The Science And Nature Thread - All Welcome

[Nucks]

Interesting things found inside giant snakes:

[banana chewits]

Interesting things found inside giant snakes:

gross.

[Keyser]

You have to admit Keyser that a 7 metre/23 feet reticulated python is impressive by anybody's standards. I of course am sorry it ate a poor woman but let's face human beings are the most disgusting and destructive creature of all. In comparison to how many humans snakes have killed, how many snakes have humans killed?

Alright mate!

Snakes are such wonderful/beautiful animals - as far as size goes there is an awful lot of bullshit with regard to the giant snakes (although the above animal is not the maximum).

When I have a bit more time I may go into this in far more detail - and that's a nice link as well Nucks.

African Rock python devours adult Hyena.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... yena-kill/

More gluttony!

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... s-animals/

[Keyser]

Cambrian oddballs, Architeuthis, the amazing vision of the Zebrafish and the coronation of The King.

https://www.livescience.com/27506-cambr ... n-era.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithson ... 180969422/

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-zebrafish ... oogle.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science- ... 180969419/

[Guest]

I think snakes are cool

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.army ... looded_too

[Ray of Sunshine]

those are really beautiful.

Lindisfarne isn't at the moment, got a big white sheet over the castle like Grenfell Tower.

[banana chewits]

those are really beautiful.

Lindisfarne isn't at the moment, got a big white sheet over the castle like Grenfell Tower.

why is that, ray?

[Keyser]

Just wanted to clear up the maximum size of living 'giant' serpents.

I would make a small bet that the Reticulated python and Green Anaconda reach around 8 metres - anything above that is sheer fantasy (although the Anaconda would be the heaviest snake).

Of the other huge species (Rock, Scrub, Burmese, Indian) 7 metres would be the absolute limit.

Despite what bullshit you may read on the internet.

[Keyser]

Four of my favourite and most evocative names from the natural world.

The Destroying Angel (Amanita).
The Vampire squid from Hell (Vampyroteuthis infernalis).
The Bone Eating Snot Worm (Osedax).
The Devil's coach-horse (Ocypus olens).

[Guest]

Four of my favourite and most evocative names from the natural world.

The Destroying Angel (Amanita).
The Vampire squid from Hell (Vampyroteuthis infernalis).
The Bone Eating Snot Worm (Osedax).
The Devil's coach-horse (Ocypus olens).

The 5-toed sloth keysurus minoris.

[Keyser]

Four of my favourite and most evocative names from the natural world.

The Destroying Angel (Amanita).
The Vampire squid from Hell (Vampyroteuthis infernalis).
The Bone Eating Snot Worm (Osedax).
The Devil's coach-horse (Ocypus olens).

The 5-toed sloth keysurus minoris.

[Keyser]

A few nice photos of the Spectral/False Vampire (Vampyrum spectrum)- at up to a metre across the largest carnivorous species of bat in the world and just look at those teeth!

[MG2]

It looks like Ben Stiller in the bottom pic

[Keyser]

It looks like Ben Stiller in the bottom pic

It does!

[HobbitFeet]

a good ear clean wouldn't go amiss either