The Lurkdragon's Lair

bogleech:

muura:

did you know that some the Glossiphonidae family of leeches take care of their babies until they grow up by letting them stick to their mom. That is really cute.

The kind of leeches that suck blood from people don’t take care of their babies though. So that’s not cute.
 
.. except that their babies move like Geometroieda caterpillars, which is like this.. I had one in my hand and it just crawled on and it was SO CUTE I don’t care how much bloods it sucks when it grows up v w v

The one that sucks blood from a duck until it dies are worse anyway (but they also keep their babies with them thehe)

I’d like to add that the small end is actually the head end:

The two black dots are eyes. We can see them on one of the babies, too. Under them is the feeding sucker, which is retracted right now into a wide slit.

In other words:

sutafuzz:

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More Figure Photos 

(via sweatmustache)

Seagull and Jellyfish (by bjsintay)

The great Chozo scientist bestows the gift of life upon her creation……

(via thepredatorblog)

animals-animals-animals:

American Mink (by Greg Schneider)

morhek:

Randall Monroe, XKCD

(via lostbeasts)

lostbeasts:

astronomy-to-zoology:

the Secretary Bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) the closest thing to a Velociraptor you are going to get. Which is ironic as birds are dinosaurs.

this one is stomping out a snake…

video source

*they also have a really cool latin name

relevant!

rhamphotheca:

Terror Birds (family Phorusrhacidae)

Huge flightless terror birds were South America’s top predators for millions of years and at nearly three metres tall certainly lived up to their name. Their modern relatives, the seriemas, kill their prey by smashing it repeatedly against the ground, which may well have been the terror birds’ technique too. The terror birds lived between 27 million and 15,000 years ago and spread into North America when the two continents joined. One of these birds boasts the record for the largest bird skull ever found, measuring 71cm long with a wicked, curved 45cm beak.

(via: BBC Nature)          (illustration by Jaime Chirinos)

Oh wow terror birds!

Terror birds were awesome. I just love how these avian dinosaurs kept their claws - they lived in the easly Cenozoic, right after the great extinction that killed off most of the dinosaurs.

fightingforwhales:

freedomforwhales:

cetaceaninspiration:

caong:

shitprocapssay:

“In the wild, orcas get attacked by sharks unlike in captivity”

Does apex predator not mean anything to pro-caps?

Someone’s been watching to much Jaws.

This is the kind of education that comes out of places like SeaWorld. 

These quotes make me concerned about the type of people we’re dealing with here.

HAHA! Some killer whales eat sharks! Did they not see that documentary about it?

Personally, I think they WAY they eat them is utterly amazing: some cultures of shark-eating orca have figured out that if you flip a shark over quickly, it enters a catatonic state.

thecatdogblog:

Indian Wild Dogs by yathin on Flickr.

(via thepredatorblog)

headlikeanorange:

A peregrine falcon (Wild Arabia - BBC)

galvanfoxtrot:

ralphabetsoup:

omg

(via zada2011)

astronomy-to-zoology:

A Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) catching a Eurasian Minnow (Phoxinus sp.) from the perspective of the fish.

video source

fightingforwhales:

save-lolita:

In Abashiri, Hokkaido a few days ago, fisherman slaughtered a beaked whale. This species is rarely seen, caught for film on the first time earlier this year. Little is known about this species, including how many are left. The beaked whale isn’t protected in Japan from whalers. They consider it to be a “small cetacean”, even though minke whales are prohibited, and the beaked whale is larger than the minke.  (Article. Photo By Thomas Gainard)

Oh dear :(

fuckyeahdinoart:

Coelophysis by ~DeEtta