February 2011
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[Note: this is disturbing footage from Animal Planet’s River Monster series. Also, apologies for the advertisement]
CANDIRU
Although lurid anecdotes of the Amazonian Candiru fish swimming up human urine streams abound, there is only one documented case of a candiru entering a human orifice. In this instance, the victim had a candiru swim into his urethra as he urinated while thigh-deep in...
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VAMPIRE SQUID (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) →
madasamarinebiologist:
creature-feature:
Deep Sea Monster Cephalopod
Phylogenetic relict = the only species left in it’s group of closely related species
Max. length = 3O cm
No threat to humans [to be fair though, if you were able to visit the depths, 6OO - 9OO m, where this squid lives, and…
Called Vampire Squid as their arms are “caped” with webbing the underside of...
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