The Hercules Beatle can hold about 5 pounds on its "nose" -- and crush your finger when it gets mad
One of the guests at the butterfly garden
One of these vines in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve measured 4 km (almost 2.5 miles) long
It's the Golden Gate Bridge, Costa Rica style...
..about 150 feet above the jungle floor
This nasty creature, known as the assassin bug, sucks your blood like a mosquito and then turns around and craps a parasite in the wound--sound yummy?--but wait, it gets better; the parasite stays dormant in your system for 15-20 years, and then goes hog wild, causing your heart to expand 2-3 times its size, more or less exploding
What looks like a tree here is really the remains of one, thanks to the strangler fig, which plants itself inside the tree and breaks it apart
Don't forget to stop and smell the...er, whatevers