Animals You May Not Have Known Existed

[Zombi_Jeezus]

Those goblin sharks are straight out of a nightmare.


Mantis shrimp are pretty badass. They've been known to crack aquariums with a single blow of their claws.

Mantis shrimp are commonly separated into two distinct groups determined by the type of claw they possess:

• Smashers possess a much more developed club and a more rudimentary spear (which is nevertheless quite sharp and still used in fights between their own kind); the club is used to bludgeon and smash their meals apart. The inner aspect of the terminal portion of the appendage can also possess a sharp edge, used to cut prey while the mantis shrimp swims.
• Spearers, on the other hand, are armed with spiny appendages topped with barbed tips, used to stab and snag prey.

Both types strike by rapidly unfolding and swinging their raptorial claws at the prey, and can inflict serious damage on victims significantly greater in size than themselves. In smashers, these two weapons are employed with blinding quickness, with an acceleration of 10,400 g (102,000 m/s2 or 335,000 ft/s2) and speeds of 23 m/s from a standing start.[10] Because they strike so rapidly, they generate vapor-filled bubbles in the water between the appendage and the striking surface—known as cavitation bubbles.[10] The collapse of these cavitation bubbles produces measurable forces on their prey in addition to the instantaneous forces of 1,500 newtons that are caused by the impact of the appendage against the striking surface, which means that the prey is hit twice by a single strike; first by the claw and then by the collapsing cavitation bubbles that immediately follow.[11] Even if the initial strike misses the prey, the resulting shock wave can be enough to stun or kill.

The impact can also produce sonoluminescence from the collapsing bubble. This will produce a very small amount of light within the collapsing bubble, although the light is too weak and short-lived to be detected without advanced scientific equipment. The light emission probably has no biological significance but is rather a side-effect of the rapid snapping motion. Pistol shrimp produce this effect in a very similar manner.

Smashers use this ability to attack snails, crabs, molluscs, and rock oysters, their blunt clubs enabling them to crack the shells of their prey into pieces. Spearers, on the other hand, prefer the meat of softer animals, like fish, which their barbed claws can more easily slice and snag.

 

[Pdiddy]

For one it is resistant to cancer. Naked Mole Rat

 

[DerrtySouthpaw]

i used to have 2 red pacus. both them fukkers died by hopping their big asses out the fish tank

 

[Tombstone]

wtf at the star nosed mole. I would punt the fukk out of that lil nikka if I ever saw That.


Or just run away cuz he weirdo lookin

 

[Dzali OG]

I was a voracious reader of nature as a youth. Was familiar with all them.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Who's man is this?

 

[MaxPain]

So did they find Pikachu yet

 

[BlackMajik]

Who's man is this?

Lmao

 

[Supa cat]

Who's man is this?

Even fish gotta deal with trannies smh

 

[Passaro]

Pacu fish literally making the

 

[Swirv]

That pacu fish makes me think we did start in the sea. It makes sense if you look at sperm.

Maybe Bigfoot is real

 

[Trill McClay]

Breh like

 

[Hyperion]

 

[Misreeya]

The central and South American animal called the "Sloth"

 

[SunZoo]

Genetic experiments.