5) Spiny Flower Mantis
These critters are only about 4 cm long but they’re voracious cannibals. The older they get, the more likely they are to chow down on a colleague. Their weird shape is to help them blend in with flowers, and the female’s egg sack can be three times as big as its own body. Aliens basically.
Spiny Flower Mantis or Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi are of African descent and are capable of killing prey many times their own size. There’s quite a bit of variety in their family as you can see from the two pics. In a way they’re kind of beautiful?
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