As I love zoology and paleontology (okay: animals, extinct and otherwise), I feel the need to brag about/display a couple of costumes I find clever.
1) My friend Ann‘s daughter Aidan insisted on dressing as a piranha.
2) And last year, my fiance dressed as opabinia, a five-eyed vacuum-mouthed creature that was found in the Burgess Shale.
That paper pinned to his chest is a drawing of an opabinia, so people can figure out what he is. Here’s a version:
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*For the record, I have no objection to sex-ay costumes, though I wish they weren’t de rigeur for girls. I just like weird animal costumes better. Many next year I should get Mike to be a sex-ay opabinia?
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Opabinia costume = epic win!
Maybe I should try to be Anomalocaris sometime.
I’m confused… what could be sexier than an opabinia?
Does the piranha have a red belly?
Oh, the expression on Opabinia’s face. Makes me wish I had kept my ctenophore costume, though that would be easy enough to replicate.