The Bizarre and Beautiful Gallery was one of the original exhibit areas when the Aquarium opened in 1999. With new technology, new display cases and new animals available, Aquarium biologists completely reconstructed and expanded the gallery to be bigger and more bizarre. It's filled with more than 20 species of the world's most weird and wonderful aquatic animals.

One of the most popular features of the old gallery is back and displayed better than ever. A Giant Pacific octopus is on display in a new multi-dimensional, 360 degree, see-through aquarium where it can demonstrate its amazing ability to squeeze into exceptionally small areas.

The Bizarre and Beautiful Gallery also features sea horses, frogfish and yellow boxfish, among many other species, in nearly 12,000-gallons of water. Visitors will also marvel at the Japanese spider crabs that usually dwell in the dark cold waters of Asia and are rarely seen.

Other species featured in the NEW Bizarre and Beautiful Gallery include:

• Grunt sculpins
• Pacific spiny lumpsuckers
• Turtle crabs
• Painted greenlings
• Decorated war bonnets
• Spotted garden eels
• Elephant nose fish

You've met them in the Bizarre and Beautiful Gallery. Now feature them on your computer desktop! They are some of the new weird and wondrous creatures at Newport Aquarium. CLICK HERE to download your favorite today.