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Creatura with Bec Crew

The jewel-eyed gecko with a foul-smelling secret

If you’re going to get lost in someone’s eyes, let it be the golden-tailed gecko’s.

Creatura with Bec Crew

It’s not a lizard or a dinosaur – the tuatara is something else entirely

It can live to more than 100 years and has a primitive third eye on the top of its head.

Creatura with Bec Crew

This bewhiskered “Fairy Crab” is the tiniest teddy bear of the ocean

Sometimes nature just gets it right.

Creatura with Bec Crew

This stunning hydromedusa looks like a tiny rocket ship

You think you’ve seen it all and then the ocean dishes up something like this. Meet Pandea conica – a tiny space alien on Earth that’s so rare, it’s hardly ever seen, let alone photographed.

Creatura with Bec Crew

This lovely milky frog will someday learn to fly

It might look like something you’d buy at your local corner store, but this adorable frog has something far more interesting going on than looking like a perfectly made piece of chocolate.

Creatura with Bec Crew

This incredible moth is one of Australia’s strangest insects

Meet Creatonotos gangis.

Creatura with Bec Crew

Every single ribbon eel on the planet is born male – here’s why

While they’re usually known for their unique looks, not many people know about the ribbon eels bizarre mode of reproduction.

Creatura with Bec Crew

This tiny vampire deer has fewer chromosomes than a fruit fly

With protruding fangs and taste for corpses, the diminutive Muntjac deer cuts an eerie figure in the forests of Indonesia and southern Asia.

Creatura with Bec Crew

Sea pigs are the aliens of the sea

Nicknamed the ocean’s vacuum cleaners, sea pigs are more than just a pretty face.

Creatura with Bec Crew

Meet the incredible trilobite beetle of SE Asia

If weird insects are your thing, feast your eyes on the weirdest of them all – the trilobite beetle, a creature that looks like it’d be more at home with the dinosaurs than in the forests of present day.

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