We know they kind of look and sound like a fancy dessert, but you won't find Little Egg Cowries on a dinner plate any time soon. In fact, you'll have a hard time finding them anywhere, because these spotty little sea creatures are masters of disguise. Through a process known as 'alimentary homochromy', they can change the colour, patterns, and shape of their flesh to perfectly mimic that of the coral and sea sponges around them.

Can you spot the snow leopard in this picture? If you were its prey, you'd already be dead.

Camouflage win.

Wait, still can't find it? Look here.

This is a trilobite beetle, found in lowland forests across Southeast Asia and India. Male and female trilobite beetles look so different from each other, that the only way researchers know they've found a pair from the same species is if they catch them mating!

A new study involving researchers from UNSW Science has finally proved dingoes aren't a subspecies and actually belong to an entirely different group of predators than dogs and wolves. Welcome to the phylogenetic tree, Canis dingo! Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.12134/abstract

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Are you superstitious of the number 13? Some people are so extreme, it's an actual phobia called triskaidekaphobia. Weird.

This might change your perspective on owls

At first glance, this photo looks like a stunning Scarlet Macaw. Look closer. This species isn’t Ara macao, it’s Homo sapiens. If you look closely, you can see her right hand as the claw, her left arm wrapped over her head to look like the head and the beak. Her left leg is outstretched to serve as the tail, while her right leg is curled up on the post. The bright green eye is painted on her forehead.

Artist Johannes Stoetter spent a month planning and executing this amazing photograph. For four hours, he painstakingly painted the model’s body with breathable paint in order to create the the beautiful details. ...