Found this in some interesting facts of wildlife web page, too stunned to see a Floating Omelet out of nowhere.
This is a Fried Egg Jellyfish found in and across the Mediterranean Sea (nearer to Europe)
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Brown bush warbler is so dumb cause literally all bush warblers are brown â https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/339725-Locustella-luteoventris
Firewood-gatherer â https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/11850-Anumbius-annumbi
And my personal favourite, the bokikokiko
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/116765-Acrocephalus-aequinoctialis
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Whirligig Mites (Genus Anystis) is one that made me chuckle
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/158969917
The White-naped Honeyeater too - all but one of the species in itâs genus, Melithreptus (containing 7 species), have white napes.
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personally, I think itâs a little weird that thereâs a genus called ânecrophiliaâ (carrion beetles, so the name makes sense, but yeesh)
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Of all the worldâs vultures, the only one in the Genus Vultur is⊠a condor.
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⊠Which is a large species of vulture?
Iâve mentioned this one in previous threads
The Passenger Pigeon Louse, Columbicola extinctusâŠ
Turns out itâs not extinct⊠whoopsâŠ
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Those arenât even vultures, just distant relatives of Accipitridae.
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I mean, it depends on your definition of âvultureâ and preferred taxon scheme. Even âold world vultureâ is a paraphyletic concept in some taxonomic schemes.
Batman Moth
The Joker
Darth Maul bug
Exasperating Platynota
Confused Woodgrain Moth
New World vultures are a subject of taxonomic debate. Some state they are in fact more related to storks. Old World vultures are classified as accipitridae.
fun fact dracorex hogwartsia actually has three different genus and species names. One name is for the baby dinosaur, another for the juvenile, and a third for the adult.
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i choose death
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Mint Loving Pyrausta Moth and Coffee Loving Pyrausta Moth
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I find it useful to search for (historically) edible plants by searching for âedulisâ is the taxon search, these two arenât plants and seem particularly singled-out:
- Trichonephila edulis - a spider
- Pyxicephalus edulis - a bull frog
Note: I think âedulisâ should be treated with caution. In practice itâs somewhat dubious and tends to mean âbarely edibleâ.
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Concholepas concholepas is a weird muricid marine snail locally called loco in Chile, which means crazy/mad/nuts hahaha this name probably has precolombin roots and used to mean another thing
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Trying to pick up some Spanish for upcoming travel. Recently I learned about Enema pan. Which I guess translates to Bread Enema.
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