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.
⌠Which is a large species of vulture?
Iâve mentioned this one in previous threads
The Passenger Pigeon Louse, Columbicola extinctusâŚ
Turns out itâs not extinct⌠whoopsâŚ
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Those arenât even vultures, just distant relatives of Accipitridae.
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
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