ftcreature:

archiemcphee:

Listen closely, the Department of Awesome Natural Wonders has something very important to tell you: this surly crustacean wears hairy mittens!

It’s called the Chinese Mitten Crab and it’s 100% real.

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Native to eastern Asia and also known as the Shanghai hairy crab, this unusual creature is able to survive in both salt and fresh water. It’s considered a delicacy in Shanghai cuisine but also an invasive species in Europe and North America.

Click here to learn more about the Chinese Mitten Crab.

Photos by Blickwinkel/Alamy and lancashireinvasives.org respectively.

[via /r/awwwtf and Featured Creature]

thanks for rebloggin with credit 🙂 

worldofwhales:

blackbearmagic:

safran28:

blackbearmagic:

wizardmage16:

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‘Fantastic Fin’ by Jenny Varley – February 2012 (fin whale)

Discover Wildlife – Your Photos: Winners’ gallery 2011–2012

um. excuse me? what?! is? THAT!!?

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Does it want to kill me ? Because I love it and I wanna swim with the large sea spaghetti, but not if it doesn’t want to love me back .

so long as you’re not a krill or small schooling fish, sea spaghetti has no intention of hurting you

sea spaghetti’s esophagus is also roughly the diameter of a large grapefruit, so even if it got that cockamamie idea into its 3.5 ton brain, it wouldn’t actually be able to do anything to you

however, per the Marine Mammal Protection Act, it is illegal for you to approach the seaghetti noodle. that said, if sea spaghetti approaches you, I believe it is okay

Important facts about the sea spaghetti.