“Headless” ladybug (x)

The Chinese Pangolin appears like a scaly anteater. From head to body, it measures around 60 cm (24 inches) and its tail measures about 18 cm (7 inches). A mature Chinese pangolin weighs about 2.4 kg (82.72 oz). A new born baby pangolin weighs about 93 gram (3.26 oz). It has 18 rows of overlapping scales accompanied with hair, a rare combination found in mammals. It has a small narrow mouth and a little pointed head. Its nose is plump with nostrils at its end. This is a bronze colored animal with a round body equipped with extremely sharp claws.

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Spiny mice are some of the most aptly named animals around. They are rodents, related to mice and rats, and their backs are covered with spiny hairs rather like those of hedgehogs, albeit not as rigid. Although a hedgehog’s spines are defensive, those of spiny mice are probably too soft to hurt a predator. They might turn out to be sensory organs, a little like whiskers.

Ecologists in Kenya would sometimes catch a live spiny mouse in a trap and try to pick it up, but to no avail. “Often it would take off and they’d be left with a piece of skin in their hands,” says Ashley Seifert of the University of Florida in Gainesville. Sceptical but intrigued, Seifert travelled to Kenya to see for himself.

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Like many animals that display autotomy, spiny mice can regenerate their lost tissues rapidly, just as salamanders can regrow tails. Spiny mice regrow the skin on their backs, including the normal hairs and the spines, and without scarring.

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Introducing Phallostethus cuulongCredit: L.X. Tran, ZootaxaThe male of this new species of fish sports its sex organ on its chin, though it looks nothing like the members on humans and other mammals.

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zloi-medved:

MEANWHILE IN AUSTRALIA

BOBBLE-HEADED BIRDS

RABBITS MATING WITH RATS

TINY HERBIVOROUS BEARS

PLUSH TOYS MAGICALLY COME TO LIFE

LIZARDS-

 WHAT THE FUCK

WALKING FEATHER DUSTERS

THE FUCK IS THIS IDEK BUT IT DESERVES A HUG

THE MOST FABULOUS BIRDS SINCE FLAMINGOS

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS THING IT’S LIKE A DOG BRED WITH A MEERKAT

WELL IT’S PRETTY CUTE I G- JESUSFUCK

AND MORE LIZARDS

FUCK MAN EVERYWHERE HAS LIZARDS WHAT’S THE BIG D- WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK

AND WHATEVER THIS THING IS WILL FUCK UP A HONEY BADGER

WHAT YOU THINK CUZ IT’S LIKE 80% DESERT HERE WE DON’T GOT PENGUINS FUCK YOU WE GOT PENGUINS IN SWEATERS

HEY I THINK YOU SAW THIS ONE IN A MUSEUM ONCE

ALSO HEY ENJOY OUR BEAUTIFUL BEACHES ALSO THIS FUCKER

AND THIS GUY

AND THIS GUY WANTS TO KILL YOU TOO

AND HOLY FUCK LOOK AT THIS THING

JESUS CHRIST THEY COME IN POCKET VERSIONS

BACK TO THINGS THAT WANT YOU DEAD

WEREN’T EXPECTING THAT WERE YOU.

SO YEAH, COME VISIT AUSTRALIA.

WE’RE ALL FUCKING WAITING WITH OUR WEIRD SHIT.

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TURTLE FROG
Myobatrachus gouldii
© Julian Bentley/frogs.org.au 

NOT A TURTLE, NOT A FROG - this is a mash-up of both - turtle and frog with a little alien thrown in for good measure. It’s a real animal the aptly named Turtle Frog and is endemic to Southwestern Australia.

A very peculiar frog with a body shape resembling a small turtle with its shell removed. The head is very small, with reduced eyes, and quite distinct from the body, unlike most other frogs. The limbs are short but muscular. This species burrows forward through the sand, unlike most of arid-adapted burrowing frogs that use their hind feet and descend backwards in to the soil. The back color ranges from pink to a uniform light to dark brown.

Lays up to 50 eggs. There is no tadpole stage as the embryo goes through its entire development in the egg capsule and emerges as a small but fully formed frog.

Source: http://frogwatch.museum.wa.gov.au/Southwest/SouthwestForests/434.aspx

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