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An adorable yawning elephant shrew!
(Photos Steve Rawlins)
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Gliding lizards are real-life dragons! They have modified ribs that extend into a wing membrane!
(Photos Yingyod Lapwong)
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A new species of crab that's purple with glowing yellow eyes has been discovered. It's called Geosesarma dennerle.
(Photo Chris Lukhapu)
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Budgett's frog or the wide-mouthed frog from South America. They are very aggressive & make a loud screeching sound.
(Photos Joel Sartore)
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Baby pangolins are carried on their mothers' tails. If threatened, she'll tuck the baby safely under her belly.
(Photo Suzi Eszterhas)
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The bat hawk can be found in Africa & Southeast Asia. This stunning creature is well adapted to hunting bats.
(Photos Gary Albert)
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The argonaut is a pelagic octopus with a shell! Females grow to 10cm & their shell grows to 30cm. However, males are just 2cm long.
(Photos Bernd Hofmann, Thibault Delsahut)
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The aardwolf eats only insects and can devour up to 300,000 termites in a single night!
(Photo Ahbleza_513)
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Tuataras are not lizards, but the last surviving species of an order of reptiles that flourished 200 million years ago.
(Photos KeresH)
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The extraordinary caterpillar of the fruit-piercing moth, found in West Bengal, India.
(Photo Arabinda Pal)
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King of Saxony bird-of-paradise from New Guinea has two extremely long head plumes reaching 50cm (more than twice the length of its body).
(Photos Tim Laman, Jon Irvine)
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Viper dogfish (Trigonognathus kabeyai) is a type of shark from the deep-sea. They can eject their jaws out of their mouths to catch prey.
(Photos Brynn Devine)
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The spiny flower mantis.
(Photo Cathy Keifer)
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The pied bat or badger bat is endemic to western & central Africa. It is threatened by habitat loss.
(Photos Jakob Fahr)
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The beautiful Himalayan monal.
(Photos Aditya Chavan)
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The ruff is a strange looking bird from Norway.
(Photo nordfold)
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The amazing antennae of a glowworm beetle (Phengodidae sp.)
(Photo Luisa Marina López Arias)
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Sea bunnies are molluscs. The 'ears' are actually rhinophores- organs that help it sense chemicals in the water.
(Photos Aya Channel)
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