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Triggerfish 25 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Clown Triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum) Triggerfish are already mean, violent and dressed like a clown, but are they ARMED as well? Crime! Villainy! Shooting people! From Batman's Joker to Dick...
Semi-slug 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Image: Bernard DUPONT You got your slugs, you got your snails, but don't forget your "a little from column A, a little from column B" semi-slugs! Semi-slugs are snails who have a shell that's too sm...
Parenting. Undertaker Style 21 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
You know how it is... You run up and down, down and up looking for a nice, fresh corpse. You spend hours burying it underground, stripping off the fur and covering every inch of flesh in anti-bacteri...
Spiny Lobster 18 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Image: Valentine's Dive Center Spiny Lobsters... more spiny than lobster! It must be difficult to be a crustacean when humans are around. There you are enjoying life; swimming in crystal clear lago...
Oaten Pipe Hydroid 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Image: Bernard Picton, National Museums Northern Ireland Tubularia indivisa Oaten Pipe? I would have called them Flesh-flowers, because that's the kind of person I am. Oaten Pipe Hydroids are hydroi...
Aardvark 14 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Image: Valerie Orycteropus afer Hey! It's the rat-tailed, rabbit-eared, pig-nosed heffalump! I'd recognize it anywhere! That's the thing about Aardvarks: each part of their body looks like it came f...
Wobbegong 11 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Image: Richard Ling The Wobbegong may have a pretty silly sounding name, but don't say so to its toothy face. OK, first thing's first - "Wobbegong"? You what? Image: Richard Ling Spotted Wobbegong ...
Monstrous Heraldry! 10 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
I played a bit of Crusader Kings II, got interested in all the coats of arms and heraldic doo-dads, learnt a bit about them and then this came out: The official, fancy-dan description of these things...
Spider-tailed Horned Viper 9 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Image: Omid Mozaffari Pseudocerastes urarachnoides A snake with a spider for a tail? Wasn't ONE pair of venomous fangs enough? There was a time, long ago, when pretty much everyone had a snake for a...
Ship-timber Beetle 7 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Image: Michael Whitehead Beetles don't get much weirder than this! Ship-timber Beetles are a mere 37 species in the family Lymexlidae, all about 1 or 2 cm (0.2-0.8 in) long. As the name suggests, t...
