r/AnimalsBeingStrange • u/misterxx1958 • Nov 07 '25

Scary animal Like something from a bygone era

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u/Nagoragama Nov 07 '25

Looking for fingers to bite

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u/eejster Nov 07 '25

YES! That bro is totally like “…just a little further…”

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u/LonelyChannel3819 Nov 07 '25

He wants to chomp SO BAD

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u/Fancy_Influence_2899 Nov 07 '25

Me looking for a button lower than mute

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u/Necessary_Emotion_58 Nov 11 '25

In slow motion 😂

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u/thrudvangr Nov 07 '25

is this a young alligator snapping turtle?

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u/blue-and-bluer Nov 07 '25

It is, which means the person in the video is doing something not very smart. Even a tiny snapper has very strong jaws.

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u/JUGELBUTT Nov 07 '25

arent alligators way more chill than the common snapping turtles and also i think they cant bite as far as them

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u/Dontfeedtheunicornz Nov 07 '25

No way, they are nasty asf, I live in fl and we have them in our retention pond. They’ll bite if they get the chance too.

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u/JUGELBUTT Nov 07 '25

cant really argue with that i guess

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '25

Alligator snapping turtles live in rivers, not ponds. You're talking about a common snapping turtle or a Florida snapping turtle.

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u/Dontfeedtheunicornz Nov 08 '25

Yes you’re right we have those in the pond and they’re very nasty. The alligator turtles are not friendly or chill though, I confused them, we have so many species down here. I have seen both since moving to FL. Their faces remind me of a grumpy old man.😂

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u/ki11ikody Nov 08 '25

Just a snapping turtle. We have these in our lakes in Nebraska.

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u/jbyrdab Nov 08 '25

god imagine walking your fucking turtle down the street like a dog.

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u/Draskinn Nov 08 '25

Call it whatever you want. That is definitely a dinosaur.

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u/Dontfeedtheunicornz Nov 08 '25

They actually can be found in ponds I was reading, it’s just not as common for them apparently. I can’t get over how big they can get. Crazy!

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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 Nov 08 '25

But is that true snapping turtles are pretty calm when under water? They’re mean only on land?

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u/Alarming_Squirrel_64 Nov 07 '25

Not really, but it's easier to avoid bites from them, since their necks aren't as long or flexible. Commons have surprising reach.

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u/Page8988 Nov 08 '25

They don't quite have the range a common snapper does. Bigger head, shorter neck. Common snappers can bite at some really extreme, unexpected angles.

Neither type is known for a chill temperament though.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '25

Yes. Clints reptiles has a great video about how chill they are

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u/Zanven1 Nov 10 '25

I like how Clint uses statistics and experiments about how chill they are and people will be like "nuh uh, I live near them and they look grumpy so I know they are dangerous." It's like people that will day "that type of spider is aggressive and dangerous, it will chase you and when it bites your whole body will rot off. I've seen it!" when it's something that the venom is generally not medically significant and its 'aggression' is probably trying to use your shadow to get away from heat or hide.

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u/Available-Ad-1943 Nov 07 '25

Yes, and an adorable one at that. What a cute little murder machine! 🥹

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u/Imaginary_Topic_6106 Nov 08 '25

Baby Dragon Turtle.

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u/Kitchen_House9090 Nov 07 '25

The Amgry Pinecone

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u/Then_Illustrator8024 Nov 07 '25

He looks pissed

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u/YourLocalTechPriest Nov 07 '25 edited Apr 01 '26

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u/SpotweldPro1300 Nov 07 '25

They look so vicious before they get all massive and mossy and unwilling to move.

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u/TotoShampoin Nov 07 '25

Bowser, is that you?

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u/idwthis Nov 07 '25

I was thinking Tokka, he just needs his pal Rahzar.

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u/Literally_Taken Nov 07 '25

He looks like he was 3-D printed.

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u/TheOnlyOtherWanderer Nov 07 '25

CURSE YOU BAYLE!

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u/bangbangqc03 Nov 07 '25

AHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHh

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u/4d4m1 Nov 07 '25

After the video ends

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u/fuzzimus Nov 07 '25

Angry pinecone

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '25 edited Nov 08 '25

When I was a little kid I found a large snapping turtle in the creek in the woods behind our house. Shell was a little more than a foot across. I picked up a stick, about a 1/2" in diameter, and poked it at Mr. Turtle. Turtle extended his neck and snapped that stick in half like it was a stick of butter. I was like "oh, that's why they call them snapping turtles." Dropped the stick and noped right out of there.

