Here be monsters

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Animal Planet has their Monster Weekend, and I have mine.

1.
Mekong giant catfish (with Zeb Hogan)
Source

2.
Lancetfish caught in Hawaii
Full story, with more pics

Lancetfish washed up on North Carolina beach

3.
Oleander hawk moth caterpillar
Photo by John Horstman

4.
Asian giant hornet
Photo by netman at Flickr
Hornets from HELL

5.
Frogsicle

6.
Skull of slow-worm (legless lizard)
Photo by Steve Langham

7.
Atlantic wolf-fish

8.
Narrow-bridged musk turtle
Photo by James Harding
Source

9.
RAWR!

10.
Wrinkle-faced bat
Photo by Rolf Maller
Bat’s Wrinkly Face Improves Sonar

11. Komodo dragons

Komodo dragon, Komodo National Park, Indonesia
Photo by Michael Poliza


Lower photo by Brian Matthews

12.
Gentoo penguin, Antarctica
Photo by Tim Fisher

13.
King penguin, South Georgia Island
Source

14.
If it fits, I – oh, dammit.

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17.
Naked mole-rat
Photo by Heidi & Hans-Jürgen Koch

18.
Tasmanian devil
Photo by Sam Rosewarne

Video is thirty-nine seconds

19. SPIDER RAIN




Photos by Lukas Koch, from story two years ago

And, this year…

Video is two minutes, eleven seconds

Also posted to randompictures, with a selection also to splodefromcute