The strangest creature I have ever seen

[canuck grower]

Ok I had no idea where to post this, but this animal is really cool and I had to share it. It's called a star-nosed mole and it has 10x as many nerves in its nose as we have in our entire hand.

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/0600_feature2.html

This is the first time I've heard of it so hopefully it's new to some of you as well. Nature is just awesome sometimes.

[Perp]

That's one ugly animal; interesting, though. Thanks for sharing it.

[muordeeb]

looks like a cross between a rooster and a hairy turtle. fucking weird.:confused:

[misk]

that shits fukt lol
looks like one angry pussy

[fasts102376]

^lmao^

[Abattoir Dream]

lol i think it looks cool man, not sure i'd want a little pink star on the end of my nose but i guess his one serves a good purpose...

its crazy how he can sense prey, double check it, and eat it in a fifth of a second... cool little thing, i want one 4 my garden :)

[Shovelhandle]

cool creature for sure

Shov

[stinkyattic]

Hmmm with claws like that, and so many nerves, how does he pick his nose?

[canuck grower]

very, very carefully I guess eh?! of course with bad ass claws like that you could probably get other animals to do your bidding, nose picking included.

[Abattoir Dream]

hahaha yeh, it should be called the kruger mole, its got big-ass claws, and a screwed up pink face...

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[canuck grower]

ha ha ha. that's awesome. the scary thing is they do kind of resemble one another. which one would you rather have haunt you in your dreams?

[good ol daze]

That thing looks like TNT went off in its mouth.

[canuck grower]

good ol daze: Do you know which episode your avatar is from? That part was awesome and I have every episode of the Simpsons here. I want to see that part again.

[Immolation]

I wonder how a creature evolved like that.I don't know a thing about Moles.I keep snakes and tarantulas.:smokin:

[sleepless]

h p lovecraft would have written stories about that little nightmare, 'the thing on the lawn' or some other dread title.

[Abattoir Dream]

i had a newt before, that had a mutated face, and a big hand lol he was called kruger lol...

[whisky]

im going to have nightmares that is freaky. you sure it isnt photoshop? arghhh had to look again scarry.. haha lol

[BluntMan&Chronic]

dude that shit makes me nervous, like wat other creepy shit is out there i wonder

[canuck grower]

Yeah I'm sure it's not photoshopped man! There's info all over about these bastards, star nosed mole - Google Search (http://www.google.ca/search?q=star+nosed+mole).

[nikweiser]

thats pretty nutty

[Podge_Boro]

omfg taht is some fucnny shit
haha where did you find out about that?

[canuck grower]

It was on digg.com.

[GreenLadyOfDankDowns]

:wtf: Run! It wants to swallow your soul!

[ThE pRoBlEm]

shit is nuts

[orangeman]

Sorta looks like the headcrab from HL2 lol.