Osteoderms are also found in the skin of crocodiles, armadillos and some lizards.

Some of the larger species hunt birds, lizards, frogs, smaller bats or even fish.

Biologist Robert Full shares slo mo video of some captivating critters. Take a closer look at the spiny legs that allow cockroaches to scuttle across mesh and the nanobristle packed feet that let geckos to run straight up walls.

Just as the morphology and the complexity of life on earth is never ending, little embellishments and complexifications in the DNA code lead to new things like giraffes, or orchids so too, do little embellishments in the crochet code lead to new and wondrous creatures in the evolutionary tree of crochet life.