Bubble Coral

Image: Nemo's great uncle

This coral is a big pile of living bubbles!

Birds, Bats and Watercress

Image: Barracuda1983
A Pipistrelle bat

I went to a farm so I could look at birds, listen to bats and eat entire branches of the Tree of Life! I mean watercress.

Picasso Sponge 7

A crab, presumably a King Crab because of the six walking legs, hangs out on a Yellow Picasso Sponge.

This particular specimen depicts a glass man placing an eyeball into an empty socket.

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Jelly Horns of Acanthanura

Image: Andy Murray
Acanthanura sp.

This is what happens when you splice a hedgehog with a jelly bean.

Pelican Flower

Image: dl7tny
Aristolochia grandiflora

It's a big flower that looks like a pelican and smells like a dead, rotting pelican!

Dancing White Lady Spider

Image: James Anderson
Leucorchestris arenicola

Arrrgh! It's a g-g-g-ghost!

Oh wait, no it isn't. It's a great, big spider. Phew!

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Aaaaarrrggh!

Picasso Sponge 6

A crab, presumably a King Crab because of the six walking legs, hangs out on a Yellow Picasso Sponge.

This particular specimen depicts a small child weeping Coca Cola tears.

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Bug-eyed Bug

Image: budak

It's a bug! With bugs for eyes!

Armoured Searobin

Image: NOAA-OER/BOEM

Hey... Isn't that demonspawn? It looks like demonspawn. I could swear that's demonspawn!

Saiga Antelope

Image: Darwin Initiative
Saiga tatarica

SCHNOZ ALERT!

Picasso Sponge 5

A crab, presumably a King Crab because of the six walking legs, hangs out on a Yellow Picasso Sponge.

This particular specimen depicts the victim of a gruesome murder slumped against a wall beneath the words "IT WASN'T ME" smeared in blood.

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Worst Necklace, Ever

Ooooooo! Is that a sparkling ruby at the end of a delicate, silver necklace?

No. No, it's not. Silly.

Adorable Alien!

That's an alien if ever I saw one! But it's not trying to take over the world, snatch our bodies or conduct so-called "experiments" with unwholesome probes and such. It's happy just to bob around like a sweetie-pie!

Acorn Worm

Image: David Shale

It's a dangerous business trying to handle an Acorn Worm. Not because it can harm YOU in any way, but because they're so soft and fragile that they're liable to fall apart in your hands.

And yet this delicate worm is just a few wrong turnings on the evolutionary tree from having its very own backbone!

Picasso Sponge 4

A crab, presumably a King Crab because of the six walking legs, hangs out on a Yellow Picasso Sponge.

This particular specimen depicts an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walking into a pub. The barkeep grins expectantly.

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A Vampire Wakes From Sleep

In the darkness of the deep
A vampire wakes from sleep
And opens his vampire cape

His vampire tentacles
Hold vampire spectacles
Through which he looks all around

And oh! What a sight
Bathing in light
A monster. A terror. A creep.

What beastly shape!
I am quite agape!
What horror! What crime! says he

What bestial sound!
I am quite aground!
What manner of fiend might you be?

Video: EVNautilus

The vampire insists
Demands and persists
But the stranger affords not a peep

So he shuts his vampire eye
Sighs a vampire sigh
And escapes into the darkness of the deep

Wolf Snail

Image: David A. Rodríguez Arias

The Wolf Snail is not covered in fur, doesn't howl at the moon and doesn't live within a fascinating social structure.

It is a vicious predator, though! So that's... good.