Freakshow

[Ensign Steve]

I don't want to start a new thread every time a two-headed or otherwise tragically mutated animal comes along. So, I give you, the freakshow thread.

:kiwf:http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01480/snake_1480967c.jpg

Snake with foot found in China - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html)

[LadyShea]

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/8/two_headed_turtle.jpg

3 days after the main hatch, workers excavate each turtle nest, and open any remaining eggs to see if it was unfertilized, dead embryo, or what. They found this two headed turtle during one of them.

[Ari]

I see a doggie with a clown nose, I don't know what the hell you are talking about.

;)

[Ensign Steve]

Clown Pug, obviously. :unnod:

[BrotherMan]

Oh good. Not just me.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Thirded.

[viscousmemories]

Yep.

[Plant Woman]

:uhhuh: Some weird boxer.

[erimir]

Indeed it does.

I thought it was like, some sort of freaky shrunken dog head at first.

[Ymir's blood]

Less 'me too' and more freakshow, plz.

[Ensign Steve]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01483/m1_1483504c.jpg

New 'Montauk Monster' spotted in Panama - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/panama/6201333/New-Montauk-Monster-spotted-in-Panama.html)

[Smilin]

It was variously identified as a dead dog, a disused film prop and a marketing stunt, but its remains have never been found.

Looks like a hairless sloth to me. Funny how its remains were photographed, but never actually found.

[erimir]

Whatever it is, it looks like it's trying to make a sexy pose.

[ChuckF]

Whatever it is, it looks like it's trying to make a sexy pose.
Whatever it is, it's succeeding.

[Ensign Steve]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01485/spiderlizard_1485653c.jpg

Spiderman Lizards (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6213807/Spider-Man-lookalike-lizard-is-latest-exotic-pet-craze.html)

[Garnet]

OK, now that's just cool!

[Leesifer]

WANT!

[ITSOZAZ]

i thought it (the alien looking thingy) looked like ET and as i commented on another site:

i hope that thing didn't watch ET and think he'd be ok approaching children and that maybe one would take him home in his bicycle basket or something...people are meaner since spielberg changed his focus from hope and kindness to killing jews and germans...


(the story i read at that site had children killing it with rocks)

[Ensign Steve]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/04/article-1225042-0711FC57000005DC-753_634x693.jpg

Bald bears baffle vets with mystery condition at German zoo | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1225042/Bald-bears-baffle-vets-mystery-condition-German-zoo.html)

[Ari]

Bears are much cutter all fuzzy and covered in fur.

[Ensign Steve]

I think he looks sweet. I'd like to pet him. I like hairless dogs and cats, too, though, so my opinion is probably skewed.

[BDS]

That's no bear! It's the New Jersey Devil! Jersey Devil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil)

[Leesifer]

The bare bear scares me.

[Adam]

The Jersey Devil scared the fuck out of me when I was a kid, and I wasn't even from Jersey. It was the look on its freakshow face in this picture, which I saw in some book or another:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Jersey_Devil_Philadelphia_Post_1909.jpg/200px-Jersey_Devil_Philadelphia_Post_1909.jpg

IT IS LOOKING AT ME!

[Deadlokd]

It looks like a werebear.

[Demimonde]

Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't ... WHAT THE FUCK?!!? DEAR GOD NOOOOO!!!!

[Ensign Steve]

Bald cockatoo for some reason.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01539/bald-parrot-2_1539912i.jpg

[Ymir's blood]

Bald cockatoo dancing.

[BrotherMan]

Cockatoos gone WILD!

:drinkingbird:

[Ensign Steve]

:kiwf:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Nacktmull.jpg

I have no idea what it is.

[Pan Narrans]

It's a naked mole rat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole_rat), the only mammal that has a hive-like social organization :professor:

[Ensign Steve]

Does that mean it has a queen and drones and stuff?

[Pan Narrans]

Each colony has a queen, a couple of males, and a whole lot of workers. :yup:

[Ensign Steve]

Nice!

It's good to be the queen.
:queen:

[Ymir's blood]

:ff: has a queen, a worker and a whole lot of drones.

[Watser?]

:giggles:

[Ensign Steve]

:kiwf: http://www.picshag.com/pics/012010/cat-on-a-cat.jpg

Cat on a cat! It's the devil, I say! :freakout:

[BrotherMan]

Cat on a cat! It's the devil, I say! :freakout:

Unable to connect. :sadcheer:

[Ensign Steve]

Oh weird, it's gone for me now too. Must be the reddit effect.

[Ensign Steve]

:chinesedragon:

http://www.geekologie.com/2010/02/16/lil-dragon.jpg

Dragons Exist, Much Smaller Than Expected - Geekologie (http://www.geekologie.com/2010/02/dragons_exist_much_smaller_tha.php)

Cat on a Cat is back, too, fyi, if you scroll up.

[Ensign Steve]

http://www.treehugger.com/all-black-penguin.jpg

Melanism is merely the dark pigmentation of skin, fur -- or in this case, feathers. The unique trait derives from increased melanin in the body. Genes may play a role, but so might other factors. While melanism is common in many different animal species (e.g., Washington D.C. is famous for its melanistic squirrels), the trait is extremely rare in penguins. All-black penguins are so rare there is practically no research on the subject -- biologists guess that perhaps one in every quarter million of penguins shows evidence of at least partial melanism, whereas the penguin we saw appears to be almost entirely (if not entirely) melanistic.

All-black penguin discovered | Yahoo! Green (http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/24/all-black-penguin-discovered.html)

[Ymir's blood]

"My life... is a dark room"

[Deadlokd]

Brother Penguin, represent.

[Blue]

That dragon pic is fuckin awesome!

[Ensign Steve]

:kiwf:http://i.imgur.com/NvQUF.jpg

Is it real? I can't tell fakes.

[livius drusus]

We need BroMan to look at the pixels. Meanwhile, that is one styling zonkey.

[Adam]

Real or fake, it's freaking adorable.

[BrotherMan]

:aww:

[Demimonde]

I don't know about that pic, but I have met a zonkey and yes they are freaking adorable.

[Ensign Steve]

I would believe the real animal, but seeing the "parents" in the pic makes me think it's at least staged. I am not all that familiar with equine mating practices (no, really! :shiftier:) but I don't imagine they hang out in nuclear groups like that.

[Ensign Steve]

:kiwf:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00704/bear_585x350_704962a.jpg

‘Oriental yeti’ that looks like a bear without fur shipped for tests - Times Online (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article7088318.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093)

[maddog]

:kiwf:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00704/bear_585x350_704962a.jpg

‘Oriental yeti’ that looks like a bear without fur shipped for tests - Times Online (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article7088318.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093)

That looks like a kangaroo to me.

#2431

[Ensign Steve]

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Haven't you ever heard that song by Loverboy?

Pig and elephant DNA just won't splice!
:git:

[BrotherMan]

"... but don't let them pull the wool over your eyes! Nu-uh!"

:frysees:

[Ensign Steve]

Six-Legged Calf Born in North Carolina (http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-six-legged-calf-100707,0,6542107.story)

http://www.myfox8.com/media/photo/2010-07/54804413.jpg

I approve.
:krishna:

[Ymir's blood]

A farmer in Climax
I've been by there a time or two but never quite reached it.

[erimir]

That's not a 6-legged calf, it's a deer with oddly shaped antlers.

[One for Sorrow]

Meet Pancho and Lefty (http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/venice-beach-freakshows-two-headed-six-legged-dragon-is-amazingly-cute/19561048), conjoined bearded dragons. :aww:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/tandoori_magpie/1279628809641.jpg

[Ensign Steve]

http://www.japanator.com/elephant/ul/16385-620x-gross.jpg

Creature found in Japanese waters looks like a... | Japanator.com: anime news, original features, and weird stories from Japan, updated daily! (http://www.japanator.com/creature-found-in-japanese-waters-looks-like-a--16385.phtml)

It looks like a mushroom on top and a donut on the bottom! Tee hee!

[Naru]

Baby Cloverfield.

[Ensign Steve]

These are just regular ants but they are awesome in ye olde super-zoom hi-rez 3D technology.

Nature - The world's ants captured in 3D (http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/12880498)

[Vivisectus]

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200711/r205205_780356.jpg

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01552/devil_1552123c.jpg

Tasmanian devils are on the brink of extinction because a viral cancer is spreading among them.

Some virus-free populations are being set aside to try to keep some around. Currently infection rates in afflicted areas are estimated at about 90%.

Interesting sidenote - the average age of sexual maturity seems to have dropped to 1 year as a result, as individuals that mature earlier have a greater chance of reproducing.