Awesome Creatures

You know what your fridge needs alongside all those magnets? A creepy, 8-legged robot, that’s what. LEGO builder Sariel put together this crawling machine that uses Power Functions motors and magnets from LEGO train sets to trek up the steel side of a fridge. It stays on by lifting and moving no more than two legs simultaneously.

This animated short film envisions Earth 100,000 years in the future. After changes in the environment and climate have left the planet ravaged, new lifeforms emerge from the primordial soup, adapting and evolving to thrive in a very different world than we know today. Directed and animated by Wang & Söderström.

Irish artist Shane Gillen is a talented illustrator with a unique drawing style. But while he was creating an image of Vecna from Stranger Things 4, the creepy villain paid him a visit from the Upside Down. At least he didn’t snap Shane’s bones.

This open-world sandbox adventure is set in a whimsical world where strange and wonderful creatures roam the land – which just happens to be on the back of a giant beast. The game encourages players to grow and harvest plants, craft tools and shelters, and terraform the land as they nurture their Terrabeast.

Sasquatch, the Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra, and the Mongolian Death Worm all have one thing in common. Their existence is highly questionable. This category of elusive creatures is known as “cryptids,” and Erin from Mental Floss is here to walk us through more than 20 of these likely imaginary beasts.

A fun book for science geeks and anyone who enjoys biology, Believe It or Snot: The Definitive Field Guide to Earth’s Slimy Creatures catalogs snails, bugs, lizards, mammals, and other critters, and explores just how much goo, slime, and mucus they leave in their wake. From the authors of Does It Fart? and True or Poo?

Each of Calamityware’s whimsical playing cards is decked out with imagery of creepy, crawly, and occasionally cute creatures. Each of the face cards features strange and wonderful monster chowing down on its favorite snack food, and their backs are loaded with critters.

Look away if you don’t like creepy crawlies. You’ve been warned. Back in 2012, YouTuber gurutek was breaking down his saltwater fish tank when he discovered that a Eunice worm had been lurking beneath the gravel, where it had grown to a horrifically large size.