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The little sea urchin on top is quite unusual. It was discovered by a research vessel near New Caledonia at a depth of 1000 ft.

148 responses to “Strange Creatures”

  1. I feel the urge of biting it and then squash it with my foot.

  2. looks like an alien
    maybe it came from http://www.beinspace.com

  3. looks like a mandlebrot fractal.

  4. That’s amazing. Nature never ceases to amaze me.

  5. la naturaleza es a veces tan colina, es parecido a lo que veo con lsd.

  6. Holy smoke! thats wicked.

  7. A wonderful Photo … Great!

    Greetings
    Lance

  8. got a link to this in an email from a friend. he thinks it looks like the Mandelbrot set fractal too!
    I agree.
    Nature is full of maths 🙂

  9. Absolutely phenomenal!!!! Gorgeous…saw this on digg.com by the way!!

  10. Looks like a Katamari from Katamari Damacy. The King of All Cosmos will be pleased.

  11. wow. I just got back from Half Moon Bay, and discover this blog storm. 200K views in 24 hours.

    jorgempf: yes, it is mine.

    thanks y’all. Yes, it is a beautiful computation. Here’s another one from HMB:

    A Beautiful Computation

    

It seems that we like the emergent constructs, fractal and nested, that arise from iterative computations (e.g., evolution, organic growth…). 



    In other words, we appreciate the accumulated computational complexity produced by evolutionary dynamics (genetic and memetic).

  12. I invite you to add this great 200+ faves picture to 200+ Faves

  13. Nice image… It’s on Digg.com, btw…

  14. i got it 4 months ago. ?!? i am confused by your second answer now. am i missing something?

  15. oops – I forgot that I already answered your question. Both answers are the same… =)

  16. no problem, it hapens. 🙂

  17. did you take your pills today?

    |-)

  18. AmAzing!

    Seen in my recent comments. (?)

  19. below what said a year ago: since then asked prof/ at tje enviro sciences college at s.u.n.y. if need more info email me at cybernetiks@yahoo.co
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    now….really…..

    it could also be a zanny- Ukrainian ‘easter-egg’

    comments///////over

  20. Awsome shot. I love the pattern on it

  21. Very beautiful, love the colors.

  22. Hi, I’m an admin for a group called uniqueeeee, and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.
    diamond
    uniqueeeeee creatures!

  23. thats so cool…
    I never seen this before

  24. Wow! Is this a rare find?

    Hi, I’m an admin for a group called One Hundred Thousand Club (100,000 Photostream Views), and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.

  25. Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Nature uses just a few shapes…/ A Natureza usa poucas formas, and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.

  26. utterly amazing Brian Shaler's AutoSmile for Flickr

    saw this on wiki while searching on google.

    thanks for sharing.

  27. Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Different., and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.

  28. Love this real much…Thanks for sharing!!

  29. woooww so good picture 🙂

    kpss
    kpss

    kpss

  30. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Nature is f******* awesome

  31. Absolutely fantastic find and even greater photo! 🙂

  32. It’s amazing how beautiful the skeletons are, colors and texture.

  33. So where does the tea come out? 🙂

  34. Oich it is weird and seems great!! wonderful!
    PTC

    Bux
    PTC

  35. thank you !good picture

  36. They could both easily be Faberge creations. But nature is always the most creative!


    Seen in the group"Views 40 000" (?)

  37. i bet the nipples squirt water as self defense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  38. yep…. amazing in all ways

  39. thanks y’all – wow – 500 faves.

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