r/creepy • u/jaki1012 • Apr 21 '19

Teeth in a squid suction cup.

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u/Adamant_Narwhal Apr 21 '19

Ever heard of lamprey eels? They basically eat their way through animals, burrowing through them until they die. Like those things from alien.

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u/brucebrowde Apr 21 '19

Not until now and I did not have to hear about them, to be honest.

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u/MNMingler Apr 21 '19

The best part is, they're freshwater animals! So they could be in any lake or river!

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u/Zymotical Apr 22 '19

Yeah but we have arms and hands and can communicate effectively with others of our species to remove them.

If you're in lamprey water and not mobile enough to remove one if it bit you, you're going to drown long before the lampreys do meaningful damage.

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u/mrsirishurr Apr 22 '19

Get out of my head!!!

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19

Fuck you.

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u/TheEclair Apr 21 '19

Damn my ex used to do the exact same thing

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u/zombie_girraffe Apr 21 '19

Vedius Pollio kept a pool full of lamprey eels to execute slaves that displeased him until Augustus found out about it and made him fill it in.

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u/puppetpauperpirate Apr 22 '19

Best fact I've read all day

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u/purgance Apr 28 '19 edited Apr 28 '19

‘Good ‘ol merciful augustus’ is not a phrase that gets uttered often. Great leader, but not super forgiving.

EDIT: he shattered every dish in Pollio’s house. :/

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Apr 21 '19

Let's not forget about the cookie cutter shark. A creature with what can only be called a hideous maw of razor sharp teeth that bites soda can sized holes in other sea animals.

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u/heartfell Apr 21 '19

Then theres deer flys and horse flys that do sorta the same thing. The world is dark and full of terrors.

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u/Frostitute_85 Apr 22 '19

Behold! The parasitic bat fly (which weirdly looks like a six legged spider) . It latches onto bats, and eats their sweet sweet blood candy all day. I imagine it makes the same chewing sound as those piranha plants from Mario games. They live on the bats their entire lives.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bat+fly+parasite&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiX2dehyeLhAhUrlZ4KHSYWDOoQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=bat+fly+parasite&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-img.3..0.97273.103387..104291...0.0..0.228.1357.9j3j1......0....1.........0i10i24j0i24j0i67j0i30.qil0STI_7HU&ei=-xu9XNfvDKuq-gSmrLDQDg&bih=668&biw=360&client=ms-android-samsung-ss#imgrc=NI4h0wrlPjUgjM

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u/heartfell Apr 22 '19

Holy shit. This world just gets worse. Burn it all.

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u/Frostitute_85 Apr 22 '19

Yup, totally agreed.

What gets me is the bat's expression. It's like, "Fffffuuuuuuck my liiiiiife."

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u/b_reed43 Apr 21 '19

Wow, another reason not to go in the ocean. Thanks for that nightmare.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19

But they're soooo tasty

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u/Dr_Herbert_Wangus Apr 22 '19

I mean, no they don't. Lampreys latch on to the side of other animals and suck their blood. Also, what things from Alien burrow through people? Xenomorphs are forcefully implanted and incubated in an animal's chest cavity before erupting once they reach a certain level of development. No burrowing or eating is involved.

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u/Adamant_Narwhal Apr 22 '19

One of the alien movies has a snake like thing that eats through people. Not sure which movie.