Fantastical Zoology
June 28th, 2010
Did you know their was such a thing as a Goblin Shark? Neither did I, until I was shown this rather unsettling picture. Goblinish indeed! To be fair, this is not the most flattering of photos, if you click here you can watch a short video of the shark in action, and as you can see it is actually quite cute (in a sharky kind of way).
This has got me thinking about which other animals have names borrowed from the Faerie world? I know about Fairy Penguins and Fairy Wrens, Pixie-bob Cats, and that Dragonfly larvae are called Nymphs. Anything else?
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Not forgetting the extremely cutely named ‘Pink Fairy Armadillo’! :D
Dragonflies are “trollsländor” in Swedish, meaning troll/goblin distaffs!