In the mountainous streams of southeastern China, a mother-to-be holds on to ... Semisulcospira egretta, named after the city bird of Xiamen, the egret, was discovered by researchers in a stream ...

Though Kenichi Ohno, 79, a resident of Miyoshi, Saitama Prefecture, outside Tokyo, shot the surreal egret photo, even his wife didn't believe him. “I just happened to capture the scene,” he said.