Desert anemones

slowly crawling over the grit and sand on their multiple legs, the creatures undulate the tendrils of their sea-anemone-like crowns searching for small insects in the air. indeed one tiny fly suddenly is caught and entangled by a tendril and is quickly digested.

An ultra-realistic macro photograph of an extraordinary cluster of living cactus-spider-cat-hybrids crawling naturally over pale desert sand. Each compact bluish-green individual is softly ribbed and covered with smooth waxy arachnoid skin displaying subtle gradients of icy turquoise, pale jade, warm ...