Common Cuttlefish

Image: Eric Burgers
Sepia officinalis

They call it the Common Cuttlefish but I don't think there's anything "common" about any cuttlefish. In the land of the weird, cuttlefish reign supreme.

Sentinel Crab

Image: budak

It's the perfect guard dog...

Rhinochimaera

Image: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition

Who ever heard of a spook
With quite so much of a snoot?
It swims in the dark
It's called a Ghost Shark
And its face looks like an elf's boot

Giraffe Weevil

Image Frank Vassen
Trachelophorus giraffa

Forget the wide-eyed lemurs, grotesquely overweight trees and miniature chameleons who could live a full and eventful life clinging to a perm, the real majesty of Madagascar is in its Giraffe Weevils.

JAWS: Bobbit Worm

Image: Ria Tan, wildsingapore.com

It's always a treat to catch up on the murderous antics of old friends!

Moss Ball

Image: Nancy O

Some tribbles are no trouble at all!

Fangtooth

Anoplogaster cornuta

If you heard "Fangtooth" and thought you were about to see a single fang, prepare to be disappointed. This is more like Fangface.

15 Poison Dart Frogs

There are over 200 species of Poison Dart Frog found in South and Central America, each one advertising their stomach-curdling defences with bright colour and vivid pattern. Some, like the Strawberry Poison Dart Frog, have more than a dozen wildly differing morphs within the same species.

Here's but the slightest taste of aposematic colouration which duly caught my eye!

Worm Snail

Image: California Academy of Sciences

Ahhh! Sometimes I just have to lie back and bask in nature's boundless capacity to be completely stationary!

Chimaera

Image: NOAA

The original Chimaera was a mythical Greek monster composed of a lion with a goat's head sticking out if its back and a snake instead of a tail. You have to admit, a goat's head on a lion's back is way more impressive than the ear on a mouse they did in that primitive age known as 1997. Those Greeks were way ahead of their time.

Aplacophora

Image: NOAA PMEL Vents Program

Proof that molluscs can worm with the best of them!

Lace Bug

Image: Gilles San Martin

Look at this lovely Lace Bug! How could anyone hate something so pretty? You'll see!

Grimalditeuthis bonplandi

Image: MBARI

How the weak shall inherit the earth. Or at least the sea.