Paul Bertner / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) mother and young, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Paul Bertner / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) male camouflaged amongst leaves, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Chien Lee / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) female mimicking wilting leaf, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Giant Octopus (Octopus dofleini) attacking a ship, 1815 copperplate engraving from Bertuch's 'Bilderbuch fur kinder' 16 plate 5. with contemporary colour. 'Colosal Polypus' (octopus) a...

Thomas Marent / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) mimicking leaves, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar

Thomas Marent / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) mimicking leaves, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar

Piotr Naskrecki / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) clinging to a twig, Madagascar

ZSSD / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) portrait, native to northern Madagascar

Chien Lee / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus), Andasibe, Madagascar

Paul Bertner / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) male camouflaged amongst leaves, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Paul Bertner / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) male camouflaged amongst leaves, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Paul Bertner / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) juvenile female, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Paul Bertner / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) female camouflaged amongst leaves, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Paul Bertner / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) male camouflaged with juvenile on branch, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Chien Lee / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) camouflaged on branch, Andasibe, Madagascar

James Christensen / Cloud-forest Fantastic-Skipper (Vettius coryna) butterfly, Mindo, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Andy Sands / Horned Frog/Leaf Hopper (Ledra aurita) largest British Homoptera seldom seen due to fantastic camouflage when at rest on branch or tree trunk, UK, Captive.

Peter Cairns / Boy reading 'Fantastic Mr Fox' book in bed, Scotland, UK, model released

Peter Cairns / Boy reading 'Fantastic Mr Fox' book in bed, Scotland, UK, model released

Thomas Marent / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus), Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar

Piotr Naskrecki / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) becomes virtually invisible thanks to its leaf-like shape, pose and coloration, they can change their color easily due to chromatophores in their ski...

Piotr Naskrecki / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) becomes virtually invisible thanks to its leaf-like shape, pose and coloration, they can change their color easily due to chromatophores in their ski...

Piotr Naskrecki / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) cleaning eyelid's transparent shield with its large, muscular tongue, Madagascar

Ingo Arndt / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) with camouflaged coloration to match tree bark, Madagascar

Ingo Arndt / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) with camouflaged coloration to match tree bark, Madagascar

Thomas Marent / Cloud-forest Fantastic-Skipper (Vettius coryna) butterfly feeding on flower nectar, Guacharo Cave National Park, Colombia

Thomas Marent / Cloud-forest Fantastic-Skipper (Vettius coryna) butterfly feeding on flower nectar, Guacharo Cave National Park, Colombia

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of mythical hydra with hand colouring by J. Chapman 1806 after engraving by Seba in his 'Treasury of Natural History' (1734). In 1735 a young Linnaeus visited Hamburg. While ther...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of mythical Papio and man-headed beast. Published in Amsterdam in 1673 by Jacob Von Meurs for Arnoldus Montanusa 'De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld' after the first book related to America b...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of mythical creature, The Su, 1627 woodblock engraving from Sebastian Munster's account of the New World from the Cosmographia. German edition of 1627 dealing with the navigation of Magel...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Gaius Plinius Secundus, army commander, naturalist and author (23AD to 25 August 79AD). Copperplate engraving from Andre Thevet's 'Portraits et vies des hommes illustres' publ Guillaume Ch...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Sea Serpents from Gesner's 'Historia Animalium', volume 4, 1558. Later hand colouring. Italic marginalia by contemporary scholar. Gessner's accounts included creatures which exist, and...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of Satyrus marinus - a sea monster or mermaid of partially human form, with old colouring. Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner reproduced thi...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Conrad Gesner (or Gessner) Swiss Natural Historian (1516-1565). His major four volume work Historiae Animalium (1551-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology. In it he summarise...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Conrad Gesner (or Gessner) Swiss Natural Historian (1516- 1565). His major four volume work Historiae Animalium (1551-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology. In it he summaris...

Pete Oxford / Fantastic Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) camouflaged on branch eastern rainforest, Madagascar

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Fantastic least gecko (Sphaerodactylus fantasticus) female, portrait, Josh'sFrogs. Captive, occurs in Caribbean.

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Fantastic least gecko (Sphaerodactylus fantasticus) female, portrait, Josh'sFrogs. Captive, occurs in Caribbean.

Andy Sands / Golden-bloomed grey longhorn beetle (Agapanthia villosoviridescens) portrait resting on leaf showing fantastic colour and striped antennae, Hertfordshire, England, UK, July