The Animals that you had never heard of before Thread

[gib]

Vu Quang Ox

fucking feet are nailed to a plank, wtf

[FredNurke]

The Piranha Brothers strike again.

[QDRPHNC]

[poo]

Not just an animal, but it's own phylum. The priapulid worm.

Fell out of machotrout's bag of dildos

[Chuck Armstrong]

41 Strange is fantastic for this kind of thing. One of the few Twitter accounts worth following.

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1124446402325516288

The bloodybelly comb jelly, found in the deep sea, with disco lights running throughout its body.

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1130870469182156803

Carukia barnesi is a venomous jellyfish found near Australia. Stings can result in Irukandji syndrome, characterized by a feeling of  "impeding doom." Patients have been reported as being so sure they are going to die that they beg their doctors to kill them to get it over with.

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1139329263859986434

The Cownose Ray

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1139216879560474625

The "Sea Bunny" is a type of sea slug called Jorunna parva. These little creatures may look cute, but they're actually quite poisonous. The sea bunnies' preferred snack are sea sponges, which are rich in toxins. This makes a mouthful of fluffy bunny quite poisonous to predators.

[Blue Jam]

kudu

Cor, he's magnificent, a wise warrior of an animal. I'd sit next to him at a campfire and ask him to dispense some ancient wisdom but I'd be sure to lay my spear down first.

The Manx Loaghton on the other hand can fuck off right back to Hades (or the Isle of Man, whichever is worse):

[king_tubby]

The bony-eared assfish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bony-eared_assfish

The bony-eared assfish holds the record for the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of all vertebrates

Of course, they're all bony-eared assfish by the time I'm finished with them.

The sarcastic fringehead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcastic_fringehead

When two fringeheads have a territorial battle, they wrestle by pressing their distended mouths against each other, as if they were kissing.

Of course, they're all pressing their distended mouths against each other, as if they were kissing by the time I've finished with them.

[biggytitbo]

[rasta-spouse]

snake-mimic caterpillar. cool right?

[Howj Begg]

Yes, it is.

Unironically sad to see the prejudice against small animals on this thread. Insects are fascinating and beautiful and that's a hill I will DIE ON

[rasta-spouse]

snake-mimic caterpillar's too insecure to be himself, deserves all the flak he gets imho - the guy spends half the time frontin'

[gib]

would

[Ambient Sheep]

Until about twenty years ago, the eight-track-cartridge linking section of Pigs on the Wing.

[chveik]

boy oh boy I've got great news for you my friends!

Corsica: Gray-tailed hair, ringtail, the "ghjattu-volpe" - "fox-cat" in Corsican - growls in his cage. In the forest of Asco, two agents of the National Office for Hunting and Wildlife (ONCFS) show AFP what they think is a new species of feline.

"For us, it is a natural wild species, which was known but not listed, because it is an extremely discreet animal, with nocturnal manners. It is an extraordinary discovery," enthuses AFP Pierre. Benedetti, chief environmental technician of ONCFS, on the site of the capture carried out without violence. This undergrowth of Haute-Corse is accessible after 45 minutes of walk in the rocky and forested landscape of the Asco Valley, where one meets cows and rare hikers.

It is in this "steep mountainous" territory of 25,000 hectares, "far from the presence of man" and where there is "water and a plant cover to protect it from its main predator, the eagle royal "that the ONCFS has identified 16 fox-cats and has captured 12, including a female, explains to AFP Carlu-Antone Cecchini, missionary forest cat at the National Office. All were released after a quick review.

Once asleep, the silky-haired feline, very similar to the classic domestic cat for the uninitiated, is studied by both agents: 90 cm from the head to the end of the tail, ears of ears "very wide ", short whiskers, canines" very developed "."Tarsi of the hind legs always very black", "red-rust colour on the belly", the density of very important hair which preserves fleas, lice or ticks. Tail "with between 2 and 4 rings and always a well black terminal sleeve", "zebra on very characteristic front legs"

"It's their length and their tail that has earned them the name of fox-cat from one end to the other of the island," notes Benedetti, adding that it has been observed in several Corsican regions. Equipped with a chip with an identification number in the neck, this male "from 4 to 6 years", already captured several times, has a green eye and a brown eye damaged during a fight with another male.

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/viral-and-trending/140619/new-animal-species-found-in-corsica.html

[kittens]

i know about cats mate

[garbed_attic]

I mostly hear about them when it's posted they've just been declared extinct

[surreal]

Shoebill stork is my favourite new animal:

[kittens]

look everyone, they've found another one!



scientists are calling it the brown horse



although almost identical to an already discovered species, scientists are very excited about this brand new creature!



welcome to the animal kingdom, brown horse!

[Golden E. Pump]

The gold-crested lesser doorstop.

Commonly found in damp corners of homes throughout the world, it is believed that the doorstop mates telepathically and can hear the colour green. You can also shove it right up your buttocks.