Blunt-headed Burrowing Frog

Image: Khunpolrattachana
Glyphoglossus molossus

Now that is a face.

Or... most of one, at least.

Sea Spiders: Paddling and Plummeting

Sea Spiders aren't really spiders. They aren't even arachnids. In fact, they're barely more than legs. Not even the daddiest, longleggiest of Daddy Longlegs can out-leg a Sea Spider.

Fanfin Angler

Image: Rebikoff-Niggeler Foundation
Caulophryne jordani

SPOTTED: Reclusive Fanfin Angler and her latest beau step out for a romantic lure-lit dinner.

She doesn't appear pleased.

In the Pink

Image: Bernard DUPONT

Sometimes...

Bony-eared Assfish

Image: Royal BC Museum
Acanthonus armatus

Now, that's just rude.

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.