Post the most "__blank___ " creature that has ever lived on the planet.? ex. largest

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wahehhehe

can I add something?

these animals also lays eggs, but they feed their young w/ their mammary glands LOL

Forgot about the eggs! Thanks Moy!

-RODION

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the only mamal that lays egg .

...poison spur like a scorpion. Result?

grabe sad diay ni cla ug poison .

the only mamal that can fly are bats .

descendant ni sa whale or entirely fishy fishy jud ni xia?

when this creature exist wala pang ang whale ani , la pa ni evolve mura panahon pani sa dinosaur lapa mamals..

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Eight of the World’s Most Unusual Plants


Weird is relative. What seems weird to me might not seem weird to you. In the plant kingdom, however, there are definitely some species that most people would acknowledge are highly unusual. In the wack spirit of Halloween, some of my findings follow.
1. Rafflesia arnoldii: this parasitic plant develops the world’s largest bloom that can grow over three feet across. The flower is a fleshy color, with spots that make it look like a teenager’s acne-ridden skin. It smells bad and has a hole in the center that holds six or seven quarts of water. The plant has no leaves, stems, or roots.

Eight of the World’s Most Unusual Plants

2. Hydnora africana, an unusual flesh-colored, parasitic flower that attacks the nearby roots of shrubby in arid deserts of South Africa. The putrid-smelling blossom attracts herds of carrion beetles.

3. Dracunculus vulgaris: smells like rotting flesh, and has a burgundy-colored, leaf-like flower that projects a slender, black appendage.

4. Amorphophallus: means, literally, “shapeless *****.” The name comes from the shape of the erect black spadix.

5. Wollemia nobilis: This bizarre-looking tree was known only from 120 million-year-old fossil leaves before 1994; fewer than one hundred exist in the wild. They have strange bark that looks like bubbles of chocolate, multiple trunks, and ferny-looking leaves growing in spirals. They can grow up to 125 feet tall.

6. Welwitschia mirabilis consists of only two leaves and a stem with roots. Its two leaves continue to grow until they resemble an alien life form. The stem gets thicker rather than higher, although this plant can grow to be almost six feet high and twenty-four feet wide. Its estimated lifespan is 400 to 1500 years. Mirabilis grows in Namibia, and is thought to be a relic of the Jurassic period.

7. Drakaea glyptodon: an orchid. It is the color of, and smells like, raw meat. Pollinated by male wasps.

8. Wolffia angusta: the world’s smallest flower. A dozen plants would easily fit on the head of a pin and two plants in full bloom will fit inside a small printed letter “o.”

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One of the largest giant crocodile-like reptiles that ever lived.








Middle Cretaceous (110 million years ago)
Size and Weight:

About 40 feet long and 8 tons
Diet:

Dinosaurs and fish
Distinguishing Characteristics:

Large size; odd protrusion on snout
About Sarcosuchus:

Dubbed "SuperCroc" by the media, Sarcosuchus looked and behaved like a modern crocodile, but it was much, much bigger--about the length of a city bus and the weight of a small whale (or about twice as long and 10 times as heavy as the largest crocodiles living today). Like modern crocs, it's believed that Sarcosuchus lay half-submerged in rivers and streams, tilting its eyes upward to catch sight of prey

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The Largest Dinosaur Ever?

Height: 70 feet (21.4 meters) About the size of a six story building.
Length: 120 feet (36.6 meters) Three long school buses end to end.
Weight: 100 tons
Period: Late Cretaceous
Argentinosaurus, recently discovered in Argentina, will probably will turn out to be the largest dinosaur yet discovered, larger than Ultrasauros or Seismosaurus. although Seismosaurus will likely continue to hold the record for total length due to its extremely long tail, characteristic of Diplodocidae. The cross section of one vertebra found of Argentinosaurus measures over five and one half feet in height. Evolutionary biologists believe that dinosaurs were able to reach such colossal sizes due to a colossal metabolism. At the height of its adolescence, Argentinosaurus was probably able to gain about 100 pounds a day!

