Category: Creatura with Bec Crew

Creatura with Bec Crew

Sunda pangolin mum with her pangopup

Pangolins are desired for their unique keratinous scales and now all species are now threatened with extinction

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Flat-headed cat, the world’s most threatened felines

This water-loving cat is one of the rarest felines in the world

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Attack of the parasitic face-huggers

There’s a little something eating your face: scientists would love to warn fish shackled with ‘face-huggers’.

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Twelve-wired bird of paradise

It takes seven years for this beauty to develop its ornate plumage

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Elaborate fins of the ribbonfish

Up to 2m long the ribbonfish is an elegant deep-sea creature

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Lord Howe Island stick insect

The Lord Howe Island phasmid is the world’s rarest insect and lives only on a remote sea stack

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Lutungs shine with their coloured coats

These South-east Asian monkeys sport striking shiny coats

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Hooded pitohui, one of the world’s only toxic birds

This is one of the only known birds to be toxic. Its feathers contain one of the most potent toxins known to science – but why?

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Corolla ovate a rare sea butterfly

This tiny sea butterfly spends its days floating in the ocean, feeding on plankton

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Flying dragon lizard a true gliding reptile

Like something out of a fiction novel, the flying dragon lizard is one of the only true gliding reptiles