Top 10 new species of 2011

Started by voixdecoeur, June 08, 2011, 12:20:16 PM

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voixdecoeur

Ummm... You guys know I can't stand spiders. That Darwin's bark spider pretty much sounds like my worst nightmare.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-05/gallery-top-10-new-species-2010
http://www.popsci.com/science/gallery/2011-05/top-10-new-species-2011

There's also a "pancake batfish" which just makes me smile, and a bacterium that is currently nomming on the Titanic.
Just for today.

Oniya

I think the jumping cockroach is the stuff of nightmares, although finding a leech on one's nasal membranes is right up there.
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Lilias

Quote from: Oniya on June 08, 2011, 12:39:15 PM
I think the jumping cockroach is the stuff of nightmares

If I were still living in Greece, I'd be fumigating my room before going to bed. For sure.
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Avis habilis

I dunno ... the six-foot carnivorous lizards with a paralyzing bite creeping through the trees overhead are a little worrisome.

Oniya

A six foot lizard does not scurry across your foot without warning, or leap out of your cupboard when you're getting your breakfast.
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voixdecoeur

Quote from: Oniya on June 08, 2011, 03:06:41 PM
A six foot lizard does not scurry across your foot without warning, or leap out of your cupboard when you're getting your breakfast.

oh god, what a valid point.

::is now skittish around her cupboards::
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Lilias

Quote from: voixdecoeur on June 08, 2011, 03:11:44 PM
oh god, what a valid point.

::is now skittish around her cupboards::

In my mum's kitchen, in Athens, we have a resident gecko (an albino, no less), who helps with pest control, but I'm not sure even Gordon would manage such critters. >_<
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To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
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and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
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Oniya

I would cheerfully share my kitchen with a gecko.  Little lizards are cute. 

(And big lizards can be stopped by closing the front door.)

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And in that endeavor, laziness will not do." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think we're never gonna win this war
Robin Williams-Dead Poets Society ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think your world's gonna fall apart
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Lithos

I would still rather not have that one at my door x.x
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"The bark spider spins the largest orb-style webs in the world with a silk that is ten times stronger than Kevlar"

Clearly this is where the military's research department should focus its attention.
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