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[Tormy]

Not enough of shape-changing creatures. Let's take this for example. I'm surprised it isn't here already, because it's pretty much the most amazing nature thing ever.

Wow! That's pretty impressive...It looks like that this octopus has found the One Ring! 

[Yanlin]

EDIT: Also, this See Bromor Neckbeards post on 'Approaching foreign ideas', it's quite amazing. I noticed it right after posting this one.

Dude! Mantis shrimp reference! All hail the Mantis shrimp appreciation thread!

[Il Palazzo]

mantis shrimp,mantis shrimp,Mantis Shrimp,[size=8]Mantis Shrimp! [/size][size=9]MANTIS SHRIMP!![/size]

[JoshuaFH]

I eat you shimpz!

[Zai]

I want to go to Jellyfish Lake before I die. I've wanted to since I first heard about it a year or two ago. It's not happening anytime soon, though.

But yes. Octopi are also awesome. But mantis shrimp could probably cut 'em up.

[Tormy]

Lurch the Wonder Watusi


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Anyone have seen the movie called "Legend"? Now take a look at this picture. When I've seen this watusi, that image has popped up in my mind. 

[JoshuaFH]

That looks like the sorta creature you'd see drawn on a vase depicting that culture's crazy-ass cow mythology.

[Cyx]

Mind-controlling parasites are awesome.

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

[Il Palazzo]

Do you like lions?
Do you like tigers?
Do you like inter-species sexual encounters cross-breeding?
The Liger is there to deliver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
There are two things to be said about the Liger:
one - it's surely more awesome than the Tigon.
two - it's surely less awesome than the (tench-hut!)MANTIS SHRIMP!!!!!(at ease)

[Tormy]

The White Siberian Tiger also looks impressive.
By far the most important aspect of the White Siberian Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) (Amur tiger) is the decline in population of this fantastic big cat.

The White Siberian Tiger is not, as you may know, a separate big cat species (or subspecies) to the orange Siberian Tiger (the classic tiger color and pattern). This superb animal is simply a Siberian tiger with a different colored coat.

The difference in the coat coloration and the faint pattern is due to the presence of two recessive alleles (allele = one of a pair of genes) at the same location (locus) on the chromosome (this is called homozygous).


Take a look at these pictures.

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[Il Palazzo]

hmpf. WST hasn't got that faint, forbidden-love innuendo of Liger's. And Liger never stops growing(while being alive, of course)

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Still I don't think they're anywhere near the smug, suave coolness of Mantis Shrimp.
I also don't know what words "smug" and "suave" actually mean, but they sound very mantis-shrimp'y

[Tormy]

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Still I don't think they're anywhere near the smug, suave coolness of Mantis Shrimp.
I also don't know what words "smug" and "suave" actually mean, but they sound very mantis-shrimp'y

Larval Mantis Shrimp [Mid Stage] looks pretty weird & awesome in the same time.

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[Yanlin]

We seriously need to open a Mantis shrimp thread.

[Duke 2.0]

We seriously need to open a Mantis shrimp thread.

No. Stop it. Stop right there. That thread will see no more than five pages. Don't bring a thread into this world if it will just be abandoned and forgotten a week from now.

 Gentlemen, I present the Horned Devil.
 
 Bonus: Notostraca. Basically large sea monkeys.
 

[Bromor Neckbeard]

What's cooler than a shrimp that can punch as hard as a .22 short?  A bug that defends itself with lethal exploding farts!.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpJ3asv3XMY&feature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle