On a tenting journey in Queensland, Australia, insect researcher James Tweed snapped a shot of what stands out as the world’s fluffiest beetle (Excastra albopilosa). Its hairs are particularly thick across the high half of its crimson and black physique, and should have developed to imitate a fungal an infection, making it seem unpalatable to predators.
Deep within the tropical rainforest of Indonesia, researchers noticed this majestic male Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) named Rakus smearing a chewed-up plant that’s generally…