Whaaaaat’s uuuuuuuuuuup

by Meg on May 14, 2008

Seriously, what’s aaaap. Oh, and pass me a beer.

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TimesOnlineUK Slide show, that’s what!

{ 50 comments }

1 Annie J 05.14.08 at 12:28 am

Wowza excellent capture – fresh out of the egg!

2 fish eye no miko 05.14.08 at 12:34 am

Baby dragon!

3 berthaservant 05.14.08 at 12:38 am

Dinosaur behbeh? Or maybe that creature that Bart raised on “The Simpsons?”

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F22

4 Layla42 05.14.08 at 12:42 am

Great mouseover there Theo!
[Ooh, I didn't do this one, but thanks on behalf... - Ed.]

And what a cutie pie bebeh gator!

5 Lone 05.14.08 at 12:57 am

“Ha! You all owe me five bucks.” *grumbles from surrounding eggs

6 Catman Dude =^-.-^= 05.14.08 at 1:02 am

Yay!! Can’t wait for dem bittys to hatch! All yellow and puffy and….wah? WHAT??? WHAT MONSTROSITY IS THIS??!!?? ALL LEATHERY, DARK, AND UGLY??? EEEEWWWWW!! WHAR’S MUH PUFFY BITTYS?? waaaaaahhhh!

7 Keith Handy 05.14.08 at 1:05 am

It’s Trogdor!!!

8 Robin 05.14.08 at 1:07 am

eh? the Time link doesn’t work

[Fixed now... that was a tricky one... - Ed.]

9 Joost Schuur 05.14.08 at 1:08 am

I don’t think that head actually came out of that egg. It’s too big to both fit into that shell and still have room for a body.

10 k. o'dee 05.14.08 at 1:10 am

Oh, hello, mini crocodilian! Welcome to the world!

11 chanpon 05.14.08 at 1:18 am

I’m sure he’s thinking “I’m first!! I win!”

12 sundryreasons 05.14.08 at 1:19 am

Photoshop

13 Pliny 05.14.08 at 1:21 am

TROGDORRRR!!! Ha!

Doesn’t look like there’d be room for a body in the egg…

14 kayte 05.14.08 at 1:28 am

Last one out is a rotten egg! Haw-haw! Oh, I crack myself up – get it?! Haw-haw!

15 Rachel of Cyberia 05.14.08 at 1:34 am

“Honey! I said to get free-range eggs! These are ALL wrong!”

16 K2 05.14.08 at 2:11 am

University of Florida, all the way.

17 BGee 05.14.08 at 2:11 am

Could be a bit of foreshortening instead of photoshop

18 Keith Handy 05.14.08 at 2:19 am

Pliny sez:

“TROGDORRRR!!! Ha!

Doesn’t look like there’d be room for a body in the egg…”

Yeah, especially one with all those consummate V’s and a beefy arm for good measure.

19 Leslie 05.14.08 at 2:25 am

no photoshop there–it’s a TimesUK photo and everything about it looks right: the other eggs pipping at the same time in the incubator, the amazing way herps are folded into their eggs, the newness of the baby’s giant noggin–all real. So sez the former reptile house zookeeper.

20 kittymom 05.14.08 at 2:26 am

Definitely ’shopped! Cute, though…

21 Totalee Puppy 05.14.08 at 2:48 am

LONE–favorite comment! What gator buy wid all that cash? Scratch-Off ticket, “Reptile Riches?”

22 fritzlesnick 05.14.08 at 2:51 am

Not shopped – there’s a pliable membrane under the hard shell – the hard shell drops off and the baby (reptile or bird, either one) pokes its head thru’ the membrane, which then closes, making it look like the baby stuck its head thru’ a pinhole. It’s amazing to watch an “egg baby” unfold – it never seems possible that all that baby fit into the tiny shell.

23 Sprock 05.14.08 at 3:00 am

If I’m not mistaken, that baby just cried, “Bleen!”

