Peacock Mantis Shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus)

The peacock mantis shrimp has the most interesting eyes anywhere in the animal kingdom. If you don’t believe me, ask The Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Bicolor Poison Frog (Phyllobates bicolor)

Some frogs will move their young from pond to pond or up trees to small pools of water in bromeliads. They do this by sticking them on their back and carrying them one-by-one to where they need to go.

This process can take a long time, so these frogs don’t see many movies until their brood has grown up.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus)

“Yo pretty snakiess ’round the worldss

Got a weird thingss to show yass

So tell all the lil snakeletss

Tell your brothersss, your sistersss and your mammasss too

‘Cause we’re about to go downss

And youss knows just whatss to do

Wave your tonguesss in the air like yousss don’t care

Glide by the peoplesss as they startsss to looksss and staresss

Do your squeezesss, do your squeezesss, do your squeezesss quick mammasss

Come snakeletsss tell me what’s the wordsss

Wordssssss upssssss.”

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.