Image: Nuytsia@Tas |
Sunday 28 April 2013
Chiton
Friday 26 April 2013
Atlantid
Image: Roger R. Seapy |
Wednesday 24 April 2013
Elephant's Foot, Dioscorea elephantipes
Image: alijava Dioscorea elephantipes |
Sunday 21 April 2013
Deep Scenes from Wiring the Abyss
Here's a fantastic video from Ocean Networks Canada, featuring some highlights from their Wiring the Abyss expedition of 2012.
This Sea Cucumber is one of my favourites. What else would you expect to see if you opened Pandora's Box and unleashed all the evils of the world? A big, black cloud of noxious gas? A great, big dragon who lets out a big, black cloud of noxious gas every time he huffs and puffs? A pile of fortune cookies with stuff like "hate is cool" written inside?
Nope! Of course it's a Sea Cucumber! A small, translucent Sea Cucumber with weird little legs and weird little muck-plungers around its mouth. And a strange suggestion of devil wings on its back, as it floats in the darkness with ease, leisure and malevolence.
Let's cross our tentacles and hope they're not all quite so fiendish down there!
Friday 19 April 2013
Oh, For FLIPS Sake!
"(unintelligible)"
"WOOOOOOWWW!"
"OHHHHH!"
"He just took a big header."
So it was the day the crab flipped.
Wednesday 17 April 2013
Horned Guan
Image: guppiecat Oreophasis derbianus |
Sunday 14 April 2013
Owlfly
Image: ROCKYKSWONG |
"Oh. Actually, I think it might be some kind of insect. I will call it 'Owlfly'. Because it looks just like an owl. EXACTLY like an owl. Amazing!"
That probably never happened. But what about their young? Do they look more like owls?
Friday 12 April 2013
Badger Bat?
Image: DeeAnn Reeder, Bucknell University Niumbaha superba |
Thursday 11 April 2013
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, US Edition
You can get it from Amazon and wherever else. Also, yeah, I'm afraid that there is one of those affiliate links where I get tuppence (maybe even two!) for anything anyone buys after clicking on it. I think I get a percentage, so its a shame they don't sell houses or something on there.
Barring real estate, you could get The Book of Barely Imagined Beings! I wrote a little review when it came out in the UK. It's a great book! Taking us through the myths and legends inspired by animals through the ages, and the knowledge and inspiration that life at its weirdest can still hold for us.
It's full of wonderful examples of how boring, old, natural reality can be just as awe-inspiring as the most beautiful stories we can come up with.
I quite like that. Also Caspar Henderson seems to be ridiculously clever and well read. Just... stupendously so. He probably doesn't have a Facebook account or anything. Proper "book guy"!
You can check out his blog here, which includes the quote "we are monkeys with money and guns" from Tom Waits. Good stuff!
Wednesday 10 April 2013
Venus Comb Murex
Image: museoscienzesgt Murex Pecten |
Sunday 7 April 2013
Fireworm, Chloeia
Image: mentalblock_DMD Red-tipped Fireworm, Chloeia viridis |
Friday 5 April 2013
Wednesday 3 April 2013
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