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This lobster is really cool looking - the blue color is amazing. Click on the pictures to blow them up: "Blue Lobster Surfaces In Local Lobster Trap" by John Blunda on wcsh6.com Apparently, the blue color comes from a genetic defect that affects 1 in 2 million lobsters.
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"Growing Antarctic Crack Primes Delaware-Sized Iceberg" by Tom James on scientificamerican.com
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The blobfish is *not* an ugly creature; in its native habitat, it's actually a formidable-looking specimen - it is we who have made it "ugly" by taking it away from its high-pressure home, and allowing its gelatinous body to swell up and expand into the "blob" that we call it - it you took ourselves, and put us in a helium environment, we, too, would look like what the police call a "floater" - in other words, we'd be pretty damned ugly. I've always been fascinated by deep-sea marine life, wondering how it can possibly survive, even thrive, at such extreme levels of pressure, cold, and darkness - witness the glorious ventworm which is our unofficial mascot. *Why* is it our unofficial mascot? I have no idea. Now, the Tasmanian Devil, that is *ugly*, both in cartoons: and in real life. Fierce little bugger, this one is: And if you think it's cute, try petting it.
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