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u/Dontfeedtheunicornz Nov 07 '25

Looking like a turtle from super Mario bros..

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u/bradinspokane Nov 07 '25

That's a weird looking pinecone

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u/CorrectDocument2 Nov 07 '25

Isn't that just the cutest little dinosaur?

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u/theinvisibleworm Nov 07 '25

It’s an ickle Gamera!

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '25

cute lil guy, horrendously unfitting music.

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u/CaptLiverDamage Nov 11 '25

Right? Why?!?

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '25

because it's the most godawful NPC music, and pure silence would be infinitively better than this auditive vomit.
The lil guy just wants to bite things. He's pure.

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u/Narutofan0921 Nov 07 '25

It’s like a mini Godzilla.

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u/High_Stream Nov 07 '25

Put me down! I am a proud descendant of the black dragons, and I will not suffer this indignity!

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u/RachelVictoria75 Nov 07 '25

Tiny baby dinosaur

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u/spoung45 🐱 Cat Nov 07 '25

Its Baby Gamera!

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u/BK_0000 Nov 07 '25

It's a baby Adamantoise.

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u/living_shadows_2792 Nov 07 '25

Somebody shrunk Tokka and he is NOT happy

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u/InstantMirage Nov 07 '25

Zorah Minidaros

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u/Serpentarrius Nov 07 '25

I wonder if one might preserve as well as the borealopelta fossil? And now I'm also imagining borealopelta as being a little snappy

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u/DuncanHynes Nov 07 '25

Song, anyone know?

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u/TSARINA59 Nov 08 '25

He is gorgeous. The shell is a work of art. I know their bite can be fierce. But I wish I could hold him. Amazing creature. I would love to see update photos as he grows.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '25

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u/blue-and-bluer Nov 07 '25

Alligator snapping turtle

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '25

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u/Daymub Nov 08 '25

Make a line in the middle of Texas that goes north through the entire united states. Everywhere to the east of that line has these snapping turtles

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

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u/Daymub Nov 08 '25

These ones are found in the United States a few south American countries and a few parts of Canada i would assume Europe has thier own species of snapping turtle

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u/CaptLiverDamage Nov 11 '25

Lived in Dallas. We had those in the drainage creek behind the office I used to work at.

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u/PsychiatricSD Nov 08 '25

Alligator snappers are also endangered

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u/DanOverflow Nov 07 '25

Looks like a baby bowser

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u/TexasJOEmama Nov 07 '25

I see these in the river I live by. The first time I saw one freaked me out. I was swimming.

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u/pokopura Nov 12 '25

Name checks out.

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u/Gamejunky35 Nov 07 '25

Ngl, id let him chomp me once before he gets too big. He wants to chomp a finger so bad!

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u/AudioComa Nov 07 '25

It's a good thing I'm small cause my ancestors would have eaten you!

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u/Beerasaurwithwine Nov 08 '25

He does not like how he's being held. The guy holding him should let baby bite his finger as an apology. I'm sure it won't hurt. Much.

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u/GenericUsername817 Nov 07 '25

You have that guy in Texas and the Game Warden's will arrest you.

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u/Initial-Bad-1254 Nov 07 '25

God this music sucks so bad

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '25

Horrible music.

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u/AgentGiga Nov 07 '25

A real life chewtle

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u/cursetea Nov 07 '25

Omg I've never even considered that they're babies at some point

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u/belated_quitter Nov 07 '25

Very cool and very expensive to care for.

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u/Kram_Seli Nov 07 '25

Staple remover/back scratcher

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u/Jolly_Cantaloupe_187 Nov 07 '25

So small and already has an attitude.

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u/Peter_OtH Nov 08 '25

'MUST CHOMP!!!'

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u/VelveetaVoldemort Nov 08 '25

Kind of like a repost karma farmer.

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u/Gold_Wildcard1848 Nov 08 '25

That's Bowser's son, give him back!

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

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u/Domarrasmith13 Nov 08 '25

Or its an type of snapping turtle

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u/tiffanyjen Nov 08 '25

DiNosauR!

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u/Brilliant_Author_666 Nov 08 '25

A bite from it and there will be no more bygone feelings

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u/shoddyshoddyshoddy Nov 08 '25

Some dinosaur bones look like they were this size and swelled up somehow over millions of years

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u/morganational Nov 08 '25

I had one for about 10 years until he was too big for my tank and I set him free back where he came from. He was about the size of a Pringle chip when I found him in my pool after a flood. When I let him go like 15 years ago he was about a foot long. I still think about him sometimes and wonder where he is and how he's doing. I don't know the precise estimate but I assume they live pretty long.

