Return of the Cicadas

Samuel Orr

Here's a fantastic video of the Periodical Cicadas. The Magicicadas!

Red Triangle Slug

Image: Michael Murphy/AFP/Getty Images
Triboniophorus graeffei

Oh dear! Someone's been swimming in the nail polish!

Cicada Killer Wasp

Image: Mike Keeling
Sphecius speciosus

Does exactly what it says on the tin! Such honesty is scant comfort if you're a Cicada.

Lamprey

Image: NOAA

Pray, little lamb! Pray for your tiny soul!

Cookeina Mushroom

Image: Geoff Gallice

Fairy bath!

Borneo Forestdragon

Image: Bernard DUPONT
Gonocephalus borneensis

Oh, dear. Fashion is such a fickle business. After all that time growing a mohawk from your neck up, it turns out you should have been growing it from your neck down! Darn... and you only just waxed your back after getting rid of the dorsal dreadlocks.

Cicada

Image: James Jordan

Take some earplugs and put them in your ears. Then get some earmuffs and put them over your ears. And then take your hands and cover your ears. You are now ready for a close encounter with a Cicada.

Ausubel's Mighty Claws Lobster

Image: WoRMS for SMEBD
Dinochelus ausubeli

The surgeon will see you now...

Moon-headed Sidegill Slug

Image: berniedup
Euselenops luniceps

It's a chocolate chip pancake with rolled, chocolate wafers in! Delicious! But what is it doing on the sea floor when I have a perfectly good plate right here?

Seahorse

Image: Nick Hobgood

Seahorses are fish who can barely swim and the males get pregnant. Seahorse, you're doing it wrong!

Myrianida pachycera

Image: Greg W. Rouse
Myrianida pachycera

It's a worm! A worm with a tail! A tail made of worms!

Wandering Legs

We care for them, clean them and lovingly wrap them in linens to defend against the elements...

We walk them, break them and bend them to our merciless will, regardless of the pain, calluses or fungal growth...

But some day, all legs must fly the nest.

Twig-like Feather-legged Spider

Image: Pen Araneae

The trees have eyes!

Tomato Frog

Image: Frank.Vassen

Tomato Frogs are as red as a tomato and almost as spherical. They're a bit more poisonous, though!

Sailfin Lizard

Image: OZinOH

Just because the dinosaurs died out doesn't mean reptiles of today can't benefit from some of those ancient ideas!