My dad says that all the time and ends the musing with, "Who knows? One of those species could have the cure for cancer."
― not uplifting (Abbott), Sunday, 4 December 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
Irony of phallus dentatum:
Rather than the sleek, smooth tadpoles that other mammals have, the mole rat’s sperm had all manner of abnormally shaped heads. Some are squashed, others long. Some have bulbous lobes all over them. There are sperm with shrunken heads, two heads, conical heads. The DNA inside them isn’t packaged properly. Most are asymmetrical. And all the males – whether breeding or not – had the same misshapen sperm....With all these deviations, it’s no surprise that the naked mole rat’s sperm won’t be winning any races. Only between 1 and 15 percent of them can actually swim, and just 1 percent of these can swim quickly. The vast majority move at a slow crawl; they might even be the slowest sperm of any mammal.
― Leee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/files/2011/12/Sperm.gif
loool
― The Love Song of L. Alfred Sotosyn (dayo), Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/files/2011/12/penis.jpg
― Leee, Friday, 9 December 2011 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ engorged ostrich penis, btw.
http://www.knullen.com/gallery3/var/albums/Chameleon---The-master-of-Camouflage/Brown%20Leaves%20Chameleon.jpeg
(Fantastic Leaf-tailed Gecko, aka Satanic (wtf?) Leaf-tailed Gecko)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/8940584/Animal-camouflage-can-you-spot-these-masters-of-disguise-playing-hide-and-seek.html?image=2
― Leee, Saturday, 10 December 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
That's amazing. Ostrich peen is horrible. ;_;
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Saturday, 10 December 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/diamond-weevil-rainbow-scales/
http://i.imgur.com/kCkJK.jpg
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Saturday, 24 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
Not so much weird but great photography:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E3AksApWGqU/Tv5MnQKmWXI/AAAAAAAABMs/hVWkocZdnW4/s400/Ant_bite.jpg
She's all, "WTF r u lookin @???"
― IEEE (Leee), Sunday, 1 January 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link