Friends of Weird Life

We're sick and tired of pandas and puppies and eagles and maple trees hogging the spotlight. What about the squishy and slimy and frankly gross lifeforms? Who is going to speak for them?

Join the Friends of Weird Life in our quest to feature the forsaken taxa that share the planet with us. If you have information on them, would like to nominate one for inclusion in the Weird Life collection, or would like to participate in a podcast to discuss them, leave us a message on the newsfeed below.

Avatar photo of Euperipatoides rowelli by Andras Keszei care of Flickr.

The Newsfeed for this EOL Community gathers updates associated with the items belonging to its Managed Collections, including activities of its members and comments from other EOL users.

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Deniz Martinez marked the common name "fishes" in an unknown language from "Myxini" as untrusted.

20 days ago
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Deniz Martinez marked the common name "Fish" in an unknown language from "Myxini" as untrusted.

20 days ago
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Deniz Martinez added the English common name "Hagfish" to "Myxini".

20 days ago
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Katja Schulz moved the classifications by FishWisePro resource from Glaucus to Trachinotus.

about 1 month ago
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Sam Owens joined the community "Friends of Weird Life".

2 months ago
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C. Michael Hogan added the English common name "Saltwort" to "Salsola".

3 months ago
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C. Michael Hogan marked the classification from "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: May 2012" as preferred for "Salsola".

3 months ago
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Cyndy Parr commented on "Porifera":

@RASHMI BHAT: Sorry, we didn't see your question earlier! We have three common names for this species, which you can see if you click on "Names" and then "Common names" http://eol.org/pages/338183/names/common_names The English one is Giant Barrel Sponge.

3 months ago
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Hans-Martin Braun added the English common name "Velella" to "Velella velella (Linnaeus, 1758)".

4 months ago
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Hans-Martin Braun added the English common name "sea raft" to "Velella velella (Linnaeus, 1758)".

4 months ago
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C. Michael Hogan marked the classification from "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: May 2012" as preferred for "Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L.".

4 months ago
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C. Michael Hogan marked the classification from "Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)" as preferred for "Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. f.".

6 months ago
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Michael Wunderli added the German common name "Winterharte Passionsblume, Fleischfarbene Passionsblume" to "Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. f.".

6 months ago
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Michael Wunderli added the German common name "Welwitschie" to "Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. f.".

6 months ago
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WonderDookie commented on "Onychophora":

Shouldn't the IUCN status be "Vulnerable"? They declared it as vulnerable in the IUCN invertebrate red book (Wells et al. 1983).

7 months ago
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Katja Schulz moved the classifications by IUCN Red List, IUCN Red List, Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Monthly ARKive text import , Monthly ARKive text import , IUCN Red List, and IUCN Red List from Onychophora to Onychophora.

7 months ago
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Leo Shapiro added the English common name "salps" to "Thaliacea".

7 months ago
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Leo Shapiro marked the common name "pelagic tunicates" in an unknown language from "Thaliacea" as trusted.

7 months ago
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Michael Wunderli added the German common name "Dumbe Octopus" to "Grimpoteuthis".

8 months ago
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Jeremy Rice commented on "Onychophora":

This move is not allowed; it would affect other hierarchies.

8 months ago • edited: 8 months ago
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