Wow! That must have been really cool! And welcome to the forum!
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So cool! Welcome to the boards.
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This large Blue-tongue Skink way out on tidal mudflats. For anyone familiar with Blue-tongue lizards you might find them skulking in a garden but out on a beach? Never
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Don’t we all occasionally need a day at the beach?
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true lol
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I’d have to say it’s this crab exiting low earth orbit.
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Mine was definitely this Northern Anchovy laying by a dusty trailside a mile inland from the ocean. At first I thought maybe a fisherman was dumping bait, or maybe a dog carried it from the beach, but then I started to see more of them scattered across the ground, some laying on top of bushes, and not all of them were whole: some were parts of fish mashed together in slimy clumps. I could not stop thinking about how they got there…. until I saw this news article four days later: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/raining-fish-in-san-francisco-17272717.php Yep: pelican barf!
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That photo is iconic. I don’t know of what, but…. so good!
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The start of a David Lynch movie reboot for sure…
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Reminds me of the famous “Kentucky Meat Shower” which may or may not have been vulture vomit.
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It did once 
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Have a few ones I find weird, others may not xD I’m not sure what weird is at this point since with my fave fungi and inverts they can be de facto weird as is.
Weird by virtue of location - my quick ant snaps turned out to be a species not really found that side of south America at all. Also one I reference when guiding as to why iNaturalist can be useful for finding anomalies.
Weird by virtue of parasitic fungi being cool and weird - came across it in my very old photos this year and realised it was cool enough I should record it. This tarantula Cordyceps also that I extracted from well under a boulder (I was searching for spiders and fungi, so win)
This caterpillar was so reminiscent of a snowflake it is probably the most weirdly beautiful invert I’ve seen to date and I stared at it till my phone died.
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On our 2nd boat tour of the St. John’s river in Florida we encounter this Snowy Egret surfing on the back of a Manatee. The Egret was eating various insects stirred up by the Manatee as it grazed on the vegetation. Super fun to watch.
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I’m now instantly googling “Kentucky Meat Shower” 
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Fly larvae are always weird (1, 2) but I think this macroscopic colonial ciliate might be the weirdest thing I’ve found! Took me quite a lot of looking up to figure out what it was!
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I second that!! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330019922
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Here’s my tray of drain maggots (and a pupa), much bigger than adult Clogmiae. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/328455955
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Probably my weirdest was not photo’d and is not on iNat. It was an oddly shaped piece of bone I found half-buried in the sandy shore of a small stream in New Mexico. I couldn’t figure out what it had come from until I turned over the bone in my hand and realized it was part of a human skull staring back at me.
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@ocean_beach_goth, I remember some of my elder downhome relatives telling me about that when I was a kid. At the time, I thought that they were just pulling my leg!
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This Cape Terrapin basking on top of a dead mammal. I could never figure out what the mammal was…
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