a leafy sea dragon

Wacky Weekend: Aussie Animals

Check out these photos of bizarre animals found around Australia in the photo gallery below.

Covered in leaf-shaped appendages, the leafy sea dragon is designed to blend in with the seaweed and kelp it lives around.
Photograph by Alex Mustard, Nature Picture Library
Frilled lizards move the thin flaps of skin on their necks up and down to communicate with each other.
Frilled lizards move the thin flaps of skin on their necks up and down to communicate with each other.
Photograph by MICHAEL AND PATRICIA FOGDEN, MINDEN PICTURES