Bizarre Creature of the Day

Easy one I have been publishing a lot of lazy posts lately because I am very close to submitting my PhD thesis. Today is no...

Look, don't touch. Plectaster decanus is a seastar commonly known as the mosaic seastar. It is renowned for it bright colo...

An animal that looks like an alien plant Ptilometra australis is a species of sea lily which has no common name that I am aware of. ...

Star wars. Description: Solaster dawsoni is a sea star which is usually referred to as the morning sun star, which is a silly name bec...

Pretty sea urchin Description: Strongylocentrotus purpuratus is known as the purple sea urchin,  probably because it is purple and it i...

This is not a balloon animal. Description: Scotoplanes is a genus of deep sea cucumbers which are commonly known as sea pigs because...

T his looks more like an alien mother ship than an animal to me. Description: Coelopleurus exquisitus is a recently described (2006) s...

A weird looking member of a weird group A strange looking sea cucumber today. Sea Cucumbers belong to the echinoderm phylum, a diverse p...