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Six pages of abyssal weirdness

scythemantis wrote in wtf_nature Dec 28, 2008 05:09

I had a single page of "deep-sea facts" for many years on my website and always intended to update it, but procrastinated until just last night. Probably not much new to wtf_nature, though I couldn't find much mention of the Xenophyophores here ( Read more... )

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Scaly-foot gastropod

evilstorm wrote in wtf_nature Jun 02, 2008 23:43

I'm just going to quote Wiki straight because it really says it all ( Read more... )

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Achatina Snail

distort303 wrote in wtf_nature Jan 14, 2008 11:55

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slug sex!

____nichole wrote in wtf_nature Nov 29, 2007 15:37

I think its quite beautiful, actually :P

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Three vids:

xidiomaticlogic wrote in wtf_nature Nov 02, 2007 23:44

First: The Red Capped Mannikin, a bird that dances much, much better than the biologists that study it.

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And second: I watched this video late at night. Very, very late. Alone. In a storm. My combined fears of zombies and ants(the former visceral, the latter intellectual) made me absolutely lose my shit. Yeah, yeah, laugh. And although it's ( Read more... )

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