But it’s not all bipeds. You can also read about a foot-high cone-shaped slime monster that startled an Albany woman looking outside her window in 1958, and which turned out to be slime mold growing ...

These geckos have adapted their webbed feet not only to help them stay atop, but to bury beneath the dunes of the Namib Desert. Strictly nocturnal lizards, they spend the day in self-dug burrows ...