pink – The Artful Amoeba http://theartfulamoeba.com A blog about the weird wonderfulness of life on Earth Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:22:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.31 What You See When You Drink Too Much in Thailand http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/05/20/what-you-see-when-you-drink-too-much-in-thailand/ http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/05/20/what-you-see-when-you-drink-too-much-in-thailand/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 04:10:25 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=305 This is what you see when you drink too much in Thailand.

I love the smell of cyanide in the morning. Smells like . . . Desmoxytes.

Because nothing says, “Don’t Eat Me!” quite like a neon pink millipede (unless you’re two, in which case it says, “All You Can Eat Candy Buffet!”), I give you: The Pink Cyanide Millipede.

In addition to its easily pronounceable Thai (Mangkorn chomphoo) and Latin (Desmoxytes purpurosea) names, it features a pleasing almond aroma (courtesy of the cyanide it’s oozing).  Pink millipede saté sticks, anyone?

To see more bizarre animals either discovered or more fully investigated in the last few years (including our old friend the barreleye fish and the can’t-miss flesh-eating ghost slug), check out this gallery of bizarre animals over at New Scientist. You’ll be glad you did!

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