Discover these 40 bizarre animals with incredible shapes and colors that inhabit our planet, and of which you had no idea!
You might think you’ve seen everything in the world, whether on the internet, on TV, or in real life, but there will always be eye-blinking wonders. And even if you’re a big fan of the animal world, there’s no way you’ve covered every species (there are millions of them) on Earth to date. By the time you read this, new species may have been discovered! So there’s always something new to see in nature, even if some animals are endangered…
We’ve already introduced you to 7 truly bizarre ocean creatures and 11 witch-finder animals with real superpowers – and, as we said, there’s an infinite number. So here’s a list of 40 weird and wacky animals and insects that can be found on our planet or at the bottom of our oceans. Would you like to adopt one in particular?
1. Batfish with red lips
2. The skate shark
3. The panda ant or « velvet ant
4. The penis snake
5. The Umbonia Spinosa
6. Lowland zebra tenrec or « little porcupine
7. Moro sphinx or « hummingbird sphinx
8. Glaucus atlanticus (Atlantic glaucus)
9. Praying mantis shrimp
10. The Venezuelan poodle butterfly
11. The pacu
12. Bathynomus (very large marine isopod)
13. The saiga (antelope)
14. The Atheris (bush viper)
15. The blue parrot fish
16. Indian purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis)
17. The Nile Shoebill
18. The Okapi
19. The Narwhal or « unicorn of the sea
20. The Spiky Moloch or « Horned Devil
21. Scotoplanes or « sea pigs
22. Truncated armadillo or Argentine armadillo
23. The maned wolf
24. The red deer
25. The Grimpoteuthis or « Dumbo Octopus
26. The Mara or « Patagonian Hare
27. Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus)
28. The Irrawaddy dolphin
29. Waller’s gazelle or « giraffe antelope » or « gerenuk
30. The Dugong
31. The babiroussas
32. Lamprey (petromyzontid)
33. The fossa or « fierce cryptoproct ».
34. The star-nosed condylure (North American mole)
35. The blobfish
36. Japan’s giant spider crab
37. Birds of Paradise (Paradisaeidae)
38. Sunda Colugo (flying lemur)
39. The giant softshell or « Cantor’s turtle
Scientists themselves continue to discover new species every year, and admit that modern science doesn’t know all the animals that exist.