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Colossal Squid
No round-up of deep-sea monsters would be complete without recognition of the largest invertebrate in the world – the colossal squid. It’s estimated that this animal can grow up to an impressive 14 metres long, and has a body that’s both wider and heavier than the giant squid.







Those are some fine lips. Don't tell me they're not.
The thing is, if you kissed those lips, you couldn't even get her name. Not even her species! She (and a bunch of other mindblowing creatures) have only recently been discovered in the deepest parts of the deepest parts of the oceans (deep squared YES!!) and can now be seen in a fantastic book called The Deep-The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvian.
I've been checking out photos of strange things from the abyss forever, but this book is the winner. There are creatures that look like spaceships. Creatures that look like space stations. Wonderfully crazy jellyfish. And down in the deepest cracks of Davy Jones' locker, worms step up to the plate when it comes to fashion.







There are of course the requisite deep sea badasses, with mugs that say they WILL throw down with anything in Alien. But the beauties really get me. I am buying this book.
















































6 Pterodaustro


This pterosaur had an unusual set of teeth, similar to the baleen of some whales. It almost certainly used these teeth to eat small, aquatic organisms, similar to the way a flamingo eats brine shrimp. Since flamingos get their pinkish hue from their diet, Pterodaustro might have been pinkish too.

5 Dunkleosteus


One of the scariest creatures ever to live in the ocean, this Devonian fish could grow up to 33 feet long, had an armored face, and likely had one of the strongest bites in history! It used a beak-like mouth instead of teeth to devourer its prey. It was one of the largest of the Placoderms, a group of armored fish that are now extinct.

4 Stethacanthus


Sharks have lasted for over 400 million years. Although they have remained relatively unchanged throughout the fossil record, there are definitely some odd balls. This particular shark had an anvil-shaped dorsal fin, with small spikes on it, as well as having a very bizarre growth on its head. The fin could have been used for courtship or for defense.

3 Helicoprion


This bizarre fossil was originally thought to be an ammonite, as the fossil looked like a spiraling, circular shell. However, after some examination, it was revealed that is wasn’t a shell, but a spiraling set of shark teeth, a “tooth whirl”. Unfortunately, due to a lack of a body (cartilage does not fossilize as well as bone), so a guessing game began. It was guessed to be on the shark’s dorsal fin, tail, or even its snout. Thankfully, a skull of a related shark, Ornithoprion, was found to have a tooth-whirl on its lower jaw. The tooth whirl likely contained all of the shark’s teeth that it would use in its life: its older teeth would be moved away to make room for its newer, better teeth. This does not solve the problem yet, however! The tooth whirl was then placed on the tip of the lower jaw but it turns out that that would actually slow down the shark! Perhaps the most accurate representation is one where the tooth whirl existed deep in its mouth instead.

2 Deinocheirus


The only fossil of this dinosaur is a pair of arms. These arms look like they belonged to an ornithomimid but they were 8 feet long. This means that either Deinocheirus towered over the rest of the ornithomimids (and most theropods, since, regarding proportions, it would have been 40 feet long!) or it simply had very long arms for its body. The use of its arms is debated: some say it used them to tear apart large dinosaurs, others say that the claws were too blunt, so they were used as defensive weapons. Some have even said that Deinocheirus used its huge arms to climb trees, although this hypothesis is widely disregarded. Once again, the lack of a body leaves many questions unanswered.

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been reading some back articles just now, that colossal squid reference pic of yours is just........a juvenile!!!!!!

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could be , but not the mythical sea monster ... hehe

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1. Largest Catfish Ever Caught - Thailand

This Grizzly bear sized catfish measures in at nearly 9 feet long. This might just be the largest freshwater fish ever on record.

Thai villagers tried to keep the giant catfish alive, but despite great efforts, it died and was eaten by the villagers. This species of catfish is listed as "critacally endangered" by the IUCN (World Conservative Union). This catfish specimen was caught in the Chiang Khong district, and is the biggest one caught since 1981. Due to the nature of this rare catch, the World Wildlife Fund is teaming up with the National Geographic Society to study the planet earth's largest freshwater fish.

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^ i thought dli ni tinuod . dako-a sa pantat . largest freshwater fish. .

thx 4 posting , anyone else ..