Nature's beauty can originate from the most unlikely places. Take leech cocoons, the sacks in which leeches lay their eggs. They have an incredible solid-foam surface, as the image below shows.
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All but three land mammal species living on New Zealand today were brought there by modern humans, beginning around 800 years ago - and all three of those native mammal species are bats. But a newly discovered bat fossil suggests that there may be more species hiding in the isle's ancient rock. Perhaps the mammal-poor islands once had a far more batty past.