Mary's Monday Metazoan: Rainbows in the deep

Wow, that's gorgeous Butterfly of the deep. I haven't seen those colors even in clear quartz fractures. It looks like you could... should!... make jewelry out of it.

Oooooh...pretty! Usually you put in the name, PZ, so what is this one? I like to go read about most of the critters you post pics of.

That's obviously an angel spreading its wings at the top, the holy green and red lights of the glory of the Lord shining round about it, and at the bottom is a donkey, a manger, and a very tired-out and sleeping Mary.

See, even jellyfish celebrate the true meaning of Christmas!

I know it's a common observation but: Alien life? Look no further than the oceans! Living exemplars of J.B. Haldane's "queerer than we can suppose".

CanonicalKoi - click the image.

I can't decide if it's shibby, sniny or groovy.

Oh please, as if that's real - PZ has obviously lifted it straight from Avatar!

Scientists plan to research more of the unexplored Arctic waters before warming and ice melt drastically transforms the ocean environment...

Nice.

I'm just not as enthusiastic about Mondays as I am about Fridays, but I suppose I shouldn't blame Mary.

Thanks, Sili. If I can't figure out an image link, more coffee is obviously called-for.

CanonicalKoi @ 2,

If you right click the image and check the properties...

Sminthea arctica

Shiny!

Like an opal, but not as enduring, and much more likely to sting.

Wouldn't make very nice jewelry for anyone with skin.

Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p

sniny!

It is a ctenephore and stingless. You see a lot of them on the east cost of USA marooned glowing on the sand. The are strongly bioluminescent.

BS

Oops, cancel that It is not a ctenephore. Mea culpa.

BS

It's like a living soap bubble.

Great, now I read the title and now I have Dio stuck in my head...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYlDltwm-JY

Once again we see protoplasm enhanced by physics. :)