Wonders and Oddities of Nature

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Distinct habitat harboring extreme adaptations like hydrothermal vents (5)
• Spiny egg-laying mammal with a slender snouted beak (7)
• Madagascan lemur with an abnormally skinny tap-tapping finger, when doubled (3)
• Blind aquatic salamander adapted to pitch-black caves (3)

Down

• Octopus known for impersonating lionfish and flatfish (5)
• Desert optical illusion produced by sharp thermal gradients (6)
• Lizard clinging to glass via microscopic van der Waals forces (5)

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