Mark Jones / Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis) large male testing ground for scent with specialized forked tongue, Komodo National Park, Komodo Island, Indonesia

Tim Laman / Four-eyed fish (Anableps sp) in very shallow water on mudflats adjacent to mangroves. Caroni Bird Sanctuary, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. These fish have specialized eyes divided into two parts for...

Tim Laman / Four-eyed fish (Anableps sp) in very shallow water on mudflats adjacent to mangroves. Caroni Bird Sanctuary, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. These fish have specialized eyes divided into two parts for...

Piotr Naskrecki / Spider (Eriauchenius sp) specialized as a predator of other spiders, considered a living fossil as was originally described from fossil material, and only subsequently found living in Madagascar

Chris Newbert / Harlequin Shrimp (Hymenocera picta) paralyzing a Sea Star by injecting venom with its specialized stinging arms, 30 feet deep, Papua New Guinea

Tui De Roy / Frailejones (Espeletia hartwegiana) specialized composite plant growing in Paramo Del Angel, a high elevation wet Paramo Grassland, Paramo Del Angel, northern Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Frailejones (Espeletia hartwegiana) a specialized composite plant growing in the high elevation, wet Paramo Grassland habitat, Paramo Del Angel, Northern Andes, Ecuador