Tag Archive | "crocodile"
Albino Alligators
They are cream while others are cocoa; they are chalk while others are (exceptionally dark) cheese- these reptilian oddities are the albinos of the cold-blooded world. But does their condition cause them to perform differently in the great Darwinian game of life-and-death?
Continue reading...Look Into My Eyes…
Thursday, June 25, 2009
They say the eyes are the window to the soul, but the ones collected here make you ponder whether they lead straight to the stomach. Still, staring back at you, they also show that bloodthirsty can be beautiful – like this shot of a crocodile’s eye close up. Check out the detail in the croc's iris. It's like gazing at a landscape from above, with the pupil an opening into an abyss.
Continue reading...Don’t Even Think About It…
Friday, June 12, 2009
Following last month's popular Death is Milliseconds Away post, this time we've decided to turn the tables on the beastly bullies who reckon they're in for an easy snack. Here we bring you some equally special snapshots in which would-be victims have decided to take a stand in a bid for survival – giving their foes something to go away and think about or at least making them work for their meal.
Continue reading...Death is Milliseconds Away…
Monday, May 11, 2009
This photo makes you want to shout, "He's behind you!", because you know that there cute little robin is as good as a goner. Yet we are often most keen to watch animals in their natural setting when they are busy gobbling one another up. The photos collected here add something else to the whole guzzling theme, capturing creatures enjoying their lasts moments in this world before the jaws of death close on them forever.
Continue reading...Man Walks Out of Aquarium With Crocodile; Nobody Cares
Monday, March 31, 2008
Occasionally, a criminal act so audacious will take take place that I think the criminal should simply be let off without punishment; train robberies, hits on Las Vegas casinos– and now the theft of a crocodile from the Bergen Aquarium in Oslo. Image from lunarsea71 on Flickr
Continue reading...Two Headed Reptile Zoo
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
‘We couldn’t force-feed it, because we don’t know which head eats.’ Meet the snake, crocodile and tortoise that are not only connected by their cold blood. These animals all have polycephaly: the condition of having two heads. These ‘conjoined twins’ although different are locked within the same operating body [...]
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Monday, August 31, 2009
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