Slingjaw Wrasse

Image: Mark Rosenstein
Epibulus insidiator

You're at a party, having fun, drinking drinks, nibbling nibbles when suddenly, disaster strikes: they've run out of those little sausages on sticks! What madness is this? What lunacy? What dark forces are at work to deprive us of our little sausages on sticks?

You look around and notice that some, fellow party-goers are walking around with paper plates piled high with gluttonous quantities of little sausages on sticks. They've hoarded them, the rascals!

Strike of the Spider's Snake

Image: Omid Mozaffari
Pseudocerastes urarachnoides

Weird animal friendships. The crow and the cat. The fox and the cat. The owl and the cat. The human and the cat. Also the elephant and the ostrich, but stuff like that doesn't involve a cat. I heard that whenever love manages to get through a cat's haughty disinterest, an angel gets its wings.

Halimeda Crab

Huenia heraldica

It's a plant! It's a crab! It's...

Cushion Star

Image: Patrick Randall

Even mermaids need a place to lay down their head.

Starfish to the rescue!

Spiky Grouse Grasshopper

Image: Bernard DUPONT
Discotettix belzebuth

Ouch!

Just looking at this thing hurts!

Decorated Warbonnet

Image: David Csepp, NMFS/AKFSC/ABL
Chirolophis decoratus

To battle!

Grab your warbonnet! Don your grapple-gown! Your battle-bodice! Your combat-corset! Peril-petticoat! Havoc-heels! And don't forget the embroidery of enmity and the sequins of strife.