Bottle Tree

Image: bathyporeia
Pachypodium lealii

Desert plants like this are definitely my favourites. In their effort to survive the arid conditions, they end up looking like they long since succumbed to them.

Snipefish

Image: Oceana in Europe

Schnoz alert!

Crowned Nudibranch

Image: John Turnbull
Polycera capensis

Crowned in tentacles, that is.

Barking Gecko, Ptenopus

Image: Bernard DUPONT

Geckos. That bark!

Cave Cricket

Image: Gilles San Martin

What would you bring with you on an expedition into a cave system? Food? Water? A torch? A friend to talk to so you aren't driven mad by the eternal echo of solitude?

No. You need legs. Long, long legs. Legs on stilts.

Grandidier’s Baobab

Image: Bernard Gagnon
Adansonia grandidieri

Is that tree doing a handstand?

Jelly in a Jelly

You'd think it'd be difficult to put a lump of jelly into a jelly-bag. Wouldn't it all slip and slide? Not to mention squidge and squash,

Turns out it's actually extremely easy. If your jelly-bag is a hungry Comb Jelly and your jelly is a delicious Comb Jelly, they'll do it all by themselves!