Camouflage Gecko
Now you see it ... the Cape Melville leaf-tailed gecko from northern Australia blends in with the boulder fields where it lives.
Amoeboid Protist
Spiculosiphon oceana, a bizarre single-celled protist that builds a shell out of the discarded skeletal pieces of marine sponges.
Spiculosiphon Whole
Although it is only made of one cell, spiculosiphon grows to be 1.6 inches (4 cm) long.
Clean Room Microbes
Tersicoccus phoenicis, a microbe found independently in separate clean rooms. This microbe survives all manner of sterilization attempts.
Tinkerbell Fairyfly
Tinkerbella nana, a parasitoid wasp that measures only 0.00984 inches (250 micrometers) long and lives in Costa Rica.
Transparent Snail
A domed land snail Zospeum tholussum in the Lukina jama-Trojama cave system in Croatia.
Clear Snails
The snail lacks pigmentation and has no eyes, thanks to its pitch-black cave habitat.
Snails in Cave
The transparent domed land snail moves only a few centimeters a week at most, mostly grazing in circles.
