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The good ol' Sloth....Ewwww...

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I don't know what this thing is, but damn I smell EVIL....

 

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I don't think this can be explained..

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OHHH, that Bateared Fox....Ohhhhhh ahhhhhhh....

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Originally posted by destroya

camel spiders are the shit. imagine training one of those.

 

check ouut cryptozoology.

 

Urban legends about the camel spider (properly termed a solpugid or solifugid) are as old as the proverbial hills, but they made a huge resurgence when vectored by American troops in Kuwait during Desert Storm. They're not quite as big as your hand (unless you're a five-year-old), and very shy and secretive. They do like to hide in the shadows, and they do run very, very quickly for a critter (they can reach about 10 MPH, the fastest known non-flying arthropod). They make no noise whatsoever, they have no venom whatsoever, and they do not eat flesh--they eat small desert arthropods like crickets and pillbugs. The rumors of their attacking camels, or crawling onto sleeping GIs' faces, apparently stem from one of two things, both of which may be true to some extent: (1) they may use hair to line their burrow when they are about to lay a batch of eggs, said hair being clipped from dead camels or other dead mammals (and a sleeping GI is not much different), and/or (2) dead camels are covered with flies, and crawling over a camel corpse may make for a convenient way to get a good meal of flies.

 

We have camel spiders in the sandy parts of the southwest U.S. and Mexico (in Mexico they are called matevenados), considerably smaller than the Middle Eastern types, but of the same shy, unassuming habits. Completely harmless and beneficial critters, like the desert equivalent of a praying mantis.

 

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Re: Re: Camel Spiders ......aaaaaaaaarrgghgh

 

Originally posted by vinyl junkie

that is beyond creepy...

 

camel spiders.. we call those children of the earth out here in the s.w. they are fucking scary.. and they run around screaming..im pretty sure its the same exact thing.. i was under my dads truck changing the starter and one of those fucking crawled next to me.. had to kill that fucker.. ugh gives me the creeps..kept im not really scared of bugs..but i fear cenipedes.. ugh.

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Meet a few reasons that the oceans are fucking scary.

 

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12-15' unknown spieces of squid

close-up video of it swimming

 

You know the giant squid? These are bigger, and much, much meaner:

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People standing next to an immature colossal squid. This one is only about 20' long.

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Shot of the colossal squid's claws. These things are reportedly like eagle talons, and can turn 360 degrees.

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The head of a sperm whale that fucked with colossal squid.

 

More interesting shit later....

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Originally posted by Sh*nE

The Tasmanian Tiger hasn't been seen since 1936...

 

the "Tasmanian Wolf" on the other hand, has never been seen... I think you have them confused.

 

 

 

Just my 2 cents... although being Australian, it's probably only worth 1cent.

 

ahem

 

http://www.tased.edu.au/tot/fauna/tiger.html

 

The Tasmanian Tiger , also called the Tasmanian Wolf, is a large marsupial native to Tasmania. Most scientists believe it to be extinct, however each year there are about a dozen unconfirmed sightings in remote areas of the state, and several reported sets of Tiger tracks. In January 1995, a Parks and Wildlife Service officer observed a Tiger in the Pyengana region of eastern Tasmania, and being the most reliable sighting in some time, the government launched an investigation to possibly confirm the existence of the Tiger.

 

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