Specimens of giant amphipods were collected in the Kermadec Trench and reported in early. Too soon to say yet whether the new specimens are also Alicella gigantea but I've added the species here anyway (nominated by Ely Wallis.).

A.K.A. Velvet worms, just because of their texture. (nominated by Ely Wallis)

Just because they’re everywhere. And because you can put them through a sieve and they will just reform. Or is that just a myth? (nominated by Ely Wallis)

Because they’re often described as ‘microscopic plankton’ but they’re not always tiny. (nominated by Ely Wallis)

(nominated by Ely Wallis)

They live on the mouthparts of Norway lobsters and belong to a phylum only erected in 2010. Have a look here for a report. (nominated by Ely Wallis)

Giant cuttlefish with amazing colour displays and mating behaviour. Possibly a bit too charismatic for this list! (nominated by Ely Wallis)

A.K.A. Tumbleweed (nominated by Tim Entwisle )

(nominated by Tim Entwisle)

Witches Butter (no idea why) (nominated by Tim Entwisle)

(nominated by Tim Entwisle)

Almost a DNA spiral inside a cell (nominated by Tim Entwisle)

That thing that burns your skin if you sit under it and it drips on you on the beach in the Caribbean (nominated by Sandy Knapp)

Source of ricin and hated vitamins of Victorian children (nominated by Sandy Knapp)

A slimy green mat that is actually a flowering plant on Amazonian rocks (nominated by Sandy Knapp)

A plant with nasty spines that you wouldn't want to fall on (nominated by Sandy Knapp)

Worm's got legs! Worm's got legs! (nominated by Jim Croft)

Carbon sequestration FTW! (nominated by Jim Croft)

Spheres within spheres (nominated by Jim Croft)

Two for the price of one (nominated by Jim Croft)

Micropillboxes - who would have thunk it? (nominated by Jim Croft)

Who can resist creeping green slime? (nominated by Jim Croft)

Animal, vegetable or mineral? (nominated by Jim Croft)

(nominated by Jim Croft)

Because you can't make this stuff up (nominated by Jim Croft)

Because when you see a full size one in the forest for the first time, you don't believe it (nominated by Jim Croft)

When it gets to hot they get out of the kitchen (nominated by Jim Croft)
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A single algal cell almost dripping oil (nominated by Tim Entwisle)

(nominated by Ely Wallis)

(nominated by Ely Wallis)

(nominated by Erica McAlister @flygirlNHM)

Ostracods that look like giant swimming rice bubbles. Along with their friends Bathynomus - enormous ostracods that wouldn’t look out of place in Dr Who. (nominated by Ely Wallis)

Their unusual feeding habits and slime-producing capabilities have led members of the scientific and popular media to dub the hagfish as the most "disgusting" of all sea creatures. (nominated by Bob Corrigan)

What sort of slug has arms and legs, is bright blue, lives upside down on the surface of the ocean, collects stinging cells and eats Portuguese-Man-of-War for breakfast? (Nominated by Jim Croft).

A pineapple trying to be a cross between a moss and a lichen. (Nominated by Jim Croft)

A fungus pretending to be a starfish. Sure to gross out someone (Nominated by Jim Croft)

What sort of plant lives underground, has no leaves, no chlorophyll and looks like a fungus wannabe? Weird. (Nominated by Jim Croft)

BIG. Smelly. No leaves. No stem. No roots. Likes flies. Weird. (Nominated by Jim Croft)

A jellyfish yacht. Who invents this stuff? (Nominated by Jim Croft)

Two leaves, no stem, no roots, all on the head of a pin. A bunch of flowers does not get any smaller than this. (Nominated by Jim Croft)

Or any of the other fascinating slime molds where a bunch of unicells get together to act like a superorganism and solve mazes and such, maybe Physarum polycephalum would be better (our page needs lots of work) (Nominated by Cyndy Parr)

Comes from an enigmatic tweet from @ceriops "sometimes scientists do odd stuff - see this "Age, Experience and Sex – Do Female Bulb Mites Prefer Young Mating Partners?" bulb mites?" - definitely weird life.... (nominated by Sandy Knapp)

The cactus that leaps out at you... and sticks on. (nominated by Sandy Knapp)

Too big to fail! (nominated by Sandy Knapp)

Jim Croft suggested trilobites, and these were the closest things that came to mind (nominated by Ely Wallis)

Couldn't make it up in your wildest dreams - Imaginary Botany (shades of Jorge Luis Borges) (nominated by Sandy Knapp)

(nominated by Ely Wallis)

Because parasites need our love too. (nominated by Ely Wallis)

Tube worms that live around deep sea hydrothermal vents. (nominated by Ely Wallis)