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Category Archives: Wildlife
it came from the GALLERY!!!
The online gallery of Ray Harryhausen creatures at ChineseJetPilot, that is.
If you spent your childhood locked in a Belgian basement as the sex slave of a roving frites merchant, you will need to be informed that Ray Harryhausen was and remains the greatest practitioner of stop-motion creature animation in the history of film.
This is not as cineaste-nerdy as it sounds. Harryhausen was, in fact, frickin’ cool. His Eohippus, for instance, from the immortal classic The Valley of Gwanjii, is still capable of making the little children cry.
And some of the big ones, too.
But of this, we must not speak.
We must, instead, direct you to this exhaustive index of the entire Harryhausen menagerie, with bonus Quicktime video snippets from the films in which they appeared. Frankly, if you prefer Allosaurs to Anistons, this is website totally stomps that lame old Oscars website.
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albino octo
This weird critter is a vent octopus, ie one that hangs around geothermal vents in the seabed, looking for tasty crustaceans upon which to nosh. It’s true what the prosthesis designer on POTC2 believed: pale tentacles totally outclass mottled purple on the Ick Scale.
Pharyngula has some nifty images and explanation of an albino octo feeding frenzy at the local All You Can Eat in the Marianas Trench. Tube Worms on special!
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ancient fossil shark filmed off Tokyo
This female frilled shark, a tattered and battered yet still magnificent and intimidating remnant of an ancient and presumed extinct species, surfaced near Tokyo yesterday. Unfortunately it died within minutes of its capture by workers from the Awashima Marine Park. Over 1.6 meters in length and of apparently advanced age, the shark is presumed to have been driven to the surface from its normal habitat between 600 and 1000 meters down by the mystery illness that ultimately proved fatal.
More information on the frilled shark is available here and here.
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Cthulhu chandelier
Me waaaaaantssssss. Me wants baaaad.
Above, there is a blaze of glory
and beneath,
nothing but darkness,
and the gnashing of teeth.
Kewl.
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