“Siesta” by Istvan Lichner:

http://iheartphotograph.blogspot.com/2011/10/oldest-living-things-in-world.html

So: flying dragons are real! Just tiny. Draco volans, native to the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia and around 20 cm long, glides with the wings attached to its long, movable ribs — so it has wings and four limbs. How far it can glide ranges from 8 metres to a wind-assisted 50 metres depending on which website you read. It can’t sustain powered flight, but give evolution some time and who knows? D. volans in flight.

Nature is awesome…

Transparent sea cucumber Enypniastes, via oceanleadership.org

Eny swimming

And while I’m doing pretties, a dreamlike flower with hummingbirds by Martin Johnson Heade.

And for the cute, a sea pig…

And for the weird… as Stu said, these people obviously aren’t marine biologists.

The Ningyo-do Bunko Database is an online collection of over 5000 watercolour paintings by Kawasaki Kyosen (1877-1942) of antique Japanese toys and folk craft items. (Via Pink Tentacle, which naturally enough focuses on octopus-themed works.) Click on kyosen gangucho and gangucho to go to the indexes. Each link in the indexes takes you to a book’s worth of images.

A few pictures from the collection:

Also from Pink Tentacle, tangible holograms using focused ultrasonic waves, and translucent CG flowers by illustrator Macoto Murayama. Murayama’s translucent images highlight the geometrical structure in the beauty of flowers.

And while I’m linking, from the BBC, do seals navigate by the stars?