Similar to Microglossum viride, but I am told it is an undescribed species.

@sigridjakob and @malacothrix have specimens for sequencing

Scale photo from my friend @bwelko. After I found the first one, we cleared out some leaves and found many more.

Second and third photos are zooming out from the first. Found on a small piece of bark in a mixed forest.

Photograph taken with a 10x microscope objective adapted to my camera, focus stack of 140 images.

This deep water sea star was found in the gut of a rockfish! Observation by Eric Austin Yee, who was cleaning a boat belonging to J&M Sportfishing. This species is found 150-1000’ deep according to Smithsonian echinoderm researcher Chris Mah, who stayed up late helping me with this ID. 🙏 Unfortunately the sea star was thrown overboard in 100’ water after its photo op.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7840855

And yes, it looks like a Cheez-it.

On Pertusaria sp. (TBD) on scrub oak bark. Appearing black but actually dark brown overall. Capitulum 0.25mm wide by 0.18mm tall. All parts K+? (second to last photo). Some violet reddish color but not intense, maybe pigments bleeding? [EDIT: confirmed K- (last photo)]. Stalk disintegrates in K (photos). Stalk prosoplectenchymatous, 0.29mm. Ascus cylindrical, ~39-45x6µm. Spores dark brown, subglobose, ~6.5x5.5µm.

Echinodontium ballouii wasn't seen for 100 years until Larry Millman found it in an Atlantic White Cedar swamp. Larry took me to the site, (which I can't say where it is) and we found about a dozen of these again 4 years after the first visit.

Chirping Giant Pill Millipede (Sphaeromimus musicus) is restricted to semi-humid habitats, such as gallery forests, of southwestern Madagascar. It can exhibit an unique black pattern on orange-reddish basic colour.

See: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263815190_Integrative_revision_of_the_giant_pill-millipede_genus_Sphaeromimus_from_Madagascar_with_the_description_of_seven_new_species_Diplopoda_Sphaerotheriida_Arthrosphaeridae

Berenty Private Reserve, Amboasary, Madagascar.

Swarming behaviour of the world’s largest giant pill-millipede species.
Probably juvenile individuals.
Geotagging only approximative.
Identification after : Wesener, Schütte; Madagascar Conservation and Development, Vol.5(2), Dec 2010.
This species seems to be the only species in the order Sphaerotheriida with swarming behaviour.

Madagascar, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, October 28, 2005
photo: lotlhmoq

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Female, broadcast spawning; several males releasing sperm nearby (separate observation). I am especially curious why some, but not all, of the eggs appear to be stuck together with a halo of tiny spines on them; if you know the answer, please let me know!

This is earlier in the year than expected: "In California, spawning occurs from March to May" (O’Clair and O’Clair 1998, Cowles 2005).