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Argema mittrei

Also known as comet moth lives in Madagascar.

The male has a wingspan of 20 centimeters and a tail span of 15 centimeters. Which makes it one of the world’s largest silk moths.

The female lays 120-170 eggs.

They unfortunately live only between 6-8 days.

When the moths emerge from their cocoons as adults they no longer feed on plants to survive. They do have a mouth and a gut but neither function.

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Byasa polyeuctes

Also known als the common windmill or windmill butterfly. It is very common in India and belongs to the windmill genus “Byasa”

These butterflies prefer forests and woods as habitat.

The length is between 1.1 and 1.4 cm

Cyerce elegans

Mostly lives in with Halimeda kanaloana and Halimeda idea algae covered habitats

She is found in depths of 10-18 meters

Ctenoides scaber

Is also known as flame scallop. It is a species of saltwater clam and belong to the family of Limidae.

Even though you might think it of their name, they aren’t related to true scallops.

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They are herbivores and only eat phytoplankton.

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Panthera Tigris

Tiger

Tigers are orange in color because their main prey, deer, see them as green. That is because deer can only see blue and green light, which makes them colorblind to red.

Clione limacina

Sea Angel

Did you know that 2 Pokémon’s were based on the clione? (Manaphy and Phione)

They’re found from the surface to greater than 500m (1.600 feet) depth.

It was first described by Friderich Martens in 1676. It was the first gymnosomatous (without a shell) to be described.

They feed on the sea butterflies of the genus Limacina. They live around 2 or more years.

They breed during spring and summer and the eggs are about 0.12mm (4.7 thou)

Clione are usually found in the Arctic Ocean or cold regions of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Smaug giganteus

Isn’t it funny that they named it after Smaug, the DRAGON?!

It is named after the dragon Smaug from the fantasy book “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien.

The second part of its name „gigangeus“ is Latin meaning gigantic, because it is the largest member of the Cordylidae family.

They grown up to 35-40cm (15 inches).

Unlike other girdled lizards they don’t live on rocks, they make shallow burrows in open grassland. They live in South Africa.

Pseudobiceros hancockanus

Hancock's Flatworm

They are a species of hermaphroditic marine flatworm in the family Pseudocerotidae.

It can grow up to 14cm (5.5 inches) in length.

Pseudobiceros hancockanus lives in warm seas or coral reefs (seen in Indonesia, Fiji and Kenya)

Scientists suspect it eats small invertebrates that live in sponges.

Langaha Madagascariensis

Malagasy leaf-nosed snake

The special thing about this snake is its nose.

It has a strange nasal appendage that is pointy in males and leaf-like in females. The males are dorsally brown and ventrally yellow while the females are mottled grey.

They are usually found in Madagascar and are poisonous (not dangerous for humans). They lay in trees with their snouts hanging down from the branches, resembling vines.

To be more plant like they swing with the wind. They can grow up to 1m (3 feet) in length.

They mainly eat frogs and lizards are oviparous with clutch sizes ranging from 5 to 11 eggs.

The superhero of the sea

Tremoctopus violaceus

Also known as Blanket octopus

There wasn’t a single male Blanket octopus discovered until 2002 because scientists looked at the wrong sized animals. Female Blank octopuses can be up to 40.000 times more massive than males which makes them the largest gender discrepancy in the whole animal kingdom.

The female blanket octopus has a long, fleshy ‘cape’ enclosing its tentacles. The cape makes the octopus appear larger to potential predators.

It’s also called the superhero of the sea because of its large cape.

They are found in subtropical and tropical oceans.

Elaeomyxa Cerifera

Was first identified in 1942. They are slime mold sporophores that can split open to release spores that sparkle like a disco ball.

It looks like a galaxy

But these aren’t mushrooms!

They aren’t even fungi.. Plasmodial slime molds are in Amoebozoa with organisms like Amoeba proteus.

While fungi belong to the genetic supergroup Obazoa with the animals, a Komodo dragon is more closely related to fungi than a slime is.

They wary in size from less than a millimeter to several centimeters.

Costasiella kuroshimae

Is also known as “leaf sheep” is a kind of sea slug who feeds on algae.

What makes it so interesting is that it is the only organism in the entire world that is not a plant yet is able to photosynthesize.

Costasiella Kuroshimae are shell-less and range in size from 5mm to 1cm (1/4 to 3/8 inch) in length.

They were first discovered in 1993 off the coast of the Japanese island Kuroshima.

The interesting fact about these slugs is that they are capable of a physiological process called kleptoplasty, in which they retain the chloroplasts from the algae they feed on.

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