A lifetime's worth of Cthulhu-esque beastie inspiration?

[mygrimmbrother]

http://www.jamesgunn.com/2009/07/02/evolution-fucked-your-shit-up-the-worlds-50-freakiest-animals/

[uncle fester]

There's some weird stuff on that list, Grimm! The crab the size of a dustbin freaked me a tad though... And what's the point of a soft shelled tortoise?

[mygrimmbrother]

Surely that's just a regular tortoise that's been run over by a truck?

[Mike Gloady]

Very unpleasant.  Proof that god does not exist.  If he did, like any artist, he'd want to just tidy a few things up before calling it finished.

[Dandontdare]

Wasn't Tweak based on that Long-Beaked Echidna?

[locustsofdeath!]

Today I feel like a blobfish.

Didn't realize I did until I saw him there and felt a strange kinship. Thanks, mygrimmbrother.

[mygrimmbrother]

Very unpleasant.  Proof that god does not exist.  If he did, like any artist, he'd want to just tidy a few things up before calling it finished.

Mike, we seem to be on very similar wavelengths - I was just thinking that. If we are created in His image, what the hell was he thinking when he drew up the blueprints for the goblin shark?

[locustsofdeath!]

Maybe god is a madman. Or a practical joker.

[Kerrin]

Geoduck, what's that all about?

[Peter Wolf]

Those deep sea angler fish are beautiful.

Who is James Gunn anyway ?

I did have a look at the website but i wasnt really impressed with the adolescent style content of it.Also it looks like God messed up a bit when he designed the two creatures that are pictured on the home page.

[Jim_Campbell]

There's some weird stuff on that list, Grimm! The crab the size of a dustbin freaked me a tad though... And what's the point of a soft shelled tortoise?

Seen the Coconut Crab before -- I can't find the link right now, but the other blog headlined it under "Honey? It's time to move -- the house belongs to the crab now" and pointed out that anything that had that many legs and could only be killed with a flame-thrower deserved to be renamed the Death Crab, and for humanity to declare war on it.

Cheers

Jim

[mygrimmbrother]

I'm going to bed now and I'm going to dream about that crab. Bastard, scuttling up my house to the bedroom window.

[vzzbux]

Goblin shark. Citizen Snork of the shark world.

And the Tubifex worms what are they all about? Definitely not of this planet. Imagine finding one of those lodged in one of your crevices.






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[Mike Gloady]

Erm, I'd rather not imagine that if it's all the same with you, V me old china.

[Peter Wolf]

Very unpleasant.  Proof that god does not exist.  If he did, like any artist, he'd want to just tidy a few things up before calling it finished.

Well you try designing every single lifeform and the planet itself in 7 days without a few rough edges.

God spent too long on some things and not enough on others.