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    The "monster" under the bed.

    'A Brazilian wondering spider stores its young under the bed'


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    Quote Posted by DaveToo (here)
    Quote Posted by Jill (here)
    A mother's "love" - not pretty:
    'After eggs hatch, Stegodyphus lineatus stops eating and vomits 40% of internal guts onto own face, allowing spiderlings to feast on the mixture. Once that’s gone, spiderlings pierce her abdomen and consume what is left until she dies.'.
    Thanks for posting Jill.

    I visit the Animals are Magical thread from time to time and do think about animals.

    I think a lot about insects for some strange reason, probably because I have quite a lot in my house!

    So where do you folks draw the line?
    Do you also think insects are magical?

    How about spiders?

    How about mealy bugs?

    How about centipedes?

    How about ear wigs?

    How about mosquitoes?

    Do you show all of those animals mercy? Be honest?

    When I made my initial post (above), I can now see I posed an inappropriate question when bringing up some insects.
    "Do you also think insects are magical".

    I was just comparing them to the cute/cuddly/majestic animals that were being predominantly discussed
    in the 'Animals are Magical' thread.

    The title of my thread was not what we have now. (Are some animals not very magical?)
    It was quite different. Bill made the change to the new title.

    I would like to request a more appropriate title for this thread.
    Something along the lines of:

    Are some animals less cute/cuddly/majestic than others?

    Because that was the intention of my thread from the start.
    I firmly believe that ALL animals are equally MAGICAL!!!

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    I think fireflies are quite magical. See my post here:https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1505159
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    I saw this guy for the first time the other night. Yikes! Thought it just might be an alien bug, but a search showed it was a Dobsonfly.
    It was around 3 inches (note the small bug 2nd picture bottom left for size comparison.)

    I really hope I don't see these Dobsonflies ever again...

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    Nicotine addicted crab here.


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    'A mother wolf spider carrying her nopelings.'

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    I think this belongs here, but (thankfully!) this animal is extinct.

    https://explorersweb.com/megalodon-b...n-known-before

    The Real Jaws: The World’s Largest-Ever Shark Was Even Bigger and Faster Than We Thought



    Few extinct aquatic animals have captured the popular imagination like the biggest shark of all time: the megalodon.

    Much remains unknown about this behemoth that died out three million years ago. Scientists know more about the T-Rex, which went extinct 65 million years ago, for one simple reason: Sharks don’t have many bones.

    Now, advances in 3D mapping have produced new ways of gauging the actual size and shape of the megalodon. The results? It was likely even larger, faster, and hungrier than previously thought.

    A fossilized megalodon tooth (left) vs. a great white tooth.

    That’s the message from a new 3D model published in the journal Science Advances last week. In the past, estimates of the megalodon’s size varied from 10 to 18 metres.

    That’s big enough to strike a mental image — about the length of a standard bowling lane. But the updated vision of this ancient super-predator makes it seem even more terrifying. The new model shows a 16m-long shark that weighed as much as 67 tonnes. And it might not have even been full grown.

    To create the model, London Royal Veterinary College anatomist John Hutchinson worked with Catalina Pimiento, a paleontologist at Swansea University in Wales.

    They relied on a rare megalodon spine stored in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Other data included megalodon teeth and a full-body scan of a great white shark — the megalodon’s closest living relative.

    The study’s authors said it’s possible the megalodon could grow even larger, given that scientists have discovered fossilized vertebrae 50 percent larger than the bone this model used.

    The authors drew from multiple sources to create their 3D model of the megalodon.

    That means megalodons could have grown up to 19m long. That’s as big as a humpback whale but still smaller than the 23m shark depicted in the blockbuster “The Meg.”

    An orca in five bites

    In one of the study’s tastiest details, the authors said their estimates suggest the megalodon could chow down an eight-metre orca whale in just five gnashes of its massive teeth.

    While certainly an intriguing proposition for The Meg sequel coming out next year, the detail reflects the growing understanding that the megalodon likely couldn’t sustain its enormous size on a diet of seal (as some fossil evidence suggests). It would need whales to survive.

    The study also concluded that the megalodon’s average cruising speed was nearly five kilometres per hour, faster than any other shark. Its top speed is unknown.

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    I found this to be quite a photo catch - hard to see the poor snake's predicament though:
    A snake being swallowed by a frog


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    Each breath a gift...
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    This may qualify as less cute. Perhaps a Pfizer escapee, or a beloved Australian critter?

