The monster proceeded, ever so carefully, to crawl out of its carefully-constructed and benighted burrow.
Its many-clawed hands, one claw to a finger, stretched forward and pullled the black dirt back toward its fur-covered body.
As this happened, its many-tendriled snout probed further into the darkness that was soon to become light.
As it did so, it encountered a bit of its standard food-prey and sucked it up in an instant–quicker than the humsn eye could follow!
Fully twenty-two tentacles reached forward from its nose, forming a hideous moustache that could only be possessed by a blind, elder-horror envisioned first by the kind of mind possessed by a demented, soul-shattered, day-gaunt such as the Master of weird horror, H. P. Lovecraft himself!
Even the name of the horrible abnormality itself conveyed the nature of its blasphemous, crawling chaos:
It was the Star-Nosed Mole!
Tremble, worlds of sanity! Tremble! For here is its deadly, maddening visage!
THIS IS NOT A DREAM!!!
THIS IS NOT A HOAX!!!
THIS IS THE TRUE FACE OF ELDER-COSMIC MADNESS STARING YOU IN THE FACE!!!
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE STAR-NOSED MOLE!!!
That is seriously ugly! Ugleeeeee!!! The photo is credited to one Kenneth Catania, who elsewhere discusses the possible evolution of this critter at http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/0600_feature2.html
I had to giggle when he says in this article that “This awkward process makes sense only when we appreciate that flatfish were not designed carefully and then created”
Not designed? Oh please. Puulleeezze… How can anyone in their right mind see nature and fail to see God?
GAH! How on earth could you do something like that to us?!
A warning, a note of some kind for those of us that are squeamish. Heck! I woulda taken anything!
I about jumped outta my shoes when I saw that thing!
/cringes
Now I gotta go outside and shake of the willies I got just lookin’ at that thing!!
The H.P. Lovecraft buildup wasn’t enough?
Sure, they’re ugly… but have you seen what they eat? I’d make a face, too.
Sure its not a Sea-anenome grafted onto its snout?.
Yikes: That Which Must Not Be Spoken Of, indeed.
Shuggoth! Shuggoth!
Are disgustingly ugly creatures like this (and cockaroaches) part of God’s original creation, or a result of the fall?
My old theology teacher used to joke that death, mosquitoes, and cats (he hated cats) were among the fruits of the fall.
Me, I suspect they just prove that God has more eclectic tastes than we do.
Except possibly Mosquitoes.
Hey! He’s in bloom!
Really, it’s rather . . . fetching.
Folks, you think this thing’s ugly, you gotta see a naked mole rat. Now there’s ugly! Not at all like that cule li’l guy on Kim Possible who eats too much Bueno Nacho. Sheesh, talk about artistic license! Sheesh.
How did I miss this yesterday?
this thing reminds me of the great nature spirit in princess mononoke. not sure if i worded that right specifically, but if you’ve seen the movie, you know what i’m talking about.. just give that thing a deer nose and body.