Why fly when you can shuffle? This curious bat prefers the ground
Bats are the only mammals on Earth that can use their own power to fly. Sure, flying squirrels, lemurs, and possums exist, but like this airborne frog, they’re faking it.
Bats are the only mammals on Earth that can use their own power to fly. Sure, flying squirrels, lemurs, and possums exist, but like this airborne frog, they’re faking it.
We’re counting down the days, so what better time to talk about this strange little insect, which looks like the Christmas edition of a regular katydid.
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.
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.