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Meet Extatosoma tiaratum, the giant prickly stick insect with leaf-like camouflage, thorny females, and seed-like eggs that can attract ants.
Meet orchid bees, colorful tropical pollinators whose males gather scent compounds and store them in enlarged hind legs for courtship displays.
Explore Bocydium globulare, the Brazilian treehopper with globe-tipped projections, a sap-sucking beak, and intriguing questions about its unusual shape.
Discover Madagascar's giraffe weevil, a red-and-black leaf-rolling beetle whose males have exceptionally long neck-like forebodies.
Meet the dead leaf butterfly, Kallima inachus, whose brown wing undersides resemble a fallen leaf while the upper surfaces reveal brilliant colors.
Discover how Greta oto's transparent wings combine sparse scales and microscopic surface structures that reduce glare and let light pass through.
Meet Madagascar's comet moth, Argema mittrei, and explore its long hindwing tails, feathery antennae, unusual cocoon, and brief adult life.
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Explore the atlas moth's enormous patterned wings, snake-like wing tips, hungry caterpillar stage, and short adult life powered by stored energy.
Discover the rosy maple moth's pink-and-yellow colors, leaf-eating caterpillar, and surprising adult life without feeding.
Meet the elephant hawk-moth, a pink-and-olive night visitor whose large caterpillar reveals bold eyespots when disturbed.
Discover why Cassiopea jellyfish rest upside down, how algae inside their tissues share food, and why these animals also capture tiny prey.
Discover why comb jellies shimmer with rainbow colors, how their comb rows move them, and why that reflected light differs from bioluminescence.
Meet the flower hat jelly, a coastal hydrozoan with colorful tentacles, a patterned bell, and a life that includes resting near the seabed.