Showing posts with label Creature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creature. Show all posts

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Barreleye

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoygy-8PTtU

With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barrel eye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orb like lenses.

Butterfly and Trees, Madidi National Park, Bolivia

Butterfly and Trees, Madidi National Park, Bolivia

Photograph by Joel Sartore

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

World's Biggest Bunny

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Darius is the world’s largest bunny. At only 2 years old he is 49 lbs and stretching to a length of 4 feet, 3 inches from nose to puffy tail! His owner, Annette Edwards, plans to bulk the bunny up another lbs! He has a pretty good diet with 12 carrots a day, and hay, cabbage, apples, and of course rabbit mix. Darius is now on tour all over the world, he is even bringing out a book for children.

Darius is insured for $1.6 million, has an agent and travels with a bodyguard who reportedly makes about $100,000 a year just to wrangle a rabbit.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SbADYnhHtGg]

Monday, December 24, 2012

Leptocephalus (Transparent eel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee7lhNOCGhY

Leptocephalus is the flat and transparent larva of the eel, marine eels, and other members of the Superorder Elopomorpha. This is the most diverse group of teleosts, containing 801 species over the span of 24 orders, 24 families, and 156 genera. It is supposed that this group arose in the Cretaceous period over 140 million years ago. Fishes with a leptocephalus larva stage include the most familiar eels such as the conger, moray eel, and garden eel, and the freshwater eels of the family Anguillidae, plus more than 10 other families of lesser-known types of marine eels. These are all true eels of the order Anguilliformes. The fishes of the other four traditional orders of elopomorph fishes that have this type of larva are more diverse in their body forms and include the tarpon, bonefish, spiny eel, and pelican eel.

Friday, December 21, 2012

Friday, December 7, 2012

Amphioctopus marginatus (Coconut Octopus)

Amphioctopus marginatus (Coconut Octopus)

Amphioctopus marginatus is a medium-sized cephalopod belonging to the genus Amphioctopus. It is found in tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean. It commonly preys upon shrimp, crabs, and clams, and displays unusual behaviour, including bipedal walking and gathering and using coconut shells and seashells for shelter.