Houston, we have splash-down.

Later that night, the penguin made a “missed connections” post on Craigslist.

Matamata is happy to see you – but hard to see herself.

Frogs have bright colours to warn predators that they are poisonous.

Frogs have mottled patterns to help them blend in with the forest floor.

Frogs ain’t so bright sometimes.

TFW you’re close to the abyss but know that withdrawing into your shell would make the fall more likely.

I swear, it’s like Spider-man gets a different costume in every movie.

This is an electric white lobster. Why is it called that? Because it’s white, and it’s related to the electric blue crayfish. Neither have electric powers. Instead, the colour is named after lightning and, apparently, was popular in the 1890’s where they distinguished between deep electric blue (aka French electric blue), iridescent electric blue, medium electric blue, and dark electric blue.

Wikipedia takes care to note that iridescent electric blue is only metaphorically electric and metaphorically iridescent. However, odds are that you are looking at this on some sort of computer screen, so it is metaphorically iridescent, but all of these blues are actually electric.

That also means that, even though there is no such thing as electric white, the white you are seeing in the electric white lobster above is, actually, electric. It’s other name is the White Ghost Lobster. It, however, neither a lobster nor a ghost.

This is a crayfish.

According to Damian Moran, Rowan Softley and Eric J. Warrant, the blind cavefish lost its eyes because the visual part of the brain consumes 15% of all the energy used by the fish. So it’s less that they lost their eyes because they didn’t need them in the dark. It’s that, in the dark, there’s less total energy to go around so energy-expensive systems are selected against, as the most efficient fish win the energy game.

Read more at http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/8/e1500363.full