Most of us don’t grasp the variety of animals species that inhabit the Earth today, and some even get surprised as they find out there are some cool animals they haven’t heard of before. But seriously now – out of 1,367,555 identified non-insect animal species that live on Earth today, how do you expect to know every single one of them? To put it into perspective, this number represents only 1% of all animal species that have ever lived! Not to mention the depths of our Oceans, where there’s probably even more weird-looking animals waiting to be discovered.
Scientists themselves keep observing new species every year and admit that modern science is not familiar with all of the strange animals existing today. This leaves room to such unique and even bizarre discoveries collected in this post! Inspired by Reddit, we put together a selection of such unheard-of creatures and weird animals as a Dumbo Octopus, Pink Fairy Armadillo, Star-Nosed Mole, and Aye-Aye.
The last one, Aye-Aye, deserves a paragraph of his own, not only because it’s a weird animal, but also of its unique foraging method, called percussive foraging. That means that the Aye-Aye taps on wood to locate grubs by the sound of a hollow tree trunk, then gnaws the wood to make a hole from which then, using his elongated middle finger, he extracts out the grub and eats it. The other most known animal to forage this way is a woodpecker. In other words, Aye-Aye is probably one of the coolest animals there is.
Scroll down below to get acquainted with the strangest animals there is, and consider yourself warned as not all of them are super cute and fluffy!
Pink Fairy Armadillo
Image credits: reddit | wikipedia
Aye-aye
Image credits: animalsadda.com
The Maned Wolf
Image credits: imgur
Tufted Deer
Image credits: zoochat
Dumbo Octopus
Image credits: interactiveoceans.washington.edu
Patagonian Mara
Image credits: zoochat
Naked Mole Rat
Image credits: extremelongevity.net
Irrawaddy Dolphin
Image credits: imgur
The Gerenuk
Image credits: Michael Despines
Dugong
Image credits: webecoist
The Babirusa
Image credits: oregonzoo.org
Lamprey
Image credits: forum.lowyat.net
The Fossa
Image credits: en.academic.ru | imgur
Star-Nosed Mole
Image credits: synapsebristol.blogspot.com
Sunda Colugo
Image credits: identi.info
Zebra Duiker
Image credits: imgur
Yeti Crab
Image credits: oceanleadership.org
Superb Bird of Paradise
Image credits: BBC Planet Earth | National Geographic
Blob Fish
Image credits: coloribus.com | monsterfishworld.com
Cantor’s Giant Soft Shelled Turtle
Image credits: wwf.panda.org
Gobi Jerboa
Image credits: tgran | wildofanimals.blogspot.com
Japanese Spider Crab
Image credits: telegraph.co.uk
