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More African Giant Snails!

We have written about the Giant African Snail before, well Planet Oddity had another post on them and we couldn’t resists; these things are so creepy-huge they almost seem cute.

Yes they are slimy and yes probably look a little creepy, but they are so slow moving, non-poisonous and generally uneventful that how could you not [...]

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Storm “Agatha” Causes Unbelievably Big Sinkhole in Guatemala

This is unbelievable, but a sinkhole that looks literally like a hole dug to hell has opened up in the middle of a Guatemalan city, eating a 3-story building when it formed:
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The Guatemalan Government’s Flickr account may have updated pictures over time as this is where the picture originated from. BoingBoing has the [...]

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Antarctica is HUGE – Bigger Than the US

Saw this on TwitPic, it’s the United States superimposed on top of the land-mass that is Antarctica and holy-hell, I honestly didn’t realize it was so big.

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Giant Australian Spider Caught on Camera Eating Bird

Giant Australian Spider Caught on Camera Eating Bird

Laurence Hartje just sent this one in and I don’t even know what to say to it besides a series of loud shrieks and then wondering how in the holy mother of god the spider’s body got that big.
These pictures were taken in Atheron, which is in Australia; which consequently is a place I will [...]

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Giant African Land Snail

About.com has a little gallery of Scary Exotic Pet Pictures, and while I didn’t really find most of them too scary… this one was a shocker.
This giant shelled bringer of disease and doom is a Giant African Land Snail, and it would probably kill you for no other reason than it was bored, and you [...]

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Insanely Huge Crabs Scare Me

Brian Fernandes just sent this in, and it sent shivers up my spine… apparently “Coconut Crabs” or “Robber Crabs” are of the crab breed “Fuckus Hugeous”.
The coconut crab is able to crack coconuts with it’s claws and eat the inside.

Knowing that these things are insanely huge AND have pincers that could crack your skull open, [...]

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