June 17th, 2010 by Sydney

This little cat was born last week in Charleston, Virginia… with two faces!!  Vets say that the cats mouths moved independently of each other and that each have their own esophagus, which they speculate lead to one stomach inside the kitten’s body.

Do I see a Fluffy in our future?

(Via boingboing, Fortean Times)

June 16th, 2010 by Sydney

This little guy, some sort of winged lizard apparently, was found in Indonesia and basically I want one real hard. I’d keep toootally him in my pocket : )

(Via GEARFUSE. Thanks, Kristy for the link suggestion!)

January 30th, 2010 by Amanda

Pink Chickens and now this?! Farmer Andrew Jack from Scotland started painting his sheep in bright colors to “spice things up” so people could smile on their way to and from work. That is so cute!!

“They are sprayed with animal-friendly paint, something they don’t mind at all, and they will remain colorful until sheared. It all started when the farmer wanted to paint them blue to mark St Andrew’s Day, but now that it has become an attraction in itself, the thought of using other colors as pink has crossed the farmers mind. Sheep has been used as ideas to several other things, like these sheep sculptures made out of rotary telephones.”

Thanks This Blog Rules!!

January 21st, 2010 by Sydney

This is the second test shoot I’ve done for a video that I’m working on.  This piece is my way of dealing with a childhood fantasy, the desire to be/become a robot/cyborg, and the anxiety one feels as they come to realize that their fantasies can never be real.  In the video, I’m literally breaking-down/peeling away/deconstructing the fantasy in a way that’s physically painful/stressful to mirror the emotional pain and stress.

As you can see, the video cuts off.  Camera problems, lighting problems, and some other problems mean I have to do it again.  I guess that’s why they say the third time is a charm… They say that right? Please, God, tell me that’s what they say.  This shit hurts!

January 2nd, 2010 by Amanda

I wouldn’t have believed this was real had my friend not taken the picture herself.
In Bali, apparently there are rare pink chickens, supposedly they are not dyed, although some people say they are dyed as babies, either way they are really cute. I like to believe that they are real.

Here are some other pink chickens that I found via the internet.

October 9th, 2009 by Amanda

I do love the weird animals, and thanks to Webecoist there are 15 even crazier ones to blog about. These are my favorites. You can view them all here.

Giant Isopod:

Cloverfield anyone? “If you’re afraid of bugs, you’re really not going to like the Giant Isopod. It resembles nothing so much as a cockroach the size of a guinea pig, but it’s actually a crustacean related to shrimp and crabs. These scavengers roam the cold, dark sea floor from 560ft to 7,000ft below the surface of the ocean, eating mostly dead whales, fish, and squid.” DEAD WHALES?!

Yeti Crab:

I’m sure our friends at Ilovetheyeti would like this. “With its long, furry appendages, the newly-discovered Yeti Crab looks like some kind of sea sloth. It was discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean during a deep-sea diving expedition in 2006 and is so unusual that a new taxonomic family had to be invented for it. The Yeti Crab is blind and white, with fur that supports colonies of bacteria. It lives near hydrothermal vents 7,540 feet under the surface.”

Horror Frog:

It may not look that creepy, but looks can be misleading. This little guy has the ability to break its bones so that they puncture its toe pads, producing extendable claws on demand when threatened. It was only discovered in 2008.

Dumbo Octopus:

It’s kinda cute. “Strange as the Dumbo Octopus may be, some people actually think it’s pretty cute” Hey that’s what I said!! “‘Dumbo’ can be found in the dark depths of any ocean on Earth and grows up to 20cm in length. It swallows its prey, made up of mostly worms and crustaceans, whole.”

September 23rd, 2009 by Amanda

HOLY SHIT!! Okay so, some of you may remember this thing from a previous post.
If not please click here…

…Okay now that we’re all caught up, I was reading Strawberry Anarchy today and came across this.

“Hey readers, you may have heard of this before but I thought I would blog about it as I wanted to have a discussion about it! This strange creature has been found and nobody can really explain what it is! Apparently some kids were playing beside the water and this thing came crawling out of the water/cave they thought it was going to attack them so they threw stones at it and killed it, they threw it into the water then it was washed up a few days later! In the video you can see the carcass of this animal too! And you will see this was most definitely found and not a hoax! I have included a photo of a sloth as many think this is just a bald sloth. Either way a bald sloth has never been spotted before now so this is still pretty strange also the fact it came out of the water does not make sense either.”

So, I don’t know about you all, but the first thing that popped into my head was the Montauk Monster (please see picture at top of page). What the hell man?! Why would those kids kill it?! It needs to be studied! So here’s the million dollar question, just a simple cute sloth? Or creepy mysterious monster?

September 3rd, 2009 by Sydney

So basically, this makes me really uncomfortable…

It’s called The Vamp and can be bought here if, for whatever reason, you’re interested.  Not only does it sparkle like Edward, but you can stick it in the refrigerator and it will stay cold… like Edward…  apparently… I guess.  I dunno, man.  I don’t want to think about this.  Why the fuck would anyone want to put this in the refrigerator and then put it inside them? I don’t care how much you like vampires (*cough AMANDA cough*).

But yeeeeeeeeeah… does anyone remember that time in Twilight when Edward uh… explodes a little bit the first time he sees (or smells or whatever) Bella?! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Thank you io9 for making me, like Edward, explode a little, but out of my mouth… with vomit.

