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[SwiftDeath]

Sea Spiders, Rockcrabs, Faceless ones, and lizardfishes

These are a few of my favorite things

 

[Captain Zyrain]

The Ocean. Not even once!

 

[Etrian Oddity]

Marine biology tends to be the most interesting.

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[DiipuSurotu]

 

[captjohnboyd]

brilliant lol

 

[dodosaurus]

not sure if i should stay in this thread or leave before the nightmares hit...

i made a wise decision today

 

[Polioliolio]

Wow, awesome, but fuck trawling.

 

[nkarafo]

Land spiders are still creepier to me.

 

[Daingurse]

Deep sea life is both fascinating and horrifying.

Land spiders are still creepier to me.

I'm a pretty big arachnophobe, and that sea spider really creeps me out lol. It's like a spider from another damn planet.

 

[FreeMufasa]

Living rock

 

[sammex]

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Living rock

 

[MCN]

Looks like a Pokemon.

That's Krabby's Mega Evolution.

 

[Archaeopteryx]

 

[Hastati]

The carnivorous sponges look like crinoids at a glance. I always love it when the stuff they dig up at the bottom of the ocean resembles critters from 500 million years ago. It's also interesting how certain morphology is still selected for after half a billion years or more, I bet life on other planets would often evolve convergently with our own given similar environments. So I'm sure these are all actually aliens.

edit: I didn't even know crinoids still existed, but apparently they do.

 

[FuuRe]

Australia is just missing flying spiders, all of my nope to that place.

 

[All Possible Ways]

From the article on sea spiders:

As one prominent taxonomist once observed, if you wanted to design a creature from outer space you would do well to choose a sea spider as your model!
(...)
At some stage of their life cycle pycnogonids commonly parasitise a soft-bodied host.

Facehugger confirmed.

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Seriously though, these creatures are all awesome!

 

[Omnii-chan]

Why would anybody touch these with their bare hands? Jesus, no.

 

[Monocle]

Alien was a documentary.

 

[nelsonroyale]

fantastic

 

[Toxi]

Sea spiders are the fucking weirdest animals. Basically most of their internal anatomy, including their digestive system, is squeezed into the legs so they can have a larger surface area to volume ratio.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

jesus h christ



and that faceless fish is just a giant sperm

 

[Reversed]

Underwater movie where dumb scientist gets eaten by a horde of carnivorous sponges.

 

[StickSoldier]

That's nothing, the shit this Russian fisherman finds...

MOTHER FUCKER Does this thing have two fucking faces?! One on its face and another one in its mouth?! I see TWO sets of eyes, yes that's right TWO! I am not crazy right?

 

[nkarafo]

When i see all these creatures i wonder. Did Adam had to name those as well?

 

[BigDes]

Lizard fish looks like an old timey prospector telling tall stories about the Lost Dutchmans mine in the bar.

 

[Captain Smoker]

 

[Mobius 1]

Faceless Fish

 

[nitewulf]

I clicked the thread..."What a fucking joke, there are no sea spiders....there are sea spiders."

 

[Toa TAK]

I fucking hate the abyss.

Literally the most normal animal in this thread.

LOL


That's messed up.

 

[Bad_Boy]

Fuck this thread. Lordy

 

[gnomed]

Living rock

Looks like for porn when the hosts breaks open to reveal the inside.

 

[Mr.Shrugglesツ]

I wish DiipuSurotu would give me credit for the idea tbh

 

[L4DANathan]

Design by Tetsuya Nomura.

Please, it doesn't have nearly enough zippers or belt buckles.

 

[NewGame]

Australia is just missing flying spiders, all of my nope to that place.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/v...ain-is-sometimes-made-of-spiders-video-report


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