<![CDATA[The Gaboon Viper, Pangolin, and bioluminescence]]>The Gaboon Viper is a lovely snake with incredible rectangular bands running down its spine:
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(How often do you see rectangles in nature?) They’re super deadly, of course, so I don’t recommend petting one.

The Pangolin (native to Asia and Africa) is clearly a miniature dragon:

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Somebody please domesticate these so I can have a pet dragon.

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I have read that bioluminescence is the most common form of communication on Earth.

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It certainly is lovely! (That little guy’s a bioluminescent bobtail squid.)

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That last one is a mushroom, not a jellyfish.

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Drawings by Ernst Haeckel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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