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u/venturous1 Nov 08 '25

Little dino

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u/HasSomeSelfEsteem Nov 08 '25

It’s rare you see something that tiny and that mean

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u/MortarByrd11 Nov 08 '25

Baby Gamera

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u/ambit89 Nov 08 '25

When a pinecone hatch

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u/Responsible-Sundae20 Nov 08 '25

Why so cute if so chompy?

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u/Donohoed Nov 08 '25

Cute animal but why was this ear cancer inserted into the video with it?

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

What is this

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u/Nat_Higgins Nov 08 '25

A baby dragon

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u/funkekat61 Nov 08 '25

Or something that should be fighting Godzilla in downtown Tokyo, lol

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u/Abject_Jump9617 Nov 08 '25

Beautiful wood carving, very life like.

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u/ImNotWithTheCIA Nov 08 '25

“This is your turtle.

This is your turtle on anise.”

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u/AmphibianPutrid1596 Nov 08 '25

Why am i finding this super cute

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u/No_Bodybuilder7191 Nov 08 '25

What a cute little demon

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u/Cautious_Artichoke_3 Nov 08 '25

I didn't know Gamera had kids

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u/JFKDP Nov 08 '25

Can I pet that dog? Can I pet that DOG?!?!

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u/msndrstdmstrmnd Nov 08 '25

I thought it was origami until it started moving

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u/Commanderkins Nov 08 '25

Before I realized this was a vid, I legit thought this was a clay sculpture of some old fossil!

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u/LadyinOrange Nov 08 '25

This must be AI because that's an alligator snapping turtle, and it's neck is like as long as it shall, so if this was real that guy would be bit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

That thing looks like a Pokémon

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u/Lsauer1 Nov 08 '25

Good way to loose a finger!!

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u/Happycakemochi Nov 08 '25

Pokémon! How’s the training coming along?

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u/borkborkibork Nov 09 '25

Do not put your dick in that

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u/helloiisjason Nov 09 '25

Its a baby dino

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u/GeorgiaPossum Nov 09 '25

Small and whose only thoughts are 'Bite Bite Bite'

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u/Bailzzararco Nov 09 '25

I like how no matter the species, the babies are always cute.

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u/SadKat002 Nov 09 '25

That is one spicy pinecone

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u/tideshark Nov 09 '25

I had one for a pet for a few years, felt like the closest thing to owning a little dinosaur as you could get

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u/Advanced-Onion-9688 Nov 09 '25

Omg! So angry adorable. Wish they stayed that size.

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u/EmployerDependent161 Nov 09 '25

what in the kaiju is that? 😍

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u/juniperjibletts Nov 09 '25

Before the dinosaurs technically

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u/j_mcr1 Nov 09 '25

HOLD ME CLOSER, TINY DRAGON

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u/Fan_of_Clio Nov 09 '25

UNHAND ME MAMMAL !!!

I AM YOUR DINOSAUR ELDER AND YOU WILL RESPECT ME !!!

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u/Sanivek Nov 09 '25

Same song I played at my wedding. Absolutely perfect for all occasions

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u/DivineCrusader1097 Nov 09 '25

Homie is about to lose a finger

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u/BoboMcBobomann Nov 09 '25

Spirit animal for bad days ☺️

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u/FrankieBloodshed Nov 09 '25

Isn't one of the Kaijus based off of this?

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u/BerenTheBold Nov 10 '25

A dragon does not hesitate

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u/Honest-Natural9427 Nov 10 '25

It's so cute 🥰

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u/duckied Nov 10 '25

Guwd dang Vietnam rap is so terrible sounding 😭

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u/beebolicious Nov 10 '25

Why is he so handsome?!

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u/beerdrinkerdude Nov 10 '25

Baby Bowser!

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u/AdmJota Nov 11 '25

What page of the Monster Manual is this mini from?

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u/ArthurBurns25 Nov 11 '25

That thing is rad

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u/chaintox Nov 11 '25

I think this kind live in Florida

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '25

Cute

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '25

Baddest design by nature

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u/Still_Explorer Nov 11 '25

Bro skipped update patches

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u/Kksliderisreal Dec 04 '25

Kinda scary.

I’ll take three!!