A recently videotaped caterpillar bears an uncanny resemblance to bigwig Donald Trump's hair.

2012 was a pretty epic year for visual trickery. We stared through telescopes, transfixed by Venus' cosmic trick of the light; gaped in disbelief at a Rubik's Cube that wasn't; and watched with morbid curiosity as celebrities transformed into grotesque mutations of their former selves.

Many of the creatures that lived in the seas half a billion years ago were far too soft to leave behind many fossils. But their footprints remain, and one of the most striking finds is a giant, predatory sea millipede.