24 Fegli 05.14.08 at 4:05 am

Holy moly! As if all that could fit in that wee little egg. How sweet! <3

25 bananasforbunnies 05.14.08 at 4:55 am

We need sound! Love their sounds…

26 Subhangi 05.14.08 at 5:21 am

HAY SUP!

27 Hon Glad 05.14.08 at 6:20 am

I must check the half dozen I just bought.

28 LisaL 05.14.08 at 7:40 am

Wow… doesn’t even look like its head would fit in the egg. Can’t even imagine exactly how it’s positioned in there to fit!

29 Joe 05.14.08 at 10:42 am

heh… FIRST!!!

30 Birdcage 05.14.08 at 10:50 am

What mom during childbirth or directly afterwards when holding a nice-sized baby for the first time doesn’t kinda think “dude, that was sooo ’shopped”. Lesson: big bebes come from small places.

31 jen 05.14.08 at 11:48 am

i’ll pass on the omelette this morning, dear.

i love the sounds the babies make when they come out of their shells, calling to their moms. “ahng, ahng, ahng!”

32 Theo 05.14.08 at 11:57 am

Birdcage, I think you are my new best friend.
I snickered, I LOLed, I showed my wife. And so did she.

33 Theo 05.14.08 at 11:58 am

…well, she snickered and LOL’d, anyway

34 Katrina 05.14.08 at 12:28 pm

Great, just what we need more crocodiles in the world- in 36-packs even.
I’ll take fluff over scales any day. But all God’s creatures gotta live and that is precisely why I live in Connecticut. No crocodiles in my Stop & Shop.

35 Wbirdie 05.14.08 at 12:48 pm

Dr. Ian Malcolm: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs…
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth…
*******
Well, the picture *does* remind one of a certain scene in Jurassic Park;)…….

36 Babs 05.14.08 at 12:53 pm

“What the? Where the hell am I?!” Dang, man, imagine the scene a few minutes later with ALL those eggs hatched. !!!!!!!!

37 Ermine_Violin 05.14.08 at 1:33 pm

Man, the photoshopped comments get old.

Raise your hand if you’re a photoshop expert…

yeah – I thought so.

38 Theo 05.14.08 at 1:51 pm

Hey I raised *my* hand… sorta… GIMP counts, right?

39 Kris 05.14.08 at 2:01 pm

Dang! Sprock beat me to the bleen comment!

40 Theresa 05.14.08 at 2:05 pm

I am INDIGNANT to see CO advocating underage crocodile beer-drinking.

41 haha 05.14.08 at 2:59 pm

Theresa, I wonder what Crocodile beer tastes like?

42 Catsquatch 05.14.08 at 3:41 pm

Awww….

What cute widdle teefs!!!

For awhile anyway….

;)

43 tank 05.14.08 at 4:40 pm

I shall be original and claim that this was MS Paint’ed (yeah right)

44 Claudia 05.14.08 at 5:04 pm

lol Tank, got me chuckling!

45 Kar 05.14.08 at 5:25 pm

Anyone else immediately think of Dr Doolittle? Just me?

Nevermind.

46 jmuhj 05.14.08 at 7:04 pm

WHUZZZUP homii

an NO BIIR — alkuhaul suks

47 villy 05.15.08 at 3:24 am

No Kar, I did too.

“are you my momma?”

48 Tammy 05.15.08 at 1:41 pm

Birdcage’s comment FTW.

I’m amazed that mass o’ head fit inside the egg. And how he’s got personality already! :)

49 Lemongrass 05.15.08 at 11:52 pm

At Vons, no one can hear you scream.

50 herzliebster 05.16.08 at 3:38 am

… And oft in some far Coptic town / The Missionary sits him down / To breakfast by the Nile: / The heart beneath his priestly gown / Is innocent of guile; / When suddenly the rigid frown / Of Panic is observed to drown / His customary smile. … Why does he start and leap amain / And scour the sandy Libyan plain /Like one that wants to catch a train / Or wrestles with internal pain? … Because he finds his egg contain — / Green, hungry, horrible and plain — / An Infant Crocodile.

(Hilaire Belloc)

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