Cow Shark

Image: Peter Southwood

Cow Shark. Cow. Shark.

This is a most unlikely alliance.

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This Picasso Sponge depicts a self-absorbed tree who is unable to see the wood for himself.

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Halcampa arctica

Image: SERPENT Media Archive Project
Halcampa arctica

Well, would you look at that. It's a water resistant camp fire! Whatever will they think of next?

Goldentail Gecko

Image: Dave Fleming
Strophurus taenicauda

Wow! Look at this beauty! That black and silver scale pattern would make for a sweet tie. Maybe a pair of shoes to go with it. Maybe a suit, too. And a couch? Carpets? Duvet cover!

That'd be one sassy bachelor pad.

Moon Snail

Image: Lynette

I guess I'm still stuck with a blinkered, terrestrial view of things but I can't help it. I'm constantly surprised by predatory, meat-eating snails!

And this one even couples it with a bit of carpentry...

Black Sea Devil

Deep sea anglerfish par excellence!

Glowing Worms of Someone's or Something's Death

Image: Jeff Cremer

Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a train heading straight for you.

Other times it's a meat-eating worm! Though that's admittedly more rare.

Banded Bull Frog

Image: Thomas Brown
Kaloula pulchra

A small frog with an ENORMOUS frog bursting to get out!

Lampshade Spider

Image: Ryan Kaldari

At last! Spiders who use their silk to make useful, household objects! Someday we'll be able to go to IKEA and instead of taking home an annoying flat pack bookcase to assemble, it'll just be a box of trained spiders.

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This Picasso Sponge depicts Truth and Beauty. They're not on speaking terms.

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Yet another one from Esther! Wowee!

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Phyrella mookiei

Image: Michonneau F, & Paulay G

Good grief! Is that a sea cucumber attempting to be fuzzy AND wuzzy, both? Does it expect a cuddle?

Fairy Lantern, Thismia

Image: Tindo2

A tiny, wondrous cheat? Or a glimpse into fairy biotechnology?

Tanaid

Image: Moorea Biocode

You know when you turn over a stone and find half an ant's nest in all its bustle, a small community of millipedes waking up from its slumber and a surprisingly large spider scurrying away into the undergrowth and you think "wow, who knew there would be so many legs under this one stone?"

That's pretty much how I felt when I found out about the Tanaids.

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This Picasso Sponge depicts the ghostly apparition of a housing development as it haunts a moonlit forest clearing.

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Another one from Esther! Woo!

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Snipe Eel

Image: NOAA Photo Library

Eels are famously long and thin but none are as stupendously skinny as the Snipe Eel!

Crucifix Frog

Image: eyeweed
Notaden bennettii

The brutal, Roman execution device is now a snazzy pattern on a plump frog...

Metamorphosis complete!

Rhinoceros Viper

Image: Josh More
Bitis nasicornis

Vipers already have two long, sharp things sticking out of their upper jaw, so what do they need with yet more sticking out of their snout?

So unfair!

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This Picasso Sponge depicts a dystopian future in which the sky above the port is the colour of television, tuned to Saturday morning cartoons.

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Humongous thanks to Dear Reader Esther for the picture!

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