7 Scariest animals of your nightmares
If you're creepy crawly phobias increase with the number of legs they have as
well as the size then now is the time to probably gonna make a cup of tea or
coffee and come back later this is the Scolopendra gigantea also known as the
Amazon giant centipede these unnaturally large arthropods have 46 yellow legs and
can grow up to around 35 centimeters in length has about the same length was a
man's forearm they have a venomous bite which were used to kill their prey which
can be used the anything up to the size of a mouse, bat, small snakes and birds
whilst the bite is not fatal to a fit healthy human it can cause severe pain swelling
chills fever and weakness. Now if you're wondering how they catch bats well
that's quite clever really they go up in to the Bats cave and then may hang upside
down from the roof holding on with just a few pairs of legs then they catch the
bats as they fly past. These are now very popular amongst collectors of exotic
pets but just be aware they are known to be very aggressive and also nervous. I
think I'll pass on that one and I'll stick with a budgie.
Goblin Shark - This could well be Dobby the house elf's long lost aquatic cousin but it's in fact the
goblin shark and the name is really rather apt with its huge nose appendage and
protruding teeth making it look even weirder but that's not the only strange
thing about the sharks. They live in very deep waters normally in tropical areas
close to the ocean floor and often called living fossils because they've
been around for more than a 125 million years. Because they
live in the deep oceans between 40 and 1200 metres where there is almost no
light they are sometimes called The Vampire shark. Thier eyes are small and their
skin is almost translucent with the pinkish coloring coming from the
oxygenated blood within their capiliaries. They are normally up to
about four metres in length but it's believed they can grow larger. The large
flattened nose is covered in sensors which can pick up extremely small
electric field produced by it's pray which can be fish, squid, stingrays and crabs
either on the sea floor or in a free water however it's real party piece are
its jaws it catches its prey by rapidly extending its entire mouth outwards. The
flexible jaws are not part of the skull and although some other sharks can push a
joint out a bit this looks more like a even extending mouth.
Golden Orb Spider - The fear of spiders seems to be inversely related to their size, little
money spiders are quite cute, bigger house spiders are getting a bit scary but when
you get into one's like the Golden Orb Weavers it's enough to keep most
arachnophobes a heart attack. These are also known as giant spiders or banana
spiders they are normally found in to warmer climates around the world and are
the oldest surviving spider species with fossil specimens dating back some
165 million years. They grow big enough to capture small
birds in their webs and even half metre long snakes have been photographed being
captured and eaten. They get their name from the color of a silk which shines
like gold in the Sun. The yellow helps camouflage the web in the shade and in the Sun the
bright yellow shiny strands attract bees. The spider itself can also adjust it's
pigment intensity relative to the background light levels and also the
color to help hide from the
insects vision. Luckily these spiders are relatively non-toxic to humans with a
bite causing moderate pain and swelling for about a day.
Though the sight of the biggest ones at around 13cm or 5 inches across is enough to scare most people away.
Which is ironic because they grow to their largest size in urban environments
probably because of a lack of predators and parasites and the more abundant food
supply due to artificial lighting.
HagFish - Sometimes it seems as though nature is trying to make the most ugly and
disgusting creatures just a creep you out.
Take the hag fish for example the mouth head alone look like the work of an over
imaginative horror film special effects department. These are the only creatures
to have a skull but no backbone or jaws. They have skin rather than scales and they are
ancient. The only known fossil hag fish which is 330 million
years old
looks very similar to a modern day hag fish. But it's real scare factor is its
ability to make slime are not just a little bit you get by handling a eel
for example the hag fish can make as much as 20 litres of slime in a minute and if
that doesn't get them out of a sticky situation, to excuse the pun, they can wrap themselves into
knots and scrape off the slime to make an escape. Hag fish are bottom feeders and
their main diet is Polychaeta worms they also feed on the dead bodies of fish and other
animals with sink down to the seabed where they like to burrow into the
bodies and eat them from the inside out
bursting out like a certain Alien in the SciFi films.
Tailless Whip Spider - If you crossed the ugliest spider with an equally ugly scorpion then the mutant
offspring would probably look like an Amblypygi or the whip spider also known as the
tailless whip scorpions. These twisted creatures appear to be made out of the
most unsettling portions of spiders, praying mantis, crabs and daddy
long legs and is a uniquely scary looking product of nature. Their
flattened bodies and legs range in size from around 5cm up to a
screaming inducing 25cm across. They are found in the warmer parts of
the world and I'm mostly nocturnal living in tropical forests in tight dark
spaces under logs and rocks and also in dark caves where they are sometimes
known cover the walls. Whilst these are close relatives of spiders they are
neither spiders nor scorpions and although they have 8 legs only 6
are used for walking like crab and the other two are sensory organs which are
normally held out in front
to find its pray which are things like crickets, Beetles, caterpillar's
and small insects. These little critters much look like with deadliest spawn of
Satan but they are in fact harmless, well to humans anyway. They are non venomous but
the claws can give you an nip like a crab. It has 8 eyes but have poor vision and have to
rely upon this sensory whips to find their way around. These are also kept as
exotic pets as well I think you need quite a strong constitution to have
these things in the house.
Sea Pig (Cthulhu Larva) - With no eyes or face the abyssal sea cucumber or Cthulhu Larva AKA Sea Pig lives in depth of up to
19,000 feet on the sea floor of a deep oceans these sea cucumbers are related
to starfish squatty little to tube legs, which they can inflate, they also have a giant mouth which they
use to Hoover up the detritus falls from the surface. They graze the ocean floor
in groups of up to several hundred or thousand at a time are often caught in the nets
of deep sea trawlers. They're not poisonous and have no big scary teeth
claws, so they pretty much harmless but they do look as if you weird as heck.
Aye Aye - If you were wondering where the makers of gremlins got their creature ideas from then you
need look no further than the Aye Aye.
Unlike the other cute members of the lemur family, the Aye Aye looks like it hit
every branch is it fell out of the ugly tree. It has the wide staring eyes, weird extra large ears,
and especially elongated middle finger which they use to extract
grubs from trunks and branches of trees and they're also not afraid of humans.
Researchers in Madagascar reported accounts that tell of individual Aye Aye's
strolling nonchalantly through the village streets and even walking right up to naturalists
in the rain forest and sniffing their shoes. However in their native madagascar
they are seen as a harbinger of evil and often killed on sight. It's believed that
the appearance of an Aye Aye
predicts the death of a villager and the only way to prevent this is to kill the
Aye Aye and hang her body up to ward off evil spirits. Good for villagers but not
so for the Aye Aye's
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