Cool Organisms
Interesting looking organisms from around the world, including fungi, plants, insects, arachnids, and gastropods. Blue slugs? Dancing spiders? Glowing mushrooms? Technicolor giant land planaria? Look no further.
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. These marine snails have the coolest operculum (the little "door" that closes the mouth of the shell). Unlike the glossy, colorful "cat's eyes" made by other species of turban shells, the operculua of wavy turban shells are granulated and patterned with fine curves of stipples and dots. They remind me of giant diatoms. These interesting opercula are sometimes used to make jewelry.
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- Life …
- Eukaryota
- Opisthokonta
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. The males of this species may be the world's most colorful lizards. The females are more demur. -
. You don't have to be cute to be cool, nor do you have to be tropical. The Death's-head Hawkmoth is a creepily ornamented moth famous for the skull-like pattern on its thorax. This species is found in Europe, though it has similar-looking cousins in Asia.
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. The Godzilla of the ostracod world-- they're the size of marbles!
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. The crab spiders, jewel spiders, spiny spiders, or kite spiders (genus Gasteracantha) are a fascinating and lovely group of mostly tropical arachnids, but the "long-horned" species, such as G. dalyi, are particularly striking.
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