Source: marinefishdirect.com.au
Victims often don’t even feel it when they’ve been bitten by a blue-ringed octopus. These tiny cephalopods are only the size of a golf ball, but the amount of venom they carry is enough to kill 26 human adults. The key toxin in the mix is tetrodotoxin, which paralyzes the victim’s muscles, including their diaphragm. Once bitten, they have to be connected to a ventilator so that they can breathe. There is no known antivenom to treat the bite, meaning that those afflicted must wait for around 15 hours as the toxin wears off.
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Some Kaiju close ups! Every day I’m amazed at how complex these animals are. It seems like overkill how many little jigsaw pieces go into them, especially their mouths, what’s up with that? A crayfish is a sarcastic rainbow of an animal with hard mean bits and sharp edges all over, with some nonsensical furry whiskers in seemingly random places and long graceful antennae that seem like more trouble than they’re worth.
Though they superficially resemble the common land dwelling insect the cockroach (and like the cockroach will consume anything in front of them) the crayfish does not scurry and hide when set upon but rather takes arms against a sea of troubles and endeavors (occasionally with success) to inflict bodily harm on the attacker. Though it stands little chance of winning, it ensures its captor’s victory is a costly one.
Every day I stop at her tank to feed her, and every day I admire her tenacity, ferocity, complexity and otherwordly beauty. Little Kaiju blue, little cherax quadricarinatus, I love you.
(via moreanimalia)
Source: zooophagous
Source: floralls
There’s an astronaut in a gorilla suit floating around the International Space Station
We have no idea why this suit was deemed essential enough to send into zero gravity, or why Kelly himself found it personally important. But it’s kind of heartwarming to know that even astronauts on the ISS share the ability to keep completely useless and unwieldy items around the home.
- Kain: Raziel, I have discovered a television show of the utmost quality.
- Raziel: What?
- Kain: It is called..."The MUPPETS". It is about a wretched green goblin as he struggles against the tyrannous machinations of fate.
- Raziel: Are you talking about Kermit the Frog?
- Kain: Fate is, as ever, represented by a grotesque porcine monstrosity that consumes the lives of all who stray into her path.
- Raziel: Kain, I really do not think that is what the show is about.
- Kain: My favorite is the feeble creature known as..."Fozzy". I find his pathetic antics to be quite...
- Kain: *deep inhale*
- Kain: ...relatable.
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