There are over 120 million Christmas Island Crabs on Christmas Island.
That's not too extraordinary if you consider the fact that the crabs usually spend their time scattered throughout the dense forests on Christmas Island.
But once a year, they make a daring trip from the inland forests to the ocean shores to breed.
120 million crabs is much more impressive when you're watching them crawl across the island's highways and houses...
The Blanket Octopus isn't as cuddly as its name might suggest.
Instead of projecting ink into the face of a predator, the blanket octopus will unfurl its massive webbed tentacles and frighten off its pursuer!
Or if that doesn't work, the blanket octopus also likes to carry around the tentacles of the highly venomous Portuguese Man-of-War which it won't hesitate to throw into your face if you get too close!
Here's some beautiful, up-close-and-personal time-lapse photography of fungal growth! It's so freaking beautiful!
These fungi appear to be typical bread molds in the fungal phylum Zygomycota.
Those tall stalks that create the Dr. Seuss-like trees are fruiting bodies and the balls on the tops are the sporangia which house hundreds of tiny spores.
Those spores will eventually be released into the air and will find their way to a tomato or loaf of bread in your kitchen to start a new mold
You're probably breathing in some of those spores right now, actually...
Did you see the fungus mites?! They're like the cattle of the microscopic world of mycelium and hyphae!
Sabethes mosquito is actually from the planet Pandora...
These guys are found in the forests of Central and South America.
Apparently, the furry parts on their legs and their shimmery complexion are sexually selected traits and the males perform complex dances to win over the ladies.
Oh also, they made some major contributions to space science such as making the first landing in the outer solar system, developing the most complex interplanetary probe to date, and determining the composition of structure of Saturn's rings.
