Trilobite Beetle

Image: budak

Trilobite Beetles are beetles of eternal youth! Or is it eternal age? After all, it's a beetle that never quite grows up but at the same looks a lot like a 250 million-year-old trilobite.

I guess you just can't keep a good arthropod down.

Wentletrap

Image: Steve Jurvetson

Proof yet again that nature is the best sculptor!

That's what happens when you have a billion years of experience.

Red Cushion Sea Star

Image: James St. John
Oreaster reticulatus

This is quite possibly the most uncomfortable cushion I've ever seen.

Mud Dragon

Image: WoRMS Editorial Board

From the sounds of it, this must surely be the lowliest of all dragons. Fire dragons soar overhead, frost dragons slumber in beautiful ice lairs, swamp dragons brood in their stinking miasmas, even flightless flu dragons get to lie in bed all day.

What do poor old Mud Dragons get? They get to wriggle. In the mud. Hmmm... Someone drew a very short straw.

Glass Finger

Image: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana

Have you heard of the glass delusion?

Deep Sea Valentines

Image: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010

It's the perfect Valentine's gift: a beautiful bouquet of red blobs!