This animal is so slow that an entire ecosystem lives on its body! The sloth drifts through the canopy at barely 0.27 km/h. Algae grows across its coat, tinting it green, while moths, fungi and insects move in as tenants... How crazy is that? #sloth #rainforest #animal #nature

Did you know this tiny snail has red blood?... just like you. Almost every mollusc on Earth runs on copper-based blue blood. The ramshorn is the rebel: iron-rich haemoglobin, the very same oxygen-carrier in your veins. #insecst #snails #beautiful #nature

This baby duck may look adorable, cause it is but they are also one of nature's best pest control teams! Domestic ducks were bred from wild mallards thousands of years ago, and today they do everything from guarding rice fields to producing gourmet eggs. #ducks #birds #animals #cute

Bees aren't just yellow and black! This one is blue.. but turn it in the light and the colour can vanish to black. There's no blue pigment in most blue bees. The shimmer comes from microscopic structures bending light! #bees #blue #insects #nature

That black bird raiding your bin can out-puzzle a young child. Crows and their kin make and use tools, remember human faces for years, and seem to plan ahead. Magpies even recognise themselves in a mirror...a test most animals fail!! #birds #crows #nature #animals

Can you guess what kind of bear it is? Meet the American Black Bear. Deep in winter her heart drops to as few as 8 beats a minute, she breathes about once every 45 seconds, and she won't eat, drink or pass waste for months! #animals #bears #wildlife #nture

This is a Squirrel Monkey! They have the largest brain-to-body ratio of any primate. Bigger than humans. Relatively speaking. They live in troops of up to 500 in the Amazon and they communicate with over 25 distinct calls.

Orcas aren't whales! They're the largest dolphins on Earth... They hunt in coordinated packs, teach hunting techniques across generations, and each pod has its own unique dialect. Some flip great white sharks upside down to paralyse them... then eat only the liver. #whale #dolphin #ocean #animals

The moment a sea turtle hatches, it has one job.... reach the ocean before something eats it. Only 1 in 1,000 hatchlings makes it to adulthood. And the temperature of the sand determines their sex. Warmer nests produce females, cooler ones produce males. #turtle #nature #animals #wildlife

This is a Red-Eyed Crocodile Skink. That armoured back and dinosaur look? Yes, they're actual lizards. And yes, they really do have red rings around their eyes. They live in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia! #reptiles #skink #animals #wildlife #photography

There are 33 species of wild cat on Earth. And most of them aren't lions or tigers. This is an Ocelot. Twice the size of a house cat, dressed like a leopard, and one of the most successful predators in the Americas. #cats #wildlife #nature #animals #cute

Goannas are Australia's monitor lizards. And they've been around for 15 million years, outliving megafauna and predator competition to become one of the top reptilian hunters on the continent. The Perentie can reach 2.5 metres! #animals #reptiles #wildlife #nature #facts

The Australian King Parrot is one of the few birds where the male and female look completely different, males have a bright red head, females have a green one! Chicks are born looking like females. Males only develop that crimson head after 3 years. #birds #birb #animals #wildlife

Male Elephant Seals can weigh 4,000kg... the size of a small car. Females? Around 900kg. That's one of the biggest size differences between sexes in any mammal. That trunk-like nose isn't for smell. Males use it to amplify their roars during breeding season! #animals #nature #seal #wildlife

Meet the Galah! 🇦🇺 These pink-and-grey cockatoos are famous for hanging upside down on power lines, doing backflips in mid-air, and screaming for fun! They're so wild that calling someone a "Galah" in Australia literally means calling them a lovable idiot! #birds #birb #australia #naimlas #nature

This is a Great Skua. Also known as the pirate of the seas. It doesn't fish. It steals. It chases other seabirds mid-flight and forces them to vomit up their catch, then eats it in mid-air before it hits the water. It will also attack puffins twice its speed! #birds #nature #animals #wildlife

At some point in history... this was a reality. The Giant Crocodile that hunted dinosaurs! This thing was up to 12 metres long and 8.5 tonnes. Bigger than a T. rex. It lurked in swamps and ambushed dinosaurs that came to drink.

The Goliath Beetle is one of the heaviest insects on Earth. Larvae can weigh 100 grams, more than a small bird. Adults are smaller but still massive. Their elytra patterns can look painted by hand. And despite the size, they can fly! #insects #nature #animal #beetle #macro

The Sacred Scarab was worshipped in ancient Egypt as a symbol of resurrection and the sun god Khepri. Egyptians watched dung beetles roll balls of dung across the sand and saw it as a mirror of the sun moving across the sky! #nature #insects #animals

Clownfish aren't born male or female. They're born undifferentiated, then the largest in a group becomes female and the second largest becomes male. If the female dies, the male becomes female. That's just one fish. There are over 34,000 species. And the diversity is wild. #fish #ocean #nature

Triangle head = venomous. Right? Wrong. Many harmless snakes flatten their heads when threatened to mimic vipers. And several deadly elapids (like cobras and mambas) have rounded heads. Color rules don't work either. "Red on yellow, kill a fellow"? Fails outside the US.

The Bluespine Unicornfish has a horn growing out of its forehead. Not a spike. An actual bony protrusion that develops as it matures. And it doesn't use it to fight. It's used for display. Both males and females grow one! #fish #ocean #nature #scuba

The Red-Eared Slider is the most traded reptile on Earth — and one of the world's worst invasive species. Originally from the Mississippi River basin, it's now established on every continent except Antarctica. #snakes #reptiles #turtle #photography

The Saber-Tooth Tiger wasn't actually a tiger. It wasn't even closely related to modern tigers. Smilodon evolved separately and went extinct around 10,000 years ago. Its iconic 18cm fangs were so fragile that one bad bite could shatter them! #casts #tigers #animals #nature #wildlife

Have you ever wondered what's the biggest canine? The Gray Wolf is the biggest of them all, up to 80kg in the largest subspecies. They hunt in packs, communicate with over 21 distinct vocalisations, and can travel 50km in a single night. #dogs #wolf #animals #wildlife #nature

Meet an angry rattlesnake! Their rattle is made of hollow keratin segments that knock against each other when shaken, up to 90 times per second. Each time the snake sheds, it adds a new segment. So you can't actually tell a snake's age by counting them! #snakes #reptiles #wild #nature

This is a Lyretail Anthias... one of the most colourful reef fish in the ocean. And like many wrasses, it changes sex during life. Born female, the dominant one becomes male! #fish #ocean #animals #scuba

The Painted Turtle is the most widespread native turtle in North America. And it has a superpower most reptiles don't. It can survive being frozen solid. Hatchlings can spend their entire first winter buried in ice!! #reptiles #turtles #animals #wild

Coyotes are the only large predator that has expanded its range during human civilisation. While wolves and big cats retreated, coyotes spread from the American Southwest to every state except Hawaii... and now thrive inside cities like Chicago and New York! #dogs #coyotes #animals #wildlife #wolf

Snakes smell with their tongues. Each flick collects air particles that go straight to a sensory organ in the roof of their mouth. That green viper? Eyelash Viper... venomous, ambush hunter, sits motionless for days waiting for prey. #snakes #reptiles #animals #photography