I’ve never seen anything like this… And you?

The Jewel caterpillar (Acraga coa), a very unusual almost translucent looking caterpillar spotted in Mexico.

After pupation, it turns into a mole :

A list of the ugliest animals in the world…

We thought that men invented yoga, but it seems to me that animals have been doing yoga for much longer…

It’s not just pictures of animals, it is moments of their lives. Such moments are not the usual sight to see, they are lightning fast. Only professionals can help us to enjoy these episodes. It is clear that these images require special hard work and incredible patience, and only the most hardy and persevering manage to make the best shots.

This crow, apparently, did not have enough adrenaline …

So she decided to ride on the back of an eagle.

it is the height of impudence!

Underwater photographer Doug Perrine travelled to Mexico’s Baja Peninsula to photograph the magnificent 50-foot-long Bryde’s whale.

Surrounded by hungry marlins and sea lions, Doug and his fellow diver, Brandon Cole, found themselves in the middle of a feeding frenzy, which allowed them to witness, and get extraordinarily close to, this act of nature.

Feeding time: No escape for dozens of sardines as they are swallowed up by a Bryde whale off Baja, California

The Bryde’s whale tracks down sardines for supper off the coast of Caba San Lucas, Mexicom

The whale clamps its jaws round some fish in this dramatic image caught by brave underwater photographer Doug Perrine

‘The marlin were a little scary too – they would use their bills to try to whack the sardines that would hide behind our necks, under our arms, and between our legs.

‘When the whale hit my rubber fins, I just tumbled down its side. ‘It sped past with its throat pleats expanding to take in a swimming pool sized gulp of sardines and sea water.’

‘As the whale pushed the water out of its mouth the air was forced out with the water. This produced jets of white bubbles that make the whales look like fire-breathing dragons.’

The photographer looks up at the Bryde’s whale as he gets up close and personal with this magnificent animal

Bryde’s whale expels air and water from mouth through baleen plates after swallowing the sardines

The Bryde’s whale can grow up to 50ft long and is seen here off the coast of Cabo San Lucas in Mexico

A Bryde’s whale narrowly misses photographer Brandon Cole after making a sudden turn to avoid hitting a marlin feeding on a bait ball of sardines off the coast of Caba San Lucas in Mexico

Throat pleats of a Bryde’s whale expand as it engulfs part of a school of sardines off the coast of Caba San Lucas in Mexico

No, it’s not aliens from other planets. These are the "handsome" dwell in the depths of the oceans and seas on the planet Earth.

Known under the name of Polychaetes (polychaete worms), these creatures live under tremendous pressure, where sunlight never penetrates.

The age old feud between cats and dogs seems to have been put to one side as Lilica the German Shepherd becomes inseparable from her feline friends Liza, Viki and male Muro.

But what makes this friendship even more unusual is as well as being cats, the cubs are also wild lynxes.

Lilica is helping to teach the little cubs how to fend for themselves in the wild as part of a conservation project in the National Park Velka Fatra, Slovakia.

German shepherd Lilica met as part of a scheme called Return of Lynxes aimed at trying to reintroduce the cats into the wild after numbers suffered from hunting.

German shepherd Lilica has become inseparable from her feline friends Liza, Viki and male Muro.

German shepherd Lilica was introduced to his feline friends as part of a conservation project in the National Park Velka Fatra, Slovakia.

The lynx cubs know they can have some fun with mild mannered Lilica.

Little lynx cubs are being taught a thing or two about life in the wild from Lilica.

Lilica is teaching the cubs Liza, Viki and male Muro about how to fend for themselves in the wild as part of the conservation scheme.

Despite the difference in size, the young lynxes are not afraid of having a bit of play time fun with Lilica.

The life of a Hercules beetle.

The last pictures are sad.

Stern upbringing by a bear.

The penalty … and then reconciliation Cutie.

Romantic photo collection from the animal world, devoted to the upcoming spring.