    A million galaxies are a little foam on that shoreless sea. ~ Rumi

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    Quote Posted by Franny (here)
    This may qualify as less cute. Perhaps a Pfizer escapee, or a beloved Australian critter?

    Beyond creepy - looks like something on top of something else

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    These two are a close second to the one above; different planet perhaps.

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    I wonder what these critters ate? Something big!

    'A colossal millipede fossil, comparable in size to a car, has been discovered on a beach in northern England. The fossil belongs to a creature known as Arthropleura, which lived during the Carboniferous Period roughly 326 million years ago.'


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    Quote Posted by Eva2 (here)
    I wonder what these critters ate? Something big!

    'A colossal millipede fossil, comparable in size to a car, has been discovered on a beach in northern England. The fossil belongs to a creature known as Arthropleura, which lived during the Carboniferous Period roughly 326 million years ago.'

    Back in those days days the Earth had a much higher oxygen content due to the extreme amount of plant life blanketing the globe. The earth constantly goes between extremes of oxygen and co2 - when co2 is high, plant life flourishes and gives off oxygen and when oxygen gets high, animal life flourishes and gives off co2. It is a pendulum swing between these two states. Right now the earth needs more plant life, but in the grand scheme our co2 is relatively low compared to high points in these pendulum swings. To say that humans have created the worst co2 situation in earth's history is laughed at extremely hard by scientists who study these things.

    Most invertebrate animal size is determined by two factors - oxygen levels and age. because they don't have lungs, their maximum size is partly dependent on how much they can absorb. the higher the oxygen content, the more they can absorb, the larger they can grow. That's why we don't have giant spiders, and giant insects, but in the ancient past we had dragonflies with 6 ft wings spans and 7 ft long centipedes. The earth is always changing ...
    When you are one step ahead of the crowd, you are a genius.
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    Quote Posted by DeDukshyn (here)
    Quote Posted by Eva2 (here)
    I wonder what these critters ate? Something big!

    'A colossal millipede fossil, comparable in size to a car, has been discovered on a beach in northern England. The fossil belongs to a creature known as Arthropleura, which lived during the Carboniferous Period roughly 326 million years ago.'

    .Most invertebrate animal size is determined by two factors - oxygen levels and age. because they don't have lungs, their maximum size is partly dependent on how much they can absorb. the higher the oxygen content, the more they can absorb, the larger they can grow. That's why we don't have giant spiders, and giant insects, but in the ancient past we had dragonflies with 6 ft wings spans and 7 ft long centipedes. The earth is always changing ...

    Thank the Creator I've incarnated in these times...
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    Huge moose kicks Alaska woman in the head after sneaking up on her

    A woman in Anchorage, Alaska was kicked in the head by a moose while walking her dog last week, and it was all caught on camera.





    https://www.foxnews.com/us/huge-moos...d-sneaking-her
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    Sometimes we need to pause and think what our real purpose is. Yes, that's right - to invent a squirrel proof bird-feeder. This one surprises the squirrel but also drops its nuts in the spinning chaos, so I'm not sure it's the best solution because the spinning allows the squirrel to get nuts out of it; it won't end well. The humour is huge though. You should see the look on the squirrels face.

    Here the not so magical creature are the birds which are beautiful but horrible when you look at their actual behaviour. I can't blame the squirrel. Humans are just as baroquely ineffective as we always have been, it hardly needs a special mention. I think the squirrel wins this one.


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    🐿🛒Get it 👉 https://thecaze.com/bird-feeder

    <video of a squirrel jumping onto a birdfeeder, by the wireframe bird-perch, then the wire bird-perch spins round underneath the birdfeeder, and the squirrel has too much centrifugal force to be able to take the free food and has to let go>

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    Critters, lol. Green Mambas count as not so cute/cuddly/majestic, even though they are way less hazardous than Black Mambas, normally.

    Like the lady said, on a field trip with Nick Zentner, they all got personalities. Will edit that vid in later.



    Edit to add: Adrian Slade, lover and observer of Rattlesnakes in The PNW of the USA:

    Rattlesnake Den with Adrian Slade

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    “CWU's Nick Zentner learns from graduate student Adrian Slade at an active rattlesnake den east of Ellensburg, Washington. Filmed on April 26, 2023. The first Adrian video from October 15, 2022 is here:

    • Rattlesnake Research with Adrian Slade“

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    Tell me this is not an Alien!

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