Somebody has a weird obsession with hybridizing terrestrial and aquatic animals, but even more strangely, there isn’t a single cephalopod in the whole collection.
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Nifty-keen. So… what’s that blue spirally thing on the snail?
My favourite was the walrus-monkey.
Ditto Bronze Dog, what is the blue thing?
..blue spirally thing ..
The Creator playing with his Spirograph set.
Irmi
That cat is going to give me nightmares.
I want a lobster snake. More than almost anything else in the world.
I wonder if some of those were disturbing because I know what the animal is supposed to look like or because it was just disturbing on its own?
Dissapointedly, I saw no monkepotamus (Drew Carey Show) – The digestive output of a hippopotamus combined with the throwing ability of a monkey!
The hippocrab (crabopotamus?) is pretty cool though.
The blue spirally thing is a Christmas tree worm–an annelid.
This one is not as vivid blue, but gives you a good look at it: http://www.divegallery.com/Chr_tree_worm3.htm
I’m about to start teaching a 100 level non-majors course on Biodiversity. These images are going to come in handy. As snarks of course.
Thanks for the link.
Here’s some more:
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=11182&start=1&end=10&display=photoshop
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=10890&start=1&end=10&display=photoshop
There’s plenty more there, too. Just use the related contests dropdown. Some of them are very good.
Cool, I wish I had a pengphin.
Oh, man. Greg beat me to it.
King Aardvark: “My favourite was the walrus-monkey.”
I didn’t see that one. I saw a walrus and a chimp, but there were no monkeys at all.
Someone really ought to give a manta ray a monarch butterfly paintjob in real life. It would be the envy of Davy Jones’ locker.
I like the dog-seal and the monarch-ray, myself.
that blue and gold picture looks an awful lot like my scarlet when she’s molting.
I most definitely do NOT want a lobster snake. However, it would be fun to have a few fishkets hopping around the yard.
“Cool, I wish I had a pengphin.”
Was it a pengphin or a pengca? Hard for me to tell.
Coming up with names is almost more fun than looking at the pictures.
Would it be all that wrong for someone to send or refer that page to an angry Creationist/IDer when they come in here bragging about how no one has ever found a specimen with transitional traits? Really though, would it? ;^)
I think it’s a penguin/orca hybrid, yeah. But pengphin works better than pengca. ANything with penguins in them really, would rock. Except a penger (Penguin/tiger). That might spell doom for the world. Cute and deadly!
After having had this in the back of my mind all afternoon, I can’t believe no one did an antlion.
And anyone who doesn’t want a lobster snake is clearly insane. Tastes like chicken, and is good with butter and lemon juice!
Unlike some of the others, the penguin-orca is sort of plausible — not as a hybrid obviously, I mean as a possible animal. Penguins are already semi-aquatic — just wipe out the orcas (which eat penguins) and give the birds a few million years…..
And has Jon Pieret seen picture #7?
Fun! I liked the pet goldfish/whatever on the harness the best. They are all beautifully done, though. Mad skillz.
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I kinda like the ostrich-anenome cross.
The penguin did remind me of Dougal Dixon’s “After Man” in which he postulates the penguins evolving into baleen-whale-like forms.
Would the seal-o-dog be related to the seal-o-canth by any chance? and being a creature of the depths I would have at least expected it to have cross bred with a water dog instead of that frumpy looking beast.
This reminds me of two things:
in my enthomology examination we obtained specimen wich were build of head thorax and abdomen from different insect species. I guess this was due to the fact that our supervisor was from Bavaria. There is a myth in this regio about some strange creatures the so called Wolpertinger. Is this evidence for ID? You may have a look in wikipedia and in google images:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Wolpertinger&btnG=Google+Search&sa=N&tab=wi
I think it’s a penguin/orca hybrid, yeah. But pengphin works better than pengca.
actually, pengphin is just fine, as orcas are classified as belonging to Delphinidae (dolphin family) anyway.
Where are the bushseaslug and the cheneybarracuda?
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Sparc that wolpertinger looks like an airborne distant relative of the Jackalope.
Professor Myers wrote, ” there isn’t a single cephalopod in the whole collection.”
Maybe they’re the ones making the hybrids?
I’m creeped out by the shat, too.
Speaking of being creeped out–where are the creature/Disco Boy hybrids? We could have some fun with that!
Dembski could be a merman. Or a manicorn. Or an inchworm! (“Measuring the marigolds/you and your arithmetic…”) How cute, I could keep him in a jar! Wells–well, I don’t know what to suggest for Wells. Some kind of haploid, anyway. That would give me more of a sense of humor about his stupid books.
Phillip Johnson–diploid to Wells’ haploid, I guess. What busy little bees they are. Ann Coulter? How about half an eyebabe…
And Behe! What would Behe be? Of course, a bacterium! A Behecoccus. Sans flagellum.
If you doubt this is true, how is there are LOBSTER SNAKES + EYEBABIES!
I’ve always been creeped out by the Shat, from Star Trek all the way up to the Priceline commercials.
This greatly reminds me of China Miéville’s novels. A Remade hippo.
So the question is, if all things aren’t related and they aren’t constrained by prior descent and they were separately created, where are all these wonderful critters (a contraction of “creatures,” created things)? How about the girl with ram’s horns in Worth1000.com?
Speaking of glaring omissions, This week’s “What’s New” pointed out that Evolutionary Biology was left out of the list of university majors eligible for smart grants. (What’s New, 2006-08-25, Item 2)
Years ago, I saw a comedian portraying a dim-witted athlete doing an endorsement for UNICEF, under the impression that unicefs are “like unicorns, only they’ve got a big willy in the middle of their forehead. And they desperately need your money. To buy hats.”
If I knew how to photoshop, I’d be creating a uniceph for PZ right now.