Cazira verrucosa

Image: 林 敬偉

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Who let this guy out of the isolation ward?

Dead Man's Fingers

Image: James Lynott
Alcyonium digitatum

Someone's sleeping with the fishes...

Call Forth the Hallowe'en Horrors

It's Halloween! That time of year when we listen for the lifting of coffin lids with death, eavesdrop on the whispering chants of mournful forests with darkness and hear the lamentation of our enemies as we drive them before us and crush their women with evil. Woo!

Behold Death. He's taken up gardening. Or so he claims. I don't think he's supposed to bury the seeds 6 feet deep. And aren't you meant to take them off the tree first?

Here be Darkness. She's teaching the ghouls how to cook. It's quite easy because the ghouls eat raw meat but her three-tier offal cake with carved bone colonnade is quite a sight!

Yonder is Evil. He's dressed up in a long, white robe with a little cardboard halo fixed onto his head with a piece of wire. He does that every year but it's hilarious every time!
Let's see who joined the party this year!

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This Picasso Sponge depicts a zombie and a skeleton taking off their human-suits to enjoy Halloween.

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The Blobs!

Check out this beautiful octopus! Is that a devil costume?

Strange Worm

Strange by name, strange by nature...

Chinese Crocodile Lizard

Image: spacebirdy
Shinisaurus crocodilurus

Hey, look! It's a Chinese Crocodile Lizard!

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He blinked!

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This Picasso Sponge depicts a post-apocalyptic world of darkness and fallen skyscrapers in which a man receives a parking ticket.

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Toad Lubber

Image: Greg Lasley

It's the stone golem of grasshoppers!

Poralia rufescens

Image: NOAA Photo Library

TECHNOLOGY: Chinese scientists launch first living satellite into orbit.

Razorfish

Image: Bernard DUPONT

Can you believe this? There are cut throat razors drifting about in the sea! If you happen to come across an unusually hairy merman on your travels, tell him to be more careful.

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This Picasso Sponge depicts two worlds in a savage fight to decide which is the best possible world.

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Sloane Englewood: Web of Lies

Sloane Englewood jumped into the Volkswagen Polo Mk2 and sped away as fast as he dared down the wet dirt track. He was tired and filthy. Every muscle in his body ached and he could feel a fever coming on. He hadn't been prepared to spend a rainy night in the woods, hiding from Scorpion Agents and fearing an ambush behind every tree.

Emperor Shrimp

Image: Nick Hobgood
Periclimenes imperator

The Emperor will see you now...

Spanish Dancer

Image: moments in nature by Antje Schultner
Hexabranchus sanguineus

Hey look! It's a slug!

Doing... the flamenco?

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This Picasso Sponge depicts a painter painting a painter painting a painter painting a painter...

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Warty Sea Cucumber

Image: Richard Ling
Parastichopus parvimensis

Oh, great. What new abomination do sea cucumbers have in store for us this time?

Flat Huntsman Spider

Image: Bryce McQuillan
Delena cancerides

It's an arachnophobe's worst nightmare! Aside from the one with the 6 foot spider. Or the one where your auntie turns into a spider and says "kiss your auntie good night! Aaaahahhahaa!" Or the one where you wake up one morning and you've turned into a spider, and instead of developing a new sympathy for spiders you just scream and scream because there's a giant spider on your bed.