Whatever we can come up with in the way of zombies, ghosties, goulies, rattling skeletons, and general undeadness, nature has a way of topping this with some pretty weird and nightmarish creativity of her own.
Because you can divide the kingdom of all living things into subdivisions, depending on the characteristics of different types of living things, that means Planet Science can make them into masks that have the duel use of giving unsuspecting aunties and granddads a fright at Halloween, and at the same time show you a bit about the various differences and what they are called.
Artist and animator Ben Courtney has made five masks to print out that are suitable for Halloween, a vampire bat, a pumpkin (of course!), a toadstool an e-coli type bug, and an amoeba, which qualifies as an undead thing, in that it reproduces by splitting in two, so sort of the same one from a million years ago is still out there…
Weird!
On the subject of things that go bump in the night…in case you’ve never explored it, there’s the Planet Goth House to look round – all sorts of science in each dark and spooky room!
