Behold, the awesome Amblypygids! It’s a whole gallery of lovely photos of these harmless little arthropods that will have you cooing over their cuteness.
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Behold, the awesome Amblypygids! It’s a whole gallery of lovely photos of these harmless little arthropods that will have you cooing over their cuteness.
The molting whipscorpion really reminds me of Babylon Five’s shadow warships.
D’awwwwwwww!
Goddammit, I was about to go to bed, now I’ll have nightmares!
I thought the moulting one looked like those “alien” facehugger things.
mmmmm, chelicerates.
That brings back memories of the time I touched a spider with a stick, and like a 1000 baby spiders scurried off. [shudder]
mmmmm, chelicerates.
or at least chelicerae?
to be distinguished from the perhaps much more tasty chelae?
Fascinating little animal, can’t exactly call it “cute” though.
I am not phobic of arthropods, but still my initial instinctive reaction with these would be to keep a little distance.
Jumping spiders I do find cute and funny. Perhaps because of the cartoonish big eyes in proportion to their bodies. Also because the ones I usually encounter are so tiny overall as to be completely non-threatening.
OT but PZ, have you seen this? Octopi rule!!
http://deepseanews.com/2012/10/octopus-steals-food-and-casually-wrestles-shark/
Those things are so cool. I’ve always wanted to see one in real life, but I don’t think I’ve ever lived anywhere within their natural range. Can you imagine just walking outside and flipping over a rock or something and suddenly there’s a tailless whipscorpion just hanging out? That would be simultaneously amazing and terrifying.
When I was little my mom was a biologist (she later switched to teaching). She studied spiders, so I have a bit of a soft spot in my heart for arachnids.
Awww… arachnid babies. So much more agreeable than human ones, at least when it comes to noise.
Is it wrong that I think they look like delicious candy?
Very, very cool.
Is it wrong that I think they look like delicious candy?
like Popplers?
D: I took a look at the site and all I can say is: holy crap, it’s the animal on which Prof. Moody demonstrated the Unforgivable curses at Hogwarts. Those freaking things are real?!