REAL CREATURES. VIRTUAL REALITY. A BIGGER WORLD.
Step Inside the Habitat!
Shrink down. Explore a bigger world.
Tony's Creepy Crawly Zoo 2.0 puts you about two inches tall inside the places you would normally only peer into. Explore 30+ immersive encounters with real animals, walk through the Dan Capps insect collection, then head outdoors into garden and desert worlds built for discovery. No cartoons. No combat. Just real creatures, close enough to make you curious.
Small Animals.
Giant Adventures!
30+
Macro VR Experiences
100+
Exhibit Cases
Quest Ready
Standalone Meta Quest experience
Real Creatures
Habitats • Collections • Gardens • Desert
Inside the Experience
Three ways to explore. One idea behind all of them: change your perspective and the familiar becomes extraordinary.
Immersive Habitat
This is the heart of Tony's Creepy Crawly Zoo 2.0: you are the tiny one. Shrink to about two inches tall and step inside terrariums and habitats with real animals towering around you. Watch movement, anatomy, feeding and behavior from a perspective you could never safely experience at normal size.
Dan Capps Exhibit
Walk through more than 100 insect display cases from the extraordinary Dan Capps collection. Examine rare specimens up close, read the labels, and hear the stories behind a collection built over more than six decades. This is a museum inside virtual reality, not a live-animal area.
Outdoor Explorations
Leave the exhibit rooms and move through outdoor environments, including a Sonoran desert filled with saguaros, desert plants and wildlife, plus a Midwest garden and pond. Slow down, look closer and discover how much life is hiding in places most people walk past.
Meet the Creatures
The living residents you'll meet up close in the macro-VR experience — real animals filmed in immersive detail, from tarantulas and scorpions to frogs, snakes, and a whole freshwater pond.
Emperor Scorpion
One of the world's largest scorpions; its shell glows blue-green under UV light.
Red Knee Tarantula
Famous warm red-orange leg joints; a patient ambush predator.
Green Femur Tarantula
A ground-dweller with emerald-toned leg joints and a patient, ambush style.
Tarantula Molting
Watch a tarantula shed its entire exoskeleton in a VR time-lapse.
Whip Scorpions
Looks fierce but is harmless — no venom, no sting; maps the dark with whip-like feeler legs.
Baboon Spider
A trapdoor hunter filmed in night vision, striking from a hidden silk-hinged door.
Praying Mantis
A lightning-fast ambush hunter with a head that swivels to track its prey.
Assassin Bugs
An ambush predator with a piercing beak that liquefies its prey.
Blue Death Feigning Beetles
A powder-blue desert beetle that flips over and plays dead when startled.
Jade-Headed Buffalo Beetles
A heavy scarab built for digging, with claws that hook into any surface.
Honey Bee Hive
A living colony — watch foragers, guards, and the famous waggle dance.
Hissing Roaches
A wingless decomposer that hisses through the breathing holes along its sides.
Jungle Nymphs
A heavyweight stick insect: spiny green females and slimmer brown males.
Prickly Stick Insects
It sways like a leaf, then curls up to mimic a scorpion when threatened.
Leaf Insects
A master of camouflage that looks exactly like a living leaf.
Polyphemus Caterpillars
The bright green larva of a giant silk moth with eyespotted wings.
Poison Arrow Frogs
Brilliant blue and yellow rainforest frogs whose bold colors warn of toxicity.
Tiger Salamanders
Big amphibians whose gilled, aquatic larvae grow into land-burrowing hunters.
Fresh Water Pond
Dive beneath the surface to find tadpoles, water fleas, and diving-beetle water tigers.
Bearded Dragons
An Australian sun-lover that darkens and puffs its beard when excited.
Green Tree Monitor
A slender canopy climber with a prehensile tail and real problem-solving smarts.
Skinks
Small, glossy lizards that can drop and regrow their tails to escape.
Garter Snakes
Daylight hunters that patrol wetland edges, flicking to taste the air.
Garter & Milk Snakes
Juveniles side by side — alert garter foragers and secretive milk-snake constrictors.
Pearl Garter Snake
A rare pearly color morph of the plains garter snake.
Russian Tortoise
A sturdy little desert tortoise from Central Asia — a tiny bulldozer.
Baby Tortoises
Hatchling tortoises just beginning their very long lives.
The Dan Capps Collection
More than 100 display cases. Thousands of specimens. One remarkable lifetime of collecting. Wander the cases in VR, study the details up close, and let Dan Capps be your guide.
OUR MISSION
Excite!
Educate!
Inspire!
For 30 years, Tony's Creepy Crawly Zoo used intimate live invertebrate encounters to turn fear into fascination for over a million students. The format has changed, but the mission has not. Through immersive VR, media and My Science Diary, we keep turning curiosity into scientific literacy by giving young people a reason to look closer, ask better questions and keep exploring.
Entomology is a gateway science.
Get the VR Experience on Meta Horizon Store
Shrink down, step inside and see the natural world from a perspective you have never had before.
Get it on Meta Horizon Store
Keep Exploring with My Science Diary
Curiosity should not stop when the headset comes off. Record observations, ask questions, design experiments and build the habit that turns wondering into science.
Explore My Science Diary