I thought this squid egg mass was really interesting.
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Chaetopterus pugaporcinus is a species of worm, about the size of a hazelnut, whose name roughly translates to “resembling a pig’s rear” due to it’s strange shape, because of this they are more commonly known as the pigbutt worm/flying buttocks. It us unknown if the specimens found are adult or larva, although they are believed to be adults.
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That is the best name ever
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Sometimes, Mites replace the foot of Army Ants. I find it interesting, the ant seems to not care and the Mite gets a free lift.
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Carnivorous caterpillars, of both the families Miletinae and some of Eupithecia.
Miletinae are a parasitic species who camouflage themselves as ant’s aphid herds, consuming the livestock themselves and occasionally the ant’s pupa and larva. Each species one tends to specialize to a specific ant/aphid pairing. They can be found on quite a few continents, and are just kinda awesome in general (the adults are known to have semi-predatory behaviors as well). They are however, only specialized to soft body targets.
Of the Eupithecia species on the Hawaiian Islands, only two (If I remember correctly) are herbivorous like the rest of the family. Instead, the others are insectivorous, and have taken the strong jaws that would normally chew apart leaves to cutting holes in insect chitin. It’s actually cool how they do it-ambush predators that when brushed against by something smaller latch on and nom.
Cool little buggers, aren’t they?
Edit - image link broke
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Hello and again welcome to the Aperture science computerized enrichment activities…
Not this.
Hello again, i returned after months of non writing posts here.
Most time now i learn appearing of life on Earth and i enjoy this story.
With this i learned about the bacterium who are ecosystem for themselves.
Found in deep water (3 km), thermophilic and alkaliphilic in one, they use energy of radioactive decay in their reactions to get organics. Alone bacteria, who get everything: Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus by itself thanks to radioactive decay.
Moreover this bacteria was isolated from any other life for millions of years.
Moreover, we can learn LUCA’s possibilities thanks to it - LUCA, as supposed, lived in similar environment. With this are some another similarities with Desulforudius.
Hope you enjoy
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Reading the wiki page it seems that it doesn’t use radioactivity as a food source directly. Rather it consumes the hydrocarbons that are the results of radioactive decay. So it needs a radioactive environment to survive but it doesn’t get energy directly by getting hit by radiation.
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You are right. Using energy of radioactive decay, as i know, possible only for some lishen, but they simply use photosynthetic systems with catcher of photons in needed diapason (melanin if i remember right).
But this organism as you told uses products of reactions happening after radioactive decay.
Actually, it is one of some alive systems which don’t need sunlight to live. Second known for me - ecosystems around black (and possibly white) smokers and some another chemoautotrophic organisms. But this organism is really unique, isn’t it?
just like… tell me about an awesome species. tell me why it is so cool
(if it’s not exactly a species that’s fine. i just want to hear rambles on awesome lifeforms)
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the hydra genus
it can be blended up and reform itself exactly as it was.
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Slime Molds
This video explains them better than I ever could:
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I’m sorry if this is a common answer, but I think that Cuttlefish (species part of the order Sepiida) are really cool organisms! Their control over their physical apperance (even being able to change the texture of their skin, not just their colour) is incredible. They use their abilities in really interesting ways too! Not only are they able to disguise themselves as an object on the sea floor, but they also rapidly flash their skin to confuse their prey! Cuttlefish are absolutely one of my favourite types of animal.
(here’s a video showcasing how the cuttlefish hunt! thank you for reading my post.)
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Leucochloridium.It is a kind of zombie parasites.
They can parasitize on the snail’s eye stalk and squirming there,making it look like a caterpillar to attract brids to eat it. 
Not only that, It can invade the snail’s nerves and control their minds,just like the zombie virus controls humans.It makes the snail into the open area, so that hungry birds can gouge out its eyes.After being eaten, they breed in the bird’s intestines, and the eggs are excreted with the bird’s feces, which eventually eaten by another snail, completing this bizarre life cycle.How exactly it accomplished this feat is an unsolved mystery.
Of course, it can only control the snail’s nervous system, so don’t worry about zombie crisis.
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This is #science so, no, you are not allowed to talk about non-real species.
Edit: the post I replied to was deleted.
I am VERY sure that there was a thread exactly like this
But i forgot its name
And i just found it, moving posts there in progress…
Done
And a thread gets revived!
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Hello! I’m just posting here to say that I tweaked this topic’s title slightly to say “species” instead of “creatures” to be more accurate to some of the posts here, and I changed this topic’s category from “Not Thrive” to “Science!”. If this change needs to be undone, that’s perfectly fine. I hope everyone reading this is having a nice day!
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It seems people had been posting about real creatures here even though this thread was in #not-thrive originally.
I guess we’ll see next if people want to talk about fictional creatures as well, which will need a separate thread…
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Foods don’t contain hydrogen gas. They have glucose, which when oxidised release co2 and water
If I was looking for a spider it would lure me too
There is also a transparent version of every creature
Why is it a better antimicrobial?
Do you have another link?
How does that work? They aren’t bright enough to blind the crabs. Why won’t the crabs just learn to stay away from the shiny lights?