The environmental Web Ecoist blog has a selection of animals most bizarre, scary and weird. Take a look at some of them
Strange beast
The environmental Web Ecoist blog has a selection of animals most bizarre, scary and weird. Take a look at some of them
COCONUT CRABS.
Jesus I didn't know they got THAT big.
I once started writing a story (well a serial that didn't get anywhere but I still have the ideas around) where one of the characters, a Neurologist-MD/Geneticist/(Mad Doctor, spoilers~) had coconut crabs as pets. The doctor was named after an obscure French poet who had an awesome name for a neurologist (DE NERVAL, a nom de plume but still awesome), and he had a pet lobster called Thibault. The coconut crab was called Lucien. There would have been genetically modified supercrabs if I ever had got to that point, a few stories later after the first one...
Very cool site.
Cool link. It reminded me of the Barry the Giant Sea Worm story that came out a little while ago.
Barry:
Cheers,
Tim
Paratime Design Cartography
"Do infants have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultery?" - Groucho Marx
YUCK! - That is one ugly beastie
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
re Sea Worm - Very cool!
I can't believe the comments from people who said "its ugly" they should get rid of it!
If it was 20ft and growing a foot a day I'd agree. What a compelling beastie. If it were close I'd go to see it. Doubt it do more than hide though.
Sigurd
Dollhouse Syndrome = The temptation to turn a map into a picture, obscuring the goal of the image with the appeal of cute, or simply available, parts. Maps have clarity through simplification.
--- Sigurd
seems to me a lovely worm
New monster for tonights game!!
Thanks Turgenev, I was looking for a borrower that a bunch of Kobolds were using to dig some new tunnels and you just gave it to me
just need to make it about 4 foot dia , give it some stats, and Voila - instant player freak-out
Art Critic = Someone with the Eye of an Artist, Words of a Bard, and the Talent of a Rock.
Please take my critiques as someone who Wishes he had the Talent
I love the bit that says the sea worm is capable of inflicting permanent numbness on humans with its sting. Wow! That worm must have some Carrion Crawler blood in it.
Cheers,
Tim
Paratime Design Cartography
"Do infants have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultery?" - Groucho Marx
Yeah good pic that worm thing. Some interesting beasts are pretty ugly...
A site oft quoted as being a good resource but I haven't been there much is this one...
http://www.cryptomundo.com/
Found the site hard to nav. Try this link to it.
http://www.cryptomundo.com/sitemap/
Ohh look a long post about the Tengu - wheres GP ???
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/tengu/
Last edited by Redrobes; 04-17-2009 at 09:04 PM.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
