Creepy As Hell: Caterpillar With A Skull On Its Head
This is Phylllodes Imperialis, the Imperial Fruit Sucking Moth, in its caterpillar form. It has a giant skull and eyeballs on its head to scare away predators. It worked on me and I'm not even a predator. There are some much better shots after the jump courtesy of planet.nerd's Flickr, which show one's skull-face from all angles. Because we need that. If I had to see it, so do you -- that's how this works.
Hit the jump for the coolest Halloween accessory since the plastic pirate cutlass.
Thanks to Vanessa, who told me I could go trick-or-treating with her. Cool, but only if we go to the rich neighborhoods where they hand out full-size candy bars.
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Peekaboo! Because nobody should ever sleep again, a woman in China recently had a spider removed from her ear that had snuck in there while she was napping and took up residence for five days. No clue what it was eating, but my guess is wax. Or lice. Fortunately for the w... / Continue →
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Because Mother Nature is completely out of her f***ing mind, decapitated rattlesnakes can still strike and cripple/kill their enemies up to an hour after being decapitated. They can't fly though, so now would be a good time to start saving for that jetpack. Rattlesnake venom ... / Continue →
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This is a video of Boston Dynamic's PETMAN humanoid robot testing out its maneuverability in camouflage. It's, uh, it's terrifyingly human-like. Just imagine in the future there will be groups of these things patrolling the city with glowing red eyes and if they catch you out... / Continue →
