Cutie pies, sans vertebrae.
From wikipedia
'...Sea apple is the common name for the colorful and somewhat round sea cucumbers of the genus Pseudocolochirus, found in Indo-Pacific waters.[2][3] Sea apples are filter feeders with tentacles, ovate bodies, and tube-like feet. As with many other holothurians, they can release their internal organs or a toxin into the water when stressed...'
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'A banana slug courtship display.'
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If you're particularly partial to Banana Slugs there's this group on flickr, for all your banana slug needs
'Mag. x 4, 52 picture stack, photographed using a microscope objective attached directly to a DSLR'
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'Slowly I'm running out of seamonster [sic] pictures... anyway, she's beautiful, isn't she?'
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'Another Green-Bottle Blowfly. There are a few of these on just about every flower bud in my back yard now. They are all landing on these particular buds to die. Its very strange because there are so many. Maybe this is just something they do this time of the year?'
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'....OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Quite a bit going on here
A Flower Crab Spider that has an unlimited supply of flies feeding on a fly
Is that something that was feeding on the the fly before the spider got there?
What you cant see is the tired broken down camera man making the Photo. Told you. Lots going on...'
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'.....This is a crop of a Female Picture Wing Fly. If you look at the abdomen you can see the cone shaped ovipositor she uses to lay her eggs in Thistles. Ive been trying for the last week or so to get a good picture of one of these. I cant seem to capture their original eye color. Ive been trying different lenses and white balances to no avail. Also the detail appears to be odd looking. Im going to try the Nikon D70 tomorrow and see what happens...'
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‘A spiny squat lobster photographed on Seal Reef in Loch Fyne. The air temperature hovered around 0C and it was a pleasure to get underwater in the loch, where the temperature was a balmy 12C.’
Argyll and Bute, UK
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Source with 4 more photos: Tiger moth with clown face | Project Noah
Spotted by Andreas Kay
Imbabura, Ecuador
Spotted on Feb 14, 2013
Source: Giant phantom jelly • MBARI
Giant phantom jelly (Stygiomedusa gigantea)
Channel Islands, Southern California • 1,508 meters (4,948 feet) • Image: © 2018 MBARI
Video from 2015: Ghostly critters from the deep sea: Stygiomedusa gigantea - YouTube
Via (with another video); @SchmidtOcean Twitter - Nitter link
Seen on Absolutely astonishing deep sea giant just filmed by scientists - lemm.ee
