Breathing Easy
The runner-up in the “life up close” category, this photo shows an anole lizard deploying a bubble to help it breathe underwater, which it can do for up to 18 minutes. The lizard appears to create the bubble while exhaling, and it seems to function like a scuba device, with the lizard breathing in recycled air that contains unused oxygen. The clever adaptation is believed to help them to better evade predators on land.
