I might have become a biologist if we had the internet and so many pictures of colorfully bizarre animals when I was a kid. Probably less lucrative than working in pharma but nature is pretty cool at a macroscopic level too.
Here is a humble caterpillar (Phyllodes imperialis) that evolved a little Mexican-professional-wrestling-mask on its back, so when it's threatened it scrunches up, protecting its head and revealing it's super-powered alter ego.
(The white stuff is apparently supposed to be teeth but they don't work for me.)
via PZ Myers
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