Top 10 Animals with the Best Camouflage

Not only can it change color and skin texture within a second, it also actively imitates the behavior and shape of venomous lionfish, sea snakes and flatfish.

The best-known camouflage icon. Using special nanocrystals in its skin, it changes color in a flash to blend into the leaves and to communicate its emotions.

Indistinguishable from a real twig or dry leaf, complete with bumps, veins and even a swaying movement as if they're blowing in the wind.

With their mottled plumage, they blend seamlessly into tree bark or a snowy tundra landscape. Often you only spot them when they suddenly open their eyes.

Its whole body, including its tail, imitates a withered, rotting leaf with jagged edges and moss-like spots. Virtually invisible on a tree trunk.

This tiny seahorse (barely 2 centimeters long) has bumps on its skin that exactly match the coral branches it spends its entire life on.

Lies flat on the seabed and adapts its skin pattern to gravel, sand or mud within seconds, while burying itself partly in the sand with its fins.

Looks eerily like a dried, curled autumn leaf with pointed projections and a dark hue, so prey walks past unsuspectingly.

Looks like an algae-covered rock on the seabed. One of the most venomous fish in the world, which swimmers accidentally step on because it can't be seen.

Changes coats by season: pure white in winter to blend into the snow, gray-brown in summer to hunt inconspicuously across the tundra.