Holy MOLY! Huge Catfish feeds an ENTIRE Village!

[wondergirl9847]

Sweet Moses, that is huge! And that stingray, wow!! That exploding whale...ew, gross.

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by David

Holy Christ on a flipper!!

You know, I would not personally partake of that catfish. I don't like to eat of freaks of nature. It's obviously some sort of mutant. Its flesh must be composed of mutant cells with strange habits.

David, that is an actual real species...in fact there are several extra large species of fish in that part of the world apparently. its not radioactive!

[irishgrl]

Link

Killer caterpillar stalks snails

The caterpillar is unique to Hawaii
A team of scientists has discovered a tiny caterpillar in Hawaii that binds snails with silk webbing before devouring them whole.

The caterpillar starts munching at the wide opening of the helpless snail's shell and continues until there is nothing left, Science magazine reports.

The creature is a first because scientists have never before witnessed a caterpillar eating a snail.

The team wants to know why this strange caterpillar lives only in Hawaii.

"Caterpillars and terrestrial snails co-occur widely on all the continents where they are present, but only in Hawaii have caterpillars evolved to hunt snails," Daniel Rubinoff and William Haines, from the University of Hawaii, wrote.

Why Hawaii?


This provides fresh evidence for the importance of isolation in the evolution of novel traits
Dr Rubinoff and Dr Haines, University of Hawaii
The caterpillars of the newly discovered species Hyposmocoma molluscivora are the first to be seen using silk to paralyse their prey.

"Although all caterpillars have silk glands, this predatory caterpillar uses silk in a spider-like fashion to capture and immobilise prey," Dr Rubinoff and Haines wrote.

When it comes across a suitable snail, the juvenile moth will spin a web anchoring the snail's shell to the leaf it is sitting on.

The larva then stretches its body out of its own silk jacket and pursues the retreating snail to the end of its shell, where there is no escape.

Scientists want to know why Hawaii has more than its share of strange creatures
Scientists are curious to notice that this unique predatory behaviour seems to occur nowhere else on Earth.

Since the Hawaiian islands are the most remote place in the world, scientists are tempted to conclude that isolation is a key factor in the development of unusual hunting strategies, although it is not quite clear why.

"Specialised predatory behaviour by lepidopteron larvae, an extremely rare phenomenon worldwide, has independently arisen at least twice in Hawaii," Dr Haines and Rubinoff wrote.

"[This] provides fresh evidence for the importance of isolation in the evolution of novel traits."

[GateandGarden]

Now that is even stranger, Mary. I had assumed that all caterpillars were herbivores and this is bizarre. It's like it seems wrong to me for them to be eating other animals. You're good at finding us weird **** to go to, huh?

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

Now that is even stranger, Mary. You're good at finding us weird **** to go to, huh?

heh heh..I ARE! I ARE!

[ryan8472]

Now that's a ****ing big fish! How did they catch it?

[greatdarkwing]

You see, I don't mind swimming in the ocean with sharks and stuff.....but giant catfish....GROSS!!

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by greatdarkwing

You see, I don't mind swimming in the ocean with sharks and stuff.....but giant catfish....GROSS!!

the weird thing is, their "whiskers" are capable of "shocking" people....they are not just passive fish, they DO protect themselves....

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by ryan8472

Now that's a ****ing big fish! How did they catch it?

F*cking big bait?

- Jake

[Miss Vicky]

This article? Just makes me sad. Imagine how old that fish must've been to get that big. And now it's dead. Gee, let's research rare species of fish and kill some in the process 'cause that's real helpful to their survival.

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by Miss Vicky

This article? Just makes me sad. Imagine how old that fish must've been to get that big. And now it's dead. Gee, let's research rare species of fish and kill some in the process 'cause that's real helpful to their survival.

Im sure they didnt intend for it to die....and I read somewhere else that they tried to save its eggs (it was a female)

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by Miss Vicky

This article? Just makes me sad. Imagine how old that fish must've been to get that big. And now it's dead. Gee, let's research rare species of fish and kill some in the process 'cause that's real helpful to their survival.

That was how I felt, too. It's great that they discovered it but it's awful that it had to die.