Bizarre Creature of the Day

How to get ahead in life Carcharias taurus is commonly known as the sand tiger shark or the grey nurse shark. These larg...

Myzopoda are a genus of bats commonly known as old-world sucker foot bats. Like the South American sucker foot bats they ha...

Fish with a transparent head Opisthoproctidae are a weird family of fish commonly known as Barreleye fish or Spook fish. This i...

These will never grow up Appendicularia or Larvaceans are small tadpole like, non-vertebrate chordates, meaning they don’t have a spine...

A snake with a mustache  Erpeton tentaculatum is called the tentacled snake because of the two tentacle like structures which look like a...

Is it a cheerleader or a boxer? Lybia edmondsoni is a crab which can either be called the pom pom crab or the boxer crab. The confus...

A frog without water Notaden bendetti can be called the Crucifix toad or the Holy cross frog. It is a smallish frog with a cross like co...

Mucous bubble rafts. Janthina janthina is a snail commonly known as a violet snail or purple snail. These marine snails are in a g...

Yes, it is a fish For some reason I don't understand this family of fish called Antennariidae is referred to in the common tongue ...

Run! They have acquired a taste for blood. Geospiza difficilis is one of Darwin's Galapagos Island finches and it it commonly call...

Bloodless fish Chaenocephalus aceratus is a type of antarctic ice fish, a group that dominates the freezing waters off the coast of Anta...

Cool hair Hemicentetes semispinosus is known as the lowland streaked tenerec. Apart from their bizarre black and yellow hair...

A suspicious horn The Tsintaosaurus is a dinosaur with a hollow crest above its nose. In the flesh the crest probably looked som...

Ants that drink the blood of their own babies Adetomyrma venatrix  is an ant: It is commonly called the Dracula ant because of ...

Look at the pretty lights Myctophidae are a family of deep sea fish known as lantern fish. They are called lanternfish because of...

Friendly blood sucking vampires Description: Desmodontinae is a subfamily of bats known as vampire bats. They are called vampire ...

How to fight with your eyes Description: Diopsidae are a family of flies which are commonly called stalk eyed flies because their eyes ...

Spiders that eat their own web. Description: Eriophora are a genus of spiders known as garden orb weaver spiders. All images in thi...

A fish that sheds its skin in one piece Description: Eurypegasus draconis is commonly known as the Dragon sea moth, the little dragonf...

You know you like nudibranch days Description: It's about time we had another nudibranch, Nembrotha kubaryana . This one has a comm...