What Is This? Answers

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  • NWF Staff
  • May 15, 2015
December/January 2016



A lowland streaked tenrec in Andasibe, Madagascar.

October/November




A flamingo tongue snail off the Caribbean island of Saba.
August/September



A rosy-lipped batfish.


June/July 2015



These expandable pleats of blubber and skin on the underjaw of a Bryde’s whale are called throat grooves.

April/May 2015


Stink bug nymphs in Maharashtra, India.
February/March 2015



A spanish shawl nudibranch off California's Channel Islands.

December/January 2015



A balloonfish.

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