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Sunday 31 March 2013
Antlion
Friday 29 March 2013
Hairy Octopus
You'll NEVER guess what a Hairy Octopus is! Go on, try!
Nope.
Nope.
No! Although Dr. Octopus: The Hippie Years sounds like a great idea to me.
Give up?
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Sunday 24 March 2013
Four-eyed Fish
Image: petechar Anableps sp. |
That's what mean people used to call their bespectacled chums back before geeks and nerds took over the world. I doubt they'd say that if they came across a guy who really, ACTUALLY had four eyes. They'd probably say something like "look at that guy! He has four eyes!" And all his friends would think he meant someone was wearing glasses and they'd wonder what all the fuss was about.
Friday 22 March 2013
Wandering Leg Sausauge
Crurifarcimen vagans
It's a MILLIPEDE! I know it sounds like an innuendo from Sex and the City or whatever they're watching these days, but it's a millipede.
I looked it up and it turns out Sex and the City finished almost 10 years ago, not including the films. I can't believe it! I'm so out of touch! Although that particular programme is just one degree of separation from both Star Trek and Columbo, so that's good enough for me.
Wednesday 20 March 2013
Sunday 17 March 2013
Green Lacewing
Friday 15 March 2013
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Fish to Catch Worms
We all love/hate/stare-aghast-at-the-unnatural-horror-of-a-world-gone-wrong when something without bones eats something that has bones.
Sunday 10 March 2013
Saturday 9 March 2013
Whip Coral Goby
Image: Nick Hobgood |
Friday 8 March 2013
Thursday 7 March 2013
Wednesday 6 March 2013
Gorgonian Horned Shrimp
Image: liquidguru Miropandalus hardingi |
Tuesday 5 March 2013
Whip Coral Shrimp
Image: PacificKlaus |
Monday 4 March 2013
Black Coral
Image: JennyHuang |
Sunday 3 March 2013
The Blenny in His Den-ny
Image: Saspotato |
Friday 1 March 2013
The Ugly Sea Cucumber
Image: NOAA/MBARI Abyssocucumis abyssorum |
Or that this big, wriggly maggot is a Sea Cucumber spotted at a depth of 3,000 metres (9,800 ft)?
What happens next, I wonder?
Will it spin a cocoon and later emerge a beautiful swan?
A butterfly, maybe?
A fly?
No.
Sea Cucumber cares not for your "beauty" and your carefully constructed standards.
Sea Cucumber is Sea Cucumber.
And there's an end to it.