July 19th, 2009 by Sydney

That’s right! And just in time for that giant squidless Watchmen director’s cut screening at Comic-Con! Underwire reports:
“…Hordes of fearsome, violent Humboldt Squid have invaded shallow waters off the coast of Comic-Con International’s host city San Diego, assaulting divers and anyone else that gets in their way…

The predatory squid — which grow up to 7 feet long, have razor-sharp beaks and tentacles spiked with teeth — have been migrating northward at an alarming rate, as temperatures warm and their food stores thin out…

Comic-Con attendees might want to think about if they plan a dive near the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.”

Hey, on the bright side, at least this thing isn’t what’s attacking the shores of San Diego, though I’m sure there are a few fanboys out there that probably wish that it was.

July 17th, 2009 by Senna

So I guess I am a sucker for anime plushies…yesterday I bought a somewhat rare character plush of Maromi from Paranoia Agent.  It’s a cute little pink dog-creature that ends up being rather evil.  Without giving away the plot of the series, it’s creepy.  And now it just stares at me.  I’m not sure how to feel about Maromi, but I better stay on his good side.

July 17th, 2009 by Senna

High end Italian designer Antonio Berardi has created a monster!  Heel-less heels and boots!  I do have to say, however, if they were not so incredibly expensive, they would serve as a great base for my dranei hoof shoes I am still yet to make.  Most would think these strange futuristic-looking footwear would be difficult to walk in and an easy sprained ankle or even a broken neck.  Quite the contrary, Berardi has mastered the balance and distribution of weight on the solitary platform, the same method I will be using when creating platform hooves.  Although I’m sure his creations will stand to be more luxiourious than mine! -_-

Check out Antonio Berardi’s other mythical fashions here.

July 17th, 2009 by Senna

Los Angeles based designer Brian Lichtenberg’s latest fall line debuted on March 22, 2009 at the COLA fashion show in Downtown, Los Angeles.  Think yeti-faun-warrior princess meets a 22nd century nightclub.  Hard to imagine?  Well see for yourself!

I need a pair of those furry hoof-heels for my WoW dranei cosplay!  Also, check out this video of the runway show for more styles.  And visit Brian Lichtenberg’s website if you like his work.

July 16th, 2009 by Amanda

Who-Sucks.com says:

“The sea contains untold numbers of strange and bizarre creatures. It is said that we know more about our own solar system than we know about our oceans.

Indeed, some creatures of the sea can seem more alien than anything you can imagine.

But even worse, some of them can seem more frightening than your worst nightmare.

Below we have collected pictures of 24 CREATURES FROM THE DEEP!”

I personally have a fear of the ocean, especially anything that lives in it. Some of these are really cool but some I seriously cannot handle. How can we sleep at night knowing half of these are out there?! I can say one thing for sure though, these definitely do not suck.

Here are my favorites.

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July 13th, 2009 by Amanda

I stumbled upon this very interesting article today. It’s from last year which makes me wonder, why am I only finding out about it now?! Seriously though, WTF IS THIS THING?! Some people say raccoon, others say a “flightless griffin”, Sydney on the other hand thinks it’s “definitely a bird, chicken…chihuahua”, personally, I don’t think it’s any of those things.

From New York Magazine:

“Yesterday, Gawker ran what appeared to be a photo of a bloated, leathery animal corpse — only it was like no animal anyone had seen before. A stout, hairless creature with a beak, claws, and the almond-shaped eyes familiar from renderings of space aliens, it looked, in short, like a monster. Hence the headline: “Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk.”

A number of eyewitnesses say they saw the monster with their own eyes. “I saw the monster,” says Michael Meehan, a 22-year-old waiter at the Surfside Inn, which sits above the beach where the monster washed up. “I just came walking down the beach and everyone was looking at it. No one knew what it was. It kind of looked like a dog, but it had this crazy-looking beak. I mean, I would freak out if something like that popped up next to me in the water.”

“This woman kept calling animal control, she wanted to name it after herself. I think they came and got it. The carcass. Whatever it was.”

But did they? The East Hampton branch of animal control referred Daily Intel to a supervisor who did not return calls for comment. And Navitski, of Evolutionary Media Group, says her friend’s sister says animal control never came. “They say an old guy came and carted it away,” she said. “He said, ‘I’m going to mount it on my wall.’ ”

This did come out over a year ago, so I’m going to do some investigating and see if they ever did find out what it was.

The can read the original article here.

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And now for a little comic relief…

This was Christwire‘s version of the Montauk Monster:

“It’s an ABOMINATION to natural order that some geneticists created and frankly I’d like to know what else those Dr. Frankenstein’s are creating in their secret island labs. You’ve all seen Jurassic Park with the imaginary dinosaurs and you know that geneticists have been working on actual cloning some time now.

My scientific opinion is that this critter demon looks like the cross of a demon and a wild hog, with some bird of some sort in it, probably ostrich.”

View this and other hilarious article’s about “things that will kill you dead” here!

July 12th, 2009 by Amanda

The title of this article on Yahoo! News caught my eye:

“The giant Palouse earthworm has taken on mythic qualities in this vast agricultural region that stretches from eastern Washington into the Idaho panhandle — its very name evoking the fictional sandworms from “Dune” or those vicious creatures from the movie “Tremors.”

The worm is said to secrete a lily-like smell when handled, spit at predators, and live in burrows 15 feet deep. There have been only a handful of sightings.

But scientists hope to change that this summer with researchers scouring the Palouse region in hopes of finding more of the giant earthworms. Conservationists also want the Obama administration to protect the worm as an endangered species, even though little research has been done on it.”

Read the rest of the article here.