You may be familiar with these animals, but maybe not their range of colors. No need get your eyes checked. Nature’s just messing with you.

Blue Lobster

All-Black Penguins

Very little is known about all-black penguins because they are extremely rare.

Purple Squirrel

Percy and Connie Emert of Jersey Shore, PA caught a purple squirrel in February, 2012.

Pink Turtle

"Caramel Pinks" are a color morph of red-eared sliders.

Pink Katydid

The naturally green katydids become pink due to a condition called erythrism.

Neon Blue Garter Snake

Wild populations of these brightly-colored fellows exist in San Francisco.

White Peacock

This peacock is not an albino; it is a rare white variant of its normally colorful counterpart.

Pink Bottlenose Dolphin

In 2009, this pink dolphin was discovered in a Louisiana lake.

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Cat put the chill on dog pretty fast.

A chance enconuter. A ferocious clash. A spider and a wasp fighting for their very lives. It’s not often we get the opportunity to see a vicious death battle in the insect world, but that’s exactly what we have for you here.

The spider pictured here was innocently hanging out on the side of a wall when a wasp spotted it and approached. The wasp dove for the spider and attacked it, whereupon both animals dropped to the floor.

This is the start of the battle, and the spider seems to have the advantage. However, while it might be physically overpowering the wasp, the wasp has a weapon, using its sting to inject the spider with venom.

The wasp is starting to escape from the spider’s grasp, but look at the way the spider’s legs are gripping the insect tight. They are fighting for their lives, and both know it.

The spider is likely to be a Larinioides sclopetarius, a species of orb weaving spider. Orb weavers make the classic round webs we see in gardens, though they’re often found above and around water. From its appearance, it seems that the wasp is a yellowjacket.

The dynamics of the situation have changed, the wasp has managed to get the spider on its back. Clicking of this picture you can see a silken thread still attached to the latter’s leg.

Fights between spiders and wasps aren’t that rare. Yellowjackets are often killed by orb weavers when they stumble into their webs. But it’s not all one way — some wasp species not only prey on spiders but also use them as hosts for their larvae.

When certain species, such as spider wasps, need to lay their eggs, they paralyze a spider with their venom. They then lay their egg on the spider’s abdomen where it starts to develop. When the egg hatches, the wasp larva will feed on the still-living spider as its first meal – killing it in the process.

Here the wasp is giving another solid bite to the spider, its stinger up in the air. It’s difficult to say who has the upper hand — the deadly embrace, at this point, looking pretty evenly matched as both combatants struggle on their backs.

In this close-up, you can see a liquid of some sort near the wasp’s mouth. It is hard to say whether it is venom from one of the combatants or from an injury.

Wasps generally eat prey as larvae and nectar as adults. This adult wasp may have been looking for a place to lay eggs as there was no feeding involved after the spider died. (So there you have it, Spidey lost! Read on to see it in its death throes.)

The fatal stroke given, the spider’s legs start to curl into the death position.

Battered and beaten, the corpse is left alone. Dazed and exhausted, the wasp flew off about five minutes after the battle ended.

This last image is a close-up of the spider, showing its chelicerae, or mouthparts. Hard-fought battles like this occur throughout the animal kingdom, and while we’ll never know the true purpose of this vicious battle, it stands as an example of the brutality often found in the natural world. It seems the old saying is true: Nature really is ‘red in tooth and claw’.

Ant Stories by Russian photographer Andrew Pavlov.

The newly discovered dwarf chameleon species represent striking cases of miniaturization and microendemism and suggest the possibility of a range size-body size relationship in Malagasy reptiles.

  The newly described Brookesia micra reaches a maximum snout-vent length in males of 16 mm, and its total length in both sexes is less than 30 mm, ranking it among the smallest amniote vertebrates in the world. With a distribution limited to a very small islet, this species may represent an extreme case of island dwarfism.