of the man o' war are actually seperate creatures called zooids which are part of the same body.

Underside of a Horseshoe crab, not actually a crab (or a crustacean), closer related to arachnids than to actual crustaceans. They also have blue blood.

edit: Fuck daddy long legs!

[Mollocephalus]

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A+ thread will insect again