Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet!
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today we’re talking about the Top 10 Times Nature
Made us Say Nope.
Nature can be beautiful, nature can be amazing, but sometimes nature can be both disgusting
and horrifying…join me as we look at some of the most stomach-churning things our beautiful
planet has to offer…although before we do, I just want to remind you guys to leave a
thumbs up on our video …. Okay, nature, what levels of Nope you got
for us!
10 - Pyura chilensis Take a look at this horrifying sea lump.
This is the Pyura Chilensis – a static sea creature that can be found along the coast
of Peru and Chile…
it is basically a living rock.
A really gross looking living rock!
It gets even grosser when you cut into it, too.
Ergh, so slimy!
It literally looks like a bleeding rock.
It's so….gooey.
Apparently, this meat-filled rock is some kind of filter system that sucks seawater
and filters out Microorganisms.
You thought a meaty rock was gross, wait till you get a load of this blood oozing fungus
at number 9 Yep……NOPE.
This here alien looking oozy mushroom of doom is officially called the Hydnellum Peckii.
Because of its stomach-turning appearance, the Hydnellum Pecki is often called the Bleeding
Tooth Fungus, or the Red-juice tooth.
Eww….mushroom blood juice.
You may be a bit confused by the references to teeth there ….not only does this devil
mushroom bleed, it has blooming gnashers!
While the topside of the fungus looks like it is oozing blood, the bottom side has tooth-like
spines.
Surprisingly, this grotesque looking nope of nature isn’t actually poisonous, I guess
it is just pretending to be.
8 - Mouldy Food Mould is natures way of decomposing food,
but boy does it look disgusting… and I guess that is the point, right?
Food goes bad and starts to mold, we see mold as a sign that we should not eat that food.
Molding food plates are a hard NOPE for me – look at these moldy strawberries….
Gross, right…. but now look at what nature does to dishes you don’t clean.
Ergh.
Want to mess with a mamma centipede?
I don’t think you do!
Here is why at number 7 So here is a horrifying image of a mother
centipede shielding her insect mass of babies……
how much would I need to pay you to poke this pile?
Hmm.
A cold hard nope from me, this is terrifying.
I am suddenly so very glad we are bigger than centipedes….
Imagine if we weren’t…. not even that, imagine if they were like….
A meter long….
ARGH!
Those pieces legs!
They will haunt me all day!
6 - Catfish Hi, Catfish are terrifying, Truly terrifying.
If you want a cold hard nope today, let me show you some footage and images of catfish
eating pigeons!
Firstly, a fish eating a bird is all kinds of absolutely messed up…secondly… look
how quickly this lurking fish managed to catch a pigeon.
Want to increase the Nope factor?
Sure!
Here is a picture of a catfish with several dead pigeons in its mouth.
Want some more nope?
Here be a giant catfish.
So, yeah, Catfish eating pigeons is truly horrifying and grotesque, but these sea nasties
don’t even need to eat anything to make me say nope louder and harder than ever before
– we have the Humpback Anglerfish at number 5
Sometimes nature is cute…sometimes it presents you with the humpback anglerfish…
Yeah….here he is….an actual monster.
I say he, but this is a lady – the female of the species is terrifying, the males little
rotters that climb on the back of females like a parasite fertilizing them forevermore.
The females are around 18 centimeters long, with the men just 2.9 centimeters.
Like dude….get off my back you tiny sperm demon.
So much nope about this monstrous fish.
4 - Frogspawn One of my hardest NOPES with nature is the
way frogs come into being.
Not only is Frogspawn an awful word for frog eggs…..spawn….spawn…it is also a horrifying
gelatinous lump.
When I was a kid I was terrified of Frogspawn…
To be honest, I still am.
Let's have a little look at some pictures.
Imagine this cold jelly clump running through your hands….ergh…
NOPE.
Nature can be beautiful, picture rolling hills and idyllic beaches… but it can also be
a literal nope inducing gateway to hell – like at number 3
Why on earth is this intrepid explorer standing on a lava pile formed around an entry into
an active lava pit?
That hole literally looks like a one-way ticket to Lucifer… while we’re here talking about
lava and volcanoes, they’re really really awesome….
But like……
NOPE.
Look at this volcano erupting at the end of a man's garden……
NOPE.
2 - Tree that Bleeds In my opinion, all tree sap is pretty gross….
It is so sticky and gooey and sleepy….
That in itself is enough of a nope for me.
However, in Africa, there is a tree that seeps what looks like blood… but it is actually
red sap.
The fact that it looks like blood is enough for me to give it a double nope.
Let’s have a few up close pictures of the Pterocarpus Angolensis tree…see if you can
hold down your lunch…
Lovely, right?!
Finally, at number one we have one of the more horrifying plants I have ever seen in
my life….
This is the Devils Finger Fungus The evolution of this beastie turns my stomach
from start to finish.
It starts off in some kind of protective shell sack, then bursts free, then gets reaaaall
bloody and tentacly and I just can’t really deal with it.
Why does any kind of plant fungus need to hatch?
I can just about handle hatching when it is a cute little baby bird or something, but
when it is a devilish octopus looking slime covered fungus that apparently smells….
Like….
Really it has to be nothing but a nope, right?
Right!
To make matters worse, once these creepsters have hatched, apparently they trap flies in
their sticky spores, then slowly eat their decomposing bodies.
Say it with me one more time.
NOPE!
So that was the Top 10 times nature made us say nope.
I am honestly pretty grossed out right now!
Which of these did you think was the most Nope worthy?
Let me know in the comments section down below.