Organisms
pharyngula | October 31, 2014The Monterey Bay Aquarium is offering a selection of Halloween e-cards…and you can guess which one I'm sending to you!
pharyngula | October 27, 2014It's the Bone Eating Snot Flower Worm.
As a bonus, it's also one of those species where the large adult forms are all females, and the males have been reduced to a tiny bag of sperm attached for life to a Bone Eating Snot Flower Worm.
pharyngula | October 20, 2014Browse this list of images…all of them of real, live, genuine zombified organisms. Just in time for Halloween!
pharyngula | October 17, 2014I just learned that the Blogess has "giant squid phobia".
Several people are aware of my severe giant squid phobia and lovingly (?) sent me this video of a giant squid attacking a Greenpeace submarine, and that’s unsettling enough, but WHY IS THERE ANOTHER SQUID BEHIND IT SPITTING OUT FIRE? Is that a real thing? Because I was scared enough without adding: “Oh, and also they can shoot a blinding inferno out of their butts like a tentacled, aquatic bonfire.” It’s like half giant squid and half underwater maritime flame-thrower, and that’s not natural and is a sign that all giant squid are…
pharyngula | October 13, 2014I would be irresistible to the ladies if only I had bright blue inflatable throat sacs, like Hoplobatrachus tigerinus.
Photorator
pharyngula | October 3, 2014 MBARI
Watch the fishing lure action right here -- also pay attention to the closeups that reveal how transparent Grimalditeuthis is.
It would be so cool to be able to see our own guts like that.
pharyngula | October 1, 2014Allspice, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, and cinnamon -- they don't actually look all that appetizing.
pharyngula | September 29, 2014It's the Kinabalu Giant Red Leech of Borneo! This foot long beast isn't satisfied with merely sucking blood, it swallows its prey whole.
pharyngula | September 12, 2014Prepare yourself.
The Te Papa Museum of New Zealand has a new specimen locked in a vault: a colossal squid that will be thawed and dissected (they think!) on streaming video.
Here is the necromantic chamber.
Wait! No protective runes, no array of emergency thuribles, no pentagram, no mysterious idols of jade and obsidian? This may not go well.
pharyngula | September 8, 2014You've just got to love the word "thrip".
David Jones
Thrips of California
