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Specimen Showcase | Marine Mad-hatter🎩
When we come across strong sunlight☀️, we cannot forget to put on some sunscreen or a hat👒. Surprisingly, just like us, some marine...

Specimen Showcase | Cookies Under the Sea
A strange, round, white and hard organism has washed up on the beach. Looking carefully, you may notice a pattern on top of it, like a...

Specimen Showcase | 📢 Musical Space Cowboys
🖌️ Kaloula pulchra (Gray, 1831), the Asiatic painted bullfrog, is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found naturally in Hong Kong and...

Specimen Showcase | Baby Launcher Toad
Many animals have become masters of camouflage, blending so well with the substrate in which they live on that they are hardly...

Specimen Showcase | The Poisonous “Revenge”☠️
You are most certainly all familiar with the terms of frogs and toads. However, do you know how to differentiate them🤔? And did you know...

Specimen Showcase | The Chosen Newt of Hong Kong
Mountain streams are an oasis for most animals foraging in the hot summer including people visiting nature; a place where you can feel...

Specimen Showcase | Colourful Characters
Chameleons are certainly some of the most amazing animals in the world! These highly specialised lizards boast a suite of unique...

Specimen Showcase | The Comedian Snake
Most people enjoy a good play or movie.🍿 While we appreciate the acting of comedians🤡, humans do not have the monopoly of it. Indeed,...

Specimen Showcase | Dragons in the Forest🐉
Have you ever dreamed of gliding from one tree to another🌴? If you did, then you may be inspired by the lizard genus 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘰...

Specimen Showcase | Super-gecko🦎
The sight of a gecko running on a vertical surface is common in Hong Kong, including within homes. Indeed, many people will welcome this...

Specimen Showcase | Social Distancing with the Chinese Cobra
Today our species on focus is as much feared than it is respected. The Chinese Cobra🐍 is one of the species that features in the set of...

Specimen Showcase | Meet the Frilled Lizard: A Real-life Dinosaur-looking Creature🦕!
Get ready to meet one of the coolest lizards on the planet – the frilled lizard🦎! Imagine walking in the Australian outback and bumping...

Specimen Showcase|The Gargantuan Python 🐍
The Burmese python, 𝘗𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 (Buhl,1820), is native to the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia with its range...

Specimen Showcase | Snake or Worm?
Appearances can sometimes be deceiving🤥. At first sight what may look like a large earthworm moving silently onto the floor through the...

Specimen Showcase|The Sea Snake that Uses its Forehead to Breathe🧘🏻♀️
While diving in the Indo-Australian Ocean, a slender object with bandings on its back catches your eye. What could it be👀? You just met...

Specimen Showcase|A Lizard with a Distinctive Tail
𝘌𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢 (Günther, 1875) is a large skink endemic to the Western Australia, Northern Territory and South Australia...


Specimen Showcase | Ocean's Precious Gem🏺
The Hawksbill Sea Turtle (𝘌𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢) 🔬 (Linnaeus, 1766) is a fascinating species playing a crucial...

Specimen Showcase | Hammerhead
Our classical view of the shape of an organism's head is round or ovoid. Some species, however, have evolved completely different shapes,...

Specimen Showcase | “Haunting” Ghost Shark
Halloween is often associated with spooky and scary stories filled with ghosts and monsters👻. Do you believe that scary looking...

Specimen Showcase | Angel in the Sea 🦈
Sharks, unfortunately, do not always have the best reputation😥, indeed only about 65 attacks are recorded annually all over the world...
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