Chlidonias

trilobite larva (Platerodrilus sp)

a female net-winged beetle from Mt. Kinabalu. You can see the tiny head protruding from the front of the carapace.
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a female net-winged beetle from Mt. Kinabalu. You can see the tiny head protruding from the front of the carapace.
 
Wow. Really cool. I didn't knew that those kind of animals still exist.

For me, it has a little "Jurrasic Park" touch...:)
 
you should go to Borneo. You can see elephants there (but not giraffes).

The following photos show how big trilobite larvae are, what they look like side-on, what they look like upside-down, and the cool way they curl up for defence and then stay like that even when righted. Notice the sucking disc on the rear of the body too, which they can use in a sort of caterpillar-looping way when moving. Very very cool critters (these photos are of three different individuals I think). Oh, also they are bioluminescent! I'm not sure about this species, but I found one in Sumatra that I first thought was a firefly until I got closer.
 

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