Some super freaky forms of nature over at National Geographic (Photography by David Doubilet). You can download these as Desktop wallpapers:
Nudibranchs crawl through life as slick and naked as a newborn. Snail kin whose ancestors shrugged off the shell millions of years ago, they are just skin, muscle, and organs sliding on trails of slime across ocean floors and coral heads the world over.
National Geographic (Thanks Becky)
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What amazing colours!
Awww, cute. They look like novelty socks crossed with a savoy cabbage!
Those can’t be the actual colours, right? Right?! They’re so… nu-rave.
Q: What did the Nudibranchs say when they took a ride on the sea cucumbers back?
A: “Wheeeeeeee!!”
I saw these in an issue of National Geographic magazine last. The most fascinating thing about the series of images is how they were photographed. They set up a little photography stage on the sea-bed, it was very surreal
Not sure if an image of that is online.
And ofcourse they come with toxic stuff I may hope? For sending out to not so nice business colleagues or competitors in science or whatever …. or whole Holland so that I will winn all loteries and such … and have a nice very big garden to call my own (bigger than now .. 1200 m2 is nice but does not suit royalty ofcourse … ahum ..).
Ohhh I Love their shape and colours…what a beauty´s…
quite funky but i’ll quick to derren on my desktop.
I have no idea how I first found these but I saw them a while ago and thought at first glance they were plasticine
Placticine cows?
They’re some funky lil snails
Maybe they’re just plain ol’ garden snails on their way to a rave. 90’s style.
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