It’s been a good couple of weeks when it comes to the discovery of hideous and terrifying new animals. In addition to some creepy amphibian worms and the world’s deepest dwelling land animal, a study in the Journal of Mammalogy has shown that a terrifying variety of leaf-nosed bat, found in Vietnam and pictured above, is genetically distinct from any other known species of bat. It’s also distinctly better at causing nightmares.

When you think of amphibians, you probably think of frogs or salamanders, you know, something that at least has the potential to be remotely cute, or at least not terrifying. Well, allow me to introduce you to some newly discovered amphibious worms which are, I think, ugly. Seven new species of limbless amphibians (which fall under the order “Gymnophiona”) have been found hiding in the dirt in India, constituting an entire new family in and of themselves.

Walking through the darkness of your bedroom, you suddenly a feel wet, slimy tendril wrap around your neck, lifting you off your feet toward the ceiling. Unfortunately, you don’t have a gun on your person because you thought your bedroom was pretty safe, and instead of shooting your way free, you are pulled up toward the Barnacle and experience an unfortunate death on a ceiling. At least, that’s how it’d be if this sweet Half-Life Barnacle lamp created by Daniel Ritthanondh wasn’t just a sweet lamp, and was actually the bane of your walking-through-a-dark-hallway existence. Check out another picture after the break, featuring the actual lightbulbs.

This video of a cockroach giving birth to a swarm of baby cockroaches continues our recent tradition of informing you how disgusting nature is. The roach gives birth upside-down, and looks like it splits in half to release a swarm of tiny, white baby cockroaches that live up to the moniker and swarm all over. Sweet dreams tonight, you guys.

Taken by researchers from the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, this is supposedly the first-ever picture of a shark eating another shark. The shark doing the eating may not look exactly like a shark, but it is, don’t worry; it’s a tasselled wobbegong shark, which happens to look like that. It’s a type of carpet shark, which if you know your Discovery Channel, would know that they hang out on the bottom of the ocean and pretend to be the ground until dinner swims by. Normally, they eat smaller things, but they have the ability to dislocate their jaw and eat larger things, which is the brown-banded bamboo shark getting gobbled up above.

Everything about this video of a Russian power plant exploding off in the distance and lighting the sky a range of colors seems too perfect. The car that caught the video happened to have a dashboard mounted camera, and the driver seems to be listening to John Lennon’s “Imagine,” playing just softly enough to make this video not unlike a teaser to some nuclear holocaust movie. Extremely unsettling.

I know that most of you have thought about your health and digestive system while slurping down a bowl of Maruchan instant ramen. However, if you haven’t, I’m about to force the issue thanks to a new art-science crossover projected called Mouth to Anus (M2A, not kidding). The brain child of artist Stefani Bardin, working with gastroenterologist Dr. Braden Kuo of Harvard University, the project centers around data from a pill cam that shows you what processed food looks like during digestion. In case you’re wondering, the answer is “distressing.”

The above image does not depict a shot glass full of red Kool-Aid that was left in a very warm garage for a few months, but a drink intentionally made to look insane. Dubbed the “Alien Brain Hemorrhage,” the cocktail consists of half a shot glass full of peach schnapps, with Bailey’s Irish Cream poured on top. Once the shot is almost full, a small amount of blue curacao is added, and once that settles, a small splash of grenadine tops the drink off. Head on past the break to check out a video of the concoction.

When you get right down to it, Bubble Bobble is pretty disturbing to begin with; it’s a game featuring two Bubble Dragons, Bub and Bob, who can produce bubbles from out of their mouths, trap enemies in them, then pop said mouth bubbles and destroy the enemies trapped within. Tobias Kwan shows us just how disturbing Bub and Bob actually are, with the above painting.

No, this isn’t the terrifying spawn of C3PO and the thing from Virus. According to the YouTube information, this delightful robot baby was constructed for an soap opera by British animatronics expert Chris Clarke, so I suppose we can blame him for bringing this abomination into the world. Perhaps I shouldn’t be so harsh. Besides its metal wire fingers, stubby legs that abruptly end mid-calf, and horrifying face-hole covered only by an array of moving panels, what’s not love? If you think it looks creepy now, just wait until you see it start moving. See the video, after the break.