King Ragworm

Image: Alexander Semenov
Alitta virens / Nereis virens

King Ragworm! It sounds like one of Fagin's street-names but it really is a worm!

Springtail

Image: Tim Evison

BOING! No, really.

Prickly Dogfish

Image: New Zealand-American Submarine Ring of Fire 2005 Exploration, NOAA Vents Program
Oxynotus bruniensis

We usually think of sharks as streamlined killers, stalking the ocean in search of their next victim before racing toward them with immense speed and big, toothy jaws.

We don't normally think of them as triangles.

Harp Sponge

Image: MBARI
Chondrocladia lyra

Isn't it lovely? Among all the gnashing teeth and wobbling flab of the deep sea is a beautiful harp! A beautiful, meat-eating harp.

Marine Iguana

Image: lgooch via Flickr
Amblyrhynchus cristatus

Just imagine. There you are in warm, equatorial South America, munching on your luscious greens as you rest in the hot, moist air. A storm wanders by. It picks up the very branches on which you sit and casts them into the sea. You drift on your accidental raft for a long time, not knowing if you'll ever see land again.

Cyclosa and the Bridge of the Dead

Image: opencage.info

Cyclosa octotuberculata is a small, spiky spider with a nasty, nasty habit.