Cool life forms a lot of people don't know about.

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02 Apr 2011, 9:03 am

Tonight I found out that "bloody tooth fungus" exists.
The most bizzare looking fungus I've seen.

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And I've always loved these.. Thats survival of the fittest for you!

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02 Apr 2011, 9:09 am

Everyone knows about these... but I just HAD to post it. :p

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02 Apr 2011, 9:37 am

hale_bopp wrote:

Tonight I found out that "bloody tooth fungus" exists.
The most bizzare looking fungus I've seen.

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They remind me a bit of beefsteak mushrooms... they 'bleed' when you cut them.

Yours is much more visually interesting.

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02 Apr 2011, 9:38 am

hale_bopp wrote:

Everyone knows about these... but I just HAD to post it. :p

I could just drown in those pools

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02 Apr 2011, 10:29 am

Molds and fungi are completely fascinating!

Here, have a slime mold...

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02 Apr 2011, 11:14 am

An Axolotl.. Looks strikingly similar to a "Mudkip" from the "Pokemon series" and it's just really cute..

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02 Apr 2011, 11:22 am

He is cute. And I think, technically, Mudkip looks like HIM...

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02 Apr 2011, 12:25 pm

I love axolotls. (And I don't know--or care--what a mudkip is.)

Blobfish.

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02 Apr 2011, 4:52 pm

draelynn wrote:

Molds and fungi are completely fascinating!

Here, have a slime mold...

They make Alphabetti Spaghetti out of that. They teach it how to grow in letter formations.

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02 Apr 2011, 4:54 pm

Zen wrote:

I love axolotls.

(And I don't know--or care--what a mudkip is.)

Blobfish.

What Charlie Brown looks like naked if you remove all his bones and innards.

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02 Apr 2011, 5:27 pm

Tardigrade, a real survivor!

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02 Apr 2011, 9:52 pm

Moog wrote:

hale_bopp wrote:

Everyone knows about these... but I just HAD to post it. :p

I could just drown in those pools

I want one of those, for a pet. :O)

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02 Apr 2011, 9:54 pm

I really like diatoms.

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02 Apr 2011, 10:01 pm

That kind of perfect symmetry in nature always amazes me...

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02 Apr 2011, 10:11 pm

Wallourdes wrote:

Tardigrade, a real survivor!

Hells yeah! The only documented organism to survive the vacuum of space.

The mimic octopus
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygh1-ul6E94[/youtube]

Portia spiders(look them up)

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03 Apr 2011, 2:12 am

hale_bopp wrote:

Everyone knows about these... but I just HAD to post it. :p

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I would love to get high with this guy.

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