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Photos Exploring the Diversity of the World’s Most Obscure Species

The compound eyes of a cynipid wasp (unidentified species). Some insects have simple eyes in addition to compound eyes, three of which can be seen on the top of this wasp’s head.
© Tomas Rak:

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Segmentation, a distinguishing feature of the annelids is clearly visible here.
© Alexander Semenov:

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Nudibranchs, together with a huge variety of other marine mollusks, are commonly known as sea slugs (Coryphella polaris).
© Alexander Semenov:

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A jellyfish (Bougainvillia superciliris) with a hitchhiking amphipod (Hyperia galba).
© Alexander Semenov:

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The first picture about the wasp... NO, NO and NO!!!! I do not want to see this wasp in my worst nightmare. It looks like an ET! (I think I gonna have a nightmare tonight).

But thank you for the pictures, how mysterious is nature! And beautiful!
 
Feeding its chicks can be an acrobatic process for mum Passerine:

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Bird choir with three Bar-winged prinia - Beside being the organ in birds that gives them the ability to sing loudly, the syrinx is also the name given by the ancient Greeks to the Pan flute, as the nymph Syrinx, trying to escape the Pan's love, was transformed into reeds, from which Pan made his flutes.

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Photo: Taufik Ardiansyah
 
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