
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.
If you’re going to get lost in someone’s eyes, let it be the golden-tailed gecko’s.
It can live to more than 100 years and has a primitive third eye on the top of its head.
Sometimes nature just gets it right.
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.
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.
Meet Creatonotos gangis.
While they’re usually known for their unique looks, not many people know about the ribbon eels bizarre mode of reproduction.
With protruding fangs and taste for corpses, the diminutive Muntjac deer cuts an eerie figure in the forests of Indonesia and southern Asia.
Nicknamed the ocean’s vacuum cleaners, sea pigs are more than just a pretty face.
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.