With colours like that, you wouldn’t think the squarespot anthias needs much else to catch the eye. But this fish goes all out, wearing an almost perfectly shaped mirror on its body.
It’s not like the Australian magpie isn’t great. Australian magpies are elegant and hyper-smart and we love them. But let’s be honest – they’ve got nothing on the common green magpie when it comes to sheer beauty.
Of all the insects you could encounter in the forests of Thailand, this has to be one of the strangest.
I mean, look at this little guy, sitting up all by itself. It looks so proud, so determined. While all the other frogs are sitting around like frogs, the spotted litter frog has figured out how to sit like a real gentleman. Wheel a tiny dining table in and we’re done.
“All looks, no leg muscles,” is what a self-deprecating red-naped trogon might put on its dating app profile.
If fish had beds, this one woke up on the wrong side of hers. Meet Helfrich’s dartfish, a small marine fish with attitude to burn.
Many humans gravitate towards food that has a kick, but this is (understandably) a complete anomaly in the animal kingdom.
The black-shouldered kite is as beautiful as it is deadly.
Sporting the colours of freshly molten lava, the dusky lory almost doesn’t look real with its bright orange features breaking through all that sooty black.
As cute as a button until it unleashes a milky green stink bomb, the Sunda stink badger really lives up to its name.