Creatonotos and the Inflatable Hairy Bits

Image: Juan Manuel Sánchez

Hmmm... I'm not completely sure, but I have a feeling this may be disgusting.

Phyllodesmium briareum

Image: Steve Childs
Phyllodesmium briareum

It's a tentacular spectacular!

Pinecone Fish

Image: Tomarin

It's a fish covered in plates of bright yellow armour! Some day, all children will have to wear something like this before they're allowed to play outside.

Zigzag Coral

Image: NOAA
Madrepora oculata

Behold the glowing zigzag!

Arabian Sand Boa

Image: Omid Mozaffari
Eryx jayakari

This has got to be the derpiest herp in the world!

Mesothele Spider

Image: Amir Ridhwan

The most ancient spiders in the world!

Beard Heath

Image: Kevin Thiele

Hairy flowers!

Fight! Fight! Fight!

This is exactly how fights at my school always started.

Guitarfish

Image: LASZLO ILYES

What do you get when you cross a shark and a ray?

A guitarfish!

No, I don't get it either.

Spiral Arms

Image: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2014 Expedition

A Dumbo Octopus attempts to mimic a spiral galaxy the only way he knows how: by spiralling his arms.

Video: oceanexplorergov

This is the first time a Dumbo Octopus has been seen in this position and it just goes to show the impressive ingenuity of these charismatic creatures when it comes to a game of charades.

Hopkins' Rose

Image: Ken-ichi Ueda
Okenia rosacea

A rose by any other name would... seldom have nearly as many tentacles.

Spirorbis

Image: Malcolm Storey, bioimages.org.uk

Oooooh! This is what happens when snails and worms share ideas! Who new annelids were into biomimicry?

Journey to the Back Passage of Holothuria

Image: Klaus Stiefel

We're talking anus. Sea Cucumber anus.

The FLOOZY, For Men

Image: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program

Barely anyone talks about the so-called "financial crisis" any more. You know what that means, don't you? It's time to spend all your money.