Freaky creatures

[Beiss]

Hello!

Do you know of a strange animal, or other living thing, that you don't think most people even knew existed, and that you'd like to share with us? It needs to be a real thing, dead or alive, prehistoric or current, but other than that, everything's welcome, as long as it's strange.

I'll start:

The Tiburonia Granrojo is a deep-sea living jellyfish. It has muscle-like arms instead of tentacles, and reminds me of Krang or a Metroid It grows to be roughly 3 feet in diameter. Wiki article

[Atabeg of Damascus]

Check FHM's "weird creatures".

[Beiss]

Where now?

[Atabeg of Damascus]

FHM. Mens magazine in the UK. But its world wide now I think.

[Valentin the II]

I love such threads!
Ok here comes.
First we will start with Hybrids:
Ligers
What do you get when you cross a lion and a tiger?
One big a**s cat.
These are oficialy the largest felynes of our time.
+ Most of them were born by "acsident", when a lion suddenly got interested in a tiger (female).



Prehistoric sharks are cool:
Helicoprion
Lived about 250 million years ago and reached lengths over 10 feet.


Echinochimaera
Some 350 million years old, less than 1 foot in length.


And of cours MEGALODON!!!!1!one!
The bigest shark that ever existed.

Reached Up to 16m in length, lived in the Miocene and Pliocene epochs 16-1.6 million years ago, and ate evrything.

[Beiss]

Yep, that's a seriously big cat. I've never seen pictures of one before. And... that shark tooth... ouch

[removeduser_426582376423734]

Freakayyyy.

[Turnus]

Freakayyyy.

Ah, Ricky Gervais.

Chalicothere


These were relatives of horses that walked on their knuckles like a gorilla or giant ground sloth.

It's interesting that the Ancylotherium (an African variety of Chalicotherium), appears to have been contemporary with early hominids.

[Sheep]

It's interesting that the Ancylotherium (an African variety of Chalicotherium), appears to have been contemporary with early hominids.

Lots of wacky stuff was. I only wish we still had those animals!

[Atabeg of Damascus]

[TAG]

Are you sure its not photoshoped ? never heard about offspring of tiger and lion

[Valentin the II]

Are you sure its not photoshoped ? never heard about offspring of tiger and lion

Nope, they'r real.

And so are tigons (male tiger + liones):

Jaglions (Jaguar + lion):

Zeedonks:

And other hybrids.

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The wierdest of them all:
The Toast of Botswana
A practicaly imposible sheep-goat hybrid.
Because of their vast genetic differences (goats have 60 chromosomes, sheep have 54 chromosomes) and presumably them belonging to different genera (goats are genus Capra, sheep are genus Ovis), sheep-goat hybrids generally die as embryos. The hybrid had 57 chromosomes.
From a genetic standpoint that should be emposible in nature.

[Francisco Montana]

Thread moved to the Athenaeum. ~ Lord Gruffles

[Thanatos]

No, they exist. Just like if you mix a buffalo with a cow, you get a beefalo.

Here we are! I win!

First pic is of a very tiny grub. The second on is a spider I took a picture of in the backyard.





I call it a "Skull Spider." See the skull on its head?

[chris_uk_83]

No, they exist. Just like if you mix a buffalo with a cow, you get a beefalo.

Here we are! I win!

First pic is of a very tiny grub. The second on is a spider I took a picture of in the backyard.





I call it a "Skull Spider." See the skull on its head?

And that's a skulltula

[boofhead]

I call it a "Skull Spider." See the skull on its head?

That would be a "Black and Yellow Argiope" I believe.

http://www.spiderzrule.com/commonspidersusa.htm

[Beiss]

Ligers are really cool. But look at this:

This one is obviously fake.


But what about this one? The belly looks really fuzzy.


And is this the closest you can get to a lion's mane on a liger?

[Sheep]

Chalicothere


These were relatives of horses that walked on their knuckles like a gorilla or giant ground sloth.

Therizinosaurus


This was a theropod dinosaur found in Asia from the Cretaceous Period. Check out the claws, the largest found was over 65cm (25in) in length! Its name means "scythe lizard" -- very appropriate I think. The only part of this dinosaur actually known are its arms. The rest of its body is scaled up from smaller relatives of which we know more. The feathers are speculative but have also been found on one of its smaller relatives.

As far as modern animals go, I don't think the hybrid zeedonk looks half as weird as this:

Okapi



A naturally-occurring relative of the giraffe from the rainforest of the Congo. Not even discovered by Western science until the early 1900s.

My favorite antelope:

Giant Eland


This is a female. The males are absolutely enormous and can weigh up over 900kg (2000lb)! These live in the forest mostly.

Here is a (sad) picture of a male for scale:


A close cousin is the equally large common eland, which lives in the plains (zebras for scale):

[turtle]

Well, since we're getting into weird creatures. I've got one that I've seen before at a very close distance. I don't believe this one is known in science as being "real", but I know what I've seen. I've never been diagnosed with any kind of eye disorders or mental disorders. I do wear glasses, but my vision isn't that bad and I had them on when I saw it. I wasn't under the influence of any drugs, and I hadn't even tried drugs yet. I did a few months later though... but that's beside the point. I was living in a pine dominated forest, as you would find in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. I stayed in a house that was about 15 feet away from a very steep incline that lead to a small creek at the bottom. The incline wasn't really thick with trees, but it did have a few and was descendable; it was also about 2-3 miles long, and went down about 200 yards (forgive the lack of metric use). By the way, I lived on the side of the Mission Mountains a little over a third of the way up with little houses in the vicinity, so you could say I was in the wilderness... pretty much; we were the last house up the mountain, on a very rough road.

Getting back to the creature. It was a bird of some kind. It stood about two feet off of the ground and had a slanted back at around 50-60 degrees, with an upright head, or what seemed to be upright. The colors on it were very dull. The color was a network of browns, greys, blacks, and I think I might have seen green as well, but a very dull green. The beak was very thick and dull orangish yellow, almost like you would think of when you visualize a parot (save for the color), but more elongated, kind of like an eagle. I guess maybe like a mix between a parot (as far as the thickness goes) and a bald eagle beak, long and thick with a downward point at the end. It had feathers on its head and body, but not it's legs, arms or tail. It didn't have wings, it had arms. The arms were a brownish color with around 3-4 fingers/claws (wasn't close enough to count digits) and were tucked into it's chest up to it's elbows. The arms, compared to the body, seemed to be in proportion. It had a tail, but not one with feathers. The tail was the same color as the arms, had short fur like the arms(or feathers small enough to seem like fur), and had a small tuft of fur or feathers on the end. Kind of like a lion, or pack rat tail would look. The legs were very thick, the same color as the beak and had the feathery-fur I spoke of on the arms, but at the base of the legs going about half-way down. I couldn't see any digits, due to foliage on the forest floor, but I know it had four... I'll explain later.

So, it was a medium sized bird with a large beak, a lion-like tail with a tuft on the end, seemingly well sized arms tucked in, very thick legs. This kind of creature suggests it to be predatory in nature.

I went out to feed my two dogs, which had been inside at the time, sleeping. It was about 7 am and I was just getting ready to leave, something I do right after I feed my dogs. Their dishes were on the side of the house, right by the drop off I talked about. We have a fence that goes around the whole side of the house and at the edge of the fence (about ten-15 feet from the house) is the drop. I heard something in the bushes across the fence. I looked and saw the leaves moving, and I could also hear them brushing against the fence. Then the creature jumped out and stood there for a second or two, cocked its head around a couple of times, then looked right at me and made a strange sounding squawk, then jumped down the incline. I, naturally, freaked out and ran inside, which is the opposite direction of my norm. What furthered my position on this being a predator is the fact that I saw two eyes looking at me, not one, as you would notice when a defensive/prey creature looks.

Now, I have never heard of any creature like that anywhere, other than maybe fairy tails. I wondered if I was just seeing things and what I had seen was just a figment of my imagination. But, when I went back to check for tracks, wanting to know what I saw, I found them. There were four digits, and had long claws with curved ends, indicated by the dig-ins at the end of the claw. I was going to follow the tracks down the incline, but I got a bit shaky and decided to leave it alone. I doubt I would have gotten very far, because the floor of the forest was very thick with pine needles, which makes it hard to sustain any kind of tracking attempt. Although many people don't believe me when I tell them the story, I know what I saw, and I know what I found. I don't believe in mythical creatures (not the ridiculous ones anyway), but I believe I saw something not many people get the chance to see. I'm still boggled by what I experienced on that morning early in my teen years.

So, what do you open-minded people think about this.


EDIT: Sorry, I just remembered an animal I learned about that was a little bit similar. Although I don't remember the name, I do remember that it was prehistoric animal. I still can't say I've ever seen the animal in any books, pictures or anything before that morning.

[Logical Male]

To the post above:

Please dont make the posts so wide like that.

2 pics of this odd creature