![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/7d3a3dac096f8803fc0b40bf5f8a717e/b721efc205d88c05bc0b84c1_rw_600.gif?h=ca810eff0bca3715b0d19f031c52d9dd)
The next exhibit in the Aquarium is a disagreeable creature with the visage of a particularly lumpy stone and a cavernous mouth to match.
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/7d3a3dac096f8803fc0b40bf5f8a717e/5dcaacd3c9e6eaf3b0839047_rw_600.gif?h=62ade52e60a48f6321778792d03ef3e7)
These strange yet elegant creatures form the next display in the Aquarium. They dance among their coral cohabitants, prehensile tails curling all the while.
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/7d3a3dac096f8803fc0b40bf5f8a717e/2bf2ce99aa8ad70cb513ce53_rw_1200.gif?h=be300292bac329d1b1312999db0767da)
This next exhibit is a creature that time forgot, a living relic that survives largely unchanged through millennia. Its continued existence shocked the world. It’s right at home then, among the many strange beings in the Aquarium.
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/7d3a3dac096f8803fc0b40bf5f8a717e/a83d5fb209c6e10d484391fd_rw_600.gif?h=5313464fb662d704166a6ab2165ffe54)
The Aquarium is not only home to a succession of increasingly bizarre and menacing aquafauna, but also plays host to the likes of this flamboyant specimen. Well, I suppose it is still bizarre, crushing up food with its birdlike beak.
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/7d3a3dac096f8803fc0b40bf5f8a717e/87e21642b4da6394715ed1f7_rw_1200.gif?h=9369e0ff974a6c824adc1057bd1fda9a)
This elongated monster is a primitive freshwater dweller. Its lengthy mouth is lined with needle like teeth. It hangs, patiently awaiting prey, behind the glass in the Aquarium.
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/7d3a3dac096f8803fc0b40bf5f8a717e/da84c02f6f2d07ec705af76b_rw_600.gif?h=b06eae2a667a3c8771f919201f269b6c)
This specimen is unusual not only in its disk-like proportions and awkwardly protruding fins. Unique among its brethren in the Aquarium, the blood circulating around this rotund body is warm.
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/7d3a3dac096f8803fc0b40bf5f8a717e/72bb09e28bd4d391d408e846_rw_1200.gif?h=40c9b7f8db3b3fd0faa793f250959ca7)
Dancing shadows are cast on the Aquarium walls as we approach the next exhibit. These foreboding specimens flock to the carcass of a recently deceased fish. Serpentine in appearance, they writhe effortlessly among the innards, tying themselves in knots to gain better purchase on that which